Logging RSYNC output to file
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…
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Mount ZFS Pools on Boot
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:
Mount exfat partitions on Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu isn't bundled with exfat read/write support out of the box, scouring the internet revealed we needed to install two packages. [crayon-5ce0b2336cf56785303931/] This threw a very ugly error [crayon-5ce0b2336cf5e914060065/] Turns out…
Install Homebrew – Mac OS Sierra / El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks
Homebrew is a package manager similar to Yum on CentOS and Apt-get on Ubuntu. You may at times need packages that are available on other Linux distributions that are not, out of the…
503 Guru Meditation Error / Backend Unavailable – Varnish
503 Guru Meditation Error / Backend Unavailable ugh. This error is the worst, it could mean so many things. Luckily in our case, we were getting this error when we…
Install Mariadb 10.1 – Ubuntu 16.04
Installing the latest stable version of Mariadb, v. 10.1, is pretty straight forward. Start off by heading over to the repo configurator and getting the links for your version of Ubuntu:…
Add / Modify Static IP Address on Ubuntu 16.04
To add /modify the static IP address of your ubuntu installation follow the steps below: Find out which interface is connected to the internet, issue the following: [crayon-5ce0b2336e43f526077241/] In this…
Install Apache & Python on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
We'll be using a freshly installed server with Ubuntu Server 16.04, Ubuntu Desktop should also work. By default Ubuntu 16.04 ships with Python 3 but you won't be able to…
Install Linux Bash – Windows 10
The Windows anniversary update is finally out, this is good news. This means the new Windows Subsystem for Linux aka BASH is now available for non-Windows Insider users. Before you start,…
Install ImageMagick – Ubuntu 16.04
Let's start off with a freshly installed server running Ubuntu 16.04 (server). This article assumes that you have Apache and PHP installed already. Issue the following command at shell to…