One of the MySQL servers was running out of space, it turned out to be over 7GB of bin logs filling up the hard drive rather quickly. Since this server is not replicating, then a few modifications to the my.ini or my.cnf file will disable this “feature”. Edit the my.cnf file. Yours may be somewhere so search for it with…
Read More » Every now and again a MySQL root password may have been forgotten or undocumented along the way, but that does not negate the need to access the MySQL server. There is a way to gain access to the MySQL server to change the password for root and eventually log in as root. Applies to: CentOS / RHEL / Scientific Linux…
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Using a CentOS 7 box running a Plex Media Server and an Apache reverse proxy on the same box without a domain name and only an IP address and after much trial and error, a working Apache configuration file finally materializes. The goal was to eliminate the need of typing the port number to access the Plex Media Server web…
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After a few years and many yum updates later, the hard drive begins to fill up. There may be many versions of the Linux kernel. Many of which may be removed and to do this the yum-utils package is needed. Pre-CentOS 8 Install the yum-utils package. yum install -y yum-utils Check your running version. [root@server01 opt]# uname -a Linux server01…
Read More » After creating a usable MySQL database backup script and having tested it throughly, I put it in the /etc/cron.daily directory where I had expected it to run automatically. I had even tested it from that directory manually with success. After some time had past, I realized that the script was running as it read in the logs; however had only…
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Every now and again I perform a Microsoft Windows Search of a folder. The results are incomplete as the folder may contain PDF files. The PDF files are not being searched for content. There are a few simple steps to determine if PDFs are being indexed. Go to your Start Menu > Control Panel > View by: Small icons > Indexing Options >…
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Great, so you have another service running on your Linux box. It’s main purpose is to intercept an email, run rules against it, and either mark it as spam or not. Either way, it sends the email through and you still have to deal with the message on the email client. From the email client, you could make the necessary…
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SpamAssassin is an e-mail spam filter which uses content-matching rules. For this install, CentOS 6.6 (64-bit) and Sendmail are used. Enable EPEL repository. One way is to download and install the EPEL repository. Another is to edit the /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo file and change enabled=0 to enabled=1 under the [epel] section. Yet another way to enable EPEL repository. Install Sendmail and spamassassin….
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OpenVZ (Open Virtuozzo) is an operating system-level virtualization technology based on the Linux kernel and operating system. OpenVZ allows a physical server to run multiple isolated operating system instances, called containers, virtual private servers (VPSs), or virtual environments (VEs). OpenVZ is similar to FreeBSD jails and Solaris Containers. Download the OpenVZ repo. wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d/ http://ftp.openvz.org/openvz.repo Import OpenVZ GPG key….
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Rainloop is an attractive webmail with a nice clean modern feel to it. After following several different installation procedures, I finally got a working copy. Assumptions: Apache has already been installed. Sendmail or Postfix is already installed correctly. Install Rainloop Create a configuration file for Apache. Restart or Reload Apache Logon to the admin control panel with default credentials. URL:…
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Speedtest.net is a go to site for testing Internet speeds, which is usually accomplished through a web browser. There is a command line utility that offers the functionality without the need of a GUI or the web browser. To run the utility, type speedtest_cli.py. Here is an example of what one may expect to see. [root@localhost speedtest-cli-master]# speedtest_cli.py Retrieving speedtest.net…
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Mozilla Thunderbird is a free email application. MozBackup is a utility for creating backups of Thunderbird and other Mozilla applications. It can backup and restore everything from your bookmarks, history, plugins, mail, to contacts. MozBackup offers command line functionality which supposedly allows for command line backups, however, I have encountered it to loop repeatedly, and endlessly. Backing up a profile,…
Read More » Have you ever wondered at what speed your network is really operating? There are several programs and utilities that are readily available. I have tested a couple, however, this one seems to be the easiest and very efficient. This was tested on a CentOS 7 server. From the server, which in this case is 10.10.10.10. From the client. A result…
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One approach to adding space to an existing Linux hard drive that is using Linux LVM is to add space to the drive. This can easily be accomplished in VMware. This has been tested using VMware Workstation 9.0 for Windows with CentOS 6.5 (minimal install). To demonstrate a before and after, here are a few commands that can be used…
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A bug which could allow for arbitrary code execution has been discovered, Red Hat alerted, and patches exist. So, I simple yum update should take care of things. However, Red Hat offers command line arguments which may be used to test for the vulnerability. Using the command issued below, different warnings may appear, however, the following result is one of…
Read More » An anoyance with cloning a Linux virtual machine is that the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file may contain a UUID and HWADDR which can be removed and the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules can be deleted or zero’ed out. So, here are the steps I use to create a “template”. After cloning the system, the first screen should be the option to set a root password. Since,…
Read More »Having to make modifications to a Microsoft Word document, it became painfully clear that there were modifications that could not be made as there were restrictions imposed on to the document and password protected. Not having access to the password, a solution to remove the password became known to me and after having applied it, it worked successfully and painlessly….
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