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Table is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed – MySQL / MariaDB / Percona

October 21, 2019
General Linux
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Today we'll look into repairing a crashed Wordpress database table. The error message could appear in one of many ways, some of them below: [crayon-5e286555953d2752636316/] A quick look at the…

Install NodeJS on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04

October 1, 2019
Ubuntu
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We'll be looking into how to install Node.js on Ubuntu versions 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04. We'll install Node.js with NVM (Node Version Manager). This lets us install any version…

How to install GeoIP module on Ubuntu for NGINX

September 20, 2019
Ubuntu
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Today we'll be looking at how to install the GeoIP module on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS and 19.04 for NGINX. You may come across an error like the following…

How to install Ruby and RubyGems on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 19.04

September 18, 2019
Ubuntu
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Today we'll be looking at how to install Ruby and RubyGems on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.04. The installation steps listed in this article will work for both versions…

Create new database in MongoDB

August 27, 2019
CentOS
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Today we'll look at how to create a new database in MongoDB. Connect to mongod via the following line, replace your credentials [crayon-5e286555967bd946395628/] If you're successfully authenticated then you'll see…

SSH connection takes too long to respond/connect

August 23, 2019
CentOS
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Has an SSH connection taken too long to return the password prompt? There are two possible fixes to it. There are two possible ways to fix this, First, disable Reverse…

530 Login incorrect – ProFTPD

August 1, 2019
General Linux
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We updated an old server recently and the ProFTP server started throwing this error "530 Login incorrect" and wouldn't let us in. We looked at the usual culprits, reset passwords,…

Install MySQL / MariaDB on Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)

July 22, 2019
Windows 10
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Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) let's you do a lot of interesting stuff inside Windows, biggest of which is installing Linux applications. We'll look into installing MariaDB on Ubuntu running…

Logging RSYNC output to file

November 9, 2018
General Linux
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Logging RSYNC output to file can be cumbersome but useful at times. Cumbersome because if you're transferring a large number of files then the log file becomes intelligible but useful in…

Mount ZFS Pools on Boot

September 21, 2017
CentOS
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We recently ran into a snag with a new ZFS installation, the darn thing wouldn't mount the pools we created on boot. The solution turned out to be pretty straight forward, Issue the following at shell and reboot to test: