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database is locked (sqlite / yum issue not rpm issue) | System Administration by Quags
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System Administration by Quags. Database is locked (sqlite / yum issue not rpm issue). June 11, 2013. On occasion an RPM db can get corrupt on RHEL based systems. Running rpm -vv –rebuilddb after backing up /var/lib/rpm is a quick fix to the problem. I came across the following error during a yum update, on an openvz container. Process:7450): GLib-CRITICAL * : g timer stop: assertion `timer! Process:7450): GLib-CRITICAL * : g timer destroy: assertion `timer! Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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InterServer | System Administration by Quags
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System Administration by Quags. InterServer’s in house customer portal features. June 13, 2013. InterServer’s customer portal at https:/ my.interserver.net provides a lot addons included in the price. Many of these are for VPS’s (kvm/openvz) or InterServer quickservers. Here is a small list of features:. 2) Server monitoring – under the monitoring tab in my.interserver.net you can monitor an external IP address for services like ping or httpd. Email can be sent on failure. 6) Tons of OS choices available...
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Adding AHCI to centos initrd | System Administration by Quags
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System Administration by Quags. Adding AHCI to centos initrd. March 29, 2012. Ever needed to add AHCI to a centos system after an install. A quick way to do it is just:. Modprobe ahci cp /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img.bak mkinitrd -f - with=ahci /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`. UPDATE: on centos6 its now. Modprobe ahci cp /boot/initramfs-`uname -r`.img /boot/initramfs-`uname -r`.img.bak mkinitrd -f - with=ahci /boot/initramfs-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`. Cpanel server changi...
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Kernel too old on centos5 hostnode for ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 | System Administration by Quags
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System Administration by Quags. Kernel too old on centos5 hostnode for ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10. March 29, 2013. Getting kernel too old (and a failure to start up) for the ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 templates on openvz? The newer templates may only work on centos 6 servers, and you may not want to upgrade systems to centos6 yet. Updates continue until Mar 31, 2017 anyway. You can use the following ubuntu templates instead which are tested to work on centos 5 openvz systems:. You will need to add. 436b88068d7cd...
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Converting to nginx on a cpanel server | System Administration by Quags
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System Administration by Quags. Converting to nginx on a cpanel server. May 22, 2013. Moved to http:/ forum.interserver.net/forum/threads/beta-convert-to-nginx-on-a-centos-cpanel-server.1857/. I’ve been working on a script slowly to convert a cpanel server to nginx for a while. I consider the script now to be good enough to allow others to use it. Some things to consider:. Tested on centos 5/6. Only available for cpanel. You must be able to run commands as root in SSH. Run the following ssh commands.
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cPanel | System Administration by Quags
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System Administration by Quags. June 20, 2013. Came across this in a support request. The following errors were found :. The SVN config directory does not exist. The SVN password file does not exist. The SVN access file does not exist. The solution is before installing svnmanager run:. As the user you want to install it as. Then rerun the installer. Make sure the repo path is /path/to/user/repos. Cpanel server changing /tmp permissions during upcp to clamav / 711. June 14, 2013. May 22, 2013. I don’...
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Spam | System Administration by Quags
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System Administration by Quags. Fighting spam and confirming opt in info. July 9, 2013. The spam complaints coming in were for mortgage refinance with opt in info listed for franchisegator.com. A glance at franchisegator.com listed a truste verified privacy policy and contacts with no relation to mortgage refinances at all. How are you related to franchisegator.com. And explain how you are properly following the listed privacy policy which. Is verified by Truste at. And what did franchise gator say:.
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Security | System Administration by Quags
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System Administration by Quags. Massive brute force against wp-login.php (wordpress). August 13, 2013. So I get a ticket about high load on a server. Checking logs I see tons of:. POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0. 8211; – [13/Aug/2013:13:35:07 -0400] “POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0”. Notice all http/1.0 – thanks for making it easy. Dropped with a .htaccess. RewriteCond %{SERVER PROTOCOL} (HTTP/1.0). RewriteCond %{REQUEST URI} /wp-login.php$. RewriteRule .* - [R=406]. May 28, 2013. PHP and javascript follow the s...
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massive brute force against wp-login.php (wordpress) | System Administration by Quags
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System Administration by Quags. Massive brute force against wp-login.php (wordpress). August 13, 2013. So I get a ticket about high load on a server. Checking logs I see tons of:. POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0. 8211; – [13/Aug/2013:13:35:07 -0400] “POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0”. Notice all http/1.0 – thanks for making it easy. Dropped with a .htaccess. RewriteCond %{SERVER PROTOCOL} (HTTP/1.0). RewriteCond %{REQUEST URI} /wp-login.php$. RewriteRule .* - [R=406]. Fighting spam and confirming opt in info.
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