Yes, I need to get it out of my system, once and for all.
With all due respect to the selfless efforts of all Debian developers I have to admit that in the course of my professional career I’ve never dealt with such an confusing, obscure and downright inconvenient package management tools. You guys even left Sun far behind.
And I’ve see it all.
Here, I’ve said it, now you can hate me because you can’t allow yourselves to admit that I’m right.
Author Archives: admin - Page 3
I have to say it: Debian package management beats it all
Posted by admin
on 05/16/2016
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Wordpress: Database access error of doom
Posted by admin
on 04/15/2016
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Usually it happens after migration. When there is absolutely nothing that could possibly go wrong:
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sysadmin: cPanel installation script detected MySQL and failed
Posted by admin
on 01/07/2016
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While trying to install cPanel control panel on just reimaged server I’ve got an interesting error, I’ve never seen before:
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2016-01-01 18:24:03 523 ( INFO): Checking for an existing MySQL or MariaDB instance... 2016-01-01 18:24:03 527 (ERROR): The installation process found evidence that MySQL or MariaDB was installed on this server. 2016-01-01 18:24:03 528 (FATAL): You must install cPanel & WHM on a clean server. Removing /root/installer.lock. |
sysadmin: Apache, FastCGI and PHP-FPM working config
Posted by admin
on 11/01/2015
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I was looking for working config for the combination of apache mod_fastcgi and PHP-FPM and could not find any. I mean there were plenty of examples and discussions but none of them were operational. The closest was the article on server-world.info site.
Based on that information I was able to put together working configuration for multiple virtual hosts.
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Windows: Set lightweight web browser as MS windows default web browser application.
Posted by admin
on 10/24/2015
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I was thinking the other day – it’s not really safe to have MS windows default browser set to MS Internet Explorer, so any URL you accidentally click will be open with it. For the work related activity I user portable browsers. But what about everything else – this is not really safe no matter how many MS security updates are published every week.
So, I decided to find something really small and “feature-poor” to assign it to the default browser.
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Sysadmin: How to see the name of PHP script that sent that e-mail
Posted by admin
on 10/06/2015
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SPAM e-mail is the common problem these days and in most cases the cause of this problem is the lack of security on the hosted web sites. Various badly designed PHP scripts expose the hosting server MTA to be used as SPAM e-mails source. First and foremost step in resolving this problem would be to determine the originating PHP script that was used to send e-mails.
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OSX: PPTP VPN networking problem solved with custom MTU
Posted by admin
on 05/15/2015
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I had an interesting complain the other day – customer experienced connectivity problems trying to access some web sites while on PPTP VPN connection. The VPN server was running on Linux and also under our control so troubleshooting the situation was pretty easy. All MS Windows based clients didn’t have this problem, only OSX based clients.
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Sysadmin: How to install latest ffmpeg on Centos
Posted by admin
on 10/13/2014
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I had a request to install latest ffmpeg on one of our Cnetos 5 servers the other day. Since I’m trying to stick the the proper package management I’ve had to look for the most recent ffmpeg RPM package on the pkgs.org site. As in most cases the search pointed me towards atrpms.net repository. Pkgs.org contains pretty detailed instruction on how to add the repository that contains the package you require but unfortunately it was not all that straightforward with atrpms.net
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Sysadmin: “[warn-phpd] mmap cache can’t open file … ” mystery solved
Posted by admin
on 09/30/2014
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Yesterday I was asked by one of our old customers to help solving very interesting problem – he put some php files outside of apache DocumentRoot on his server and the apache could not access the files, producing very interesting lines into apache default error_log
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"[warn-phpd] mmap cache can't open file /home/conf.php - permission denied (pid XXX of XXX)" |
Sysadmin: How to make use of apache web server mod_expires to improve performance
Posted by admin
on 06/26/2014
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Most of modern Linux distributions contain Apache 2.x web server with the set of standard modules. One of these modules is mod_expires that allows to configure content expiration in local browser cache or caching proxies. Proper configuration for it can significantly improve overall server performance and reduce bandwidth consumption.
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