I am not a big believer in root disk encapsulation with Veritas Volume Manager, now part of Symantec Storage Foundation. There have been a number of times when I have had to boot off the mirror disk, and had to completely de-encapsulate the mirror disk from Veritas Volume Manager to recover. Here is how [...]
Archive | Unix RSS feed for this section
Check Network Speed In Solaris 10
Here is a useful command to check the network speeds of NICs in Solaris 10. bash-3.00# dladm show-dev e1000g0 link: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full e1000g1 link: unknown speed: 0 Mbps duplex: half e1000g2 link: unknown speed: 0 Mbps duplex: half e1000g3 link: unknown speed: 0 Mbps duplex: half e1000g4 link: up [...]
VPS.NET SSL Certificate Installation On Ubuntu
Here are some quick notes on how to order and install the free SSL certificates provided by VPS.NET on your server. 1. Create a self-signed certificate. Install ssl-cert if it is not already installed root@ns2:/tmp# aptitude install ssl-cert NOTE: VPS.NET now require 2048 bit certificates. So, edit ssleay.cnf from1024 bits to 2048 bits. root@ns2:/tmp# [...]
Setting Ubuntu Default Crontab Editor
When you first invoke the crontab command in Ubuntu you are prompted for the default editor. If someone has already set this to nano and you are a vim-person this can be very annoying. To change it to vim use the select-editor command root@ns1:/etc# select-editor Select an editor. To change later, run ‘select-editor’. 1. [...]
Install Memcached on Ubuntu
Memcached on Ubuntu has actually two components. A standalone program running on your server and a client PHP extension. To be honest I noticed no increase in performance using memcached with the W3 Total Cache plugin. root@ns1:~# aptitude install memcached The following NEW packages will be installed: memcached First we need to install [...]
Setup A FreeBSD Web Server–Part 2–Jails
This post is continuing from Part 1 of our series on how to setup a FreeBSD Web Server. If you ordered a number of IP address then you might want to set them up as individual jails. One for your DNS server, one for you backend server and the rest as individual webserver IP [...]
Setup A Freebsd Server– Part 1– Lock It Down
When you get your raw freebsd srever from your hosting provider, you will usually find it is very out of date and not very secure. Our very first step is to lock down our server. 1. Secure Access To Your Server The first thing I like to do is restrict ssh access from the [...]
How to access HP ILO via a ssh tunnel
Sometimes your HP ILO web interface may only be accessible via a jump box in a DMZ. In this case you may be able to access it with an ssh tunnel. Here is how. download putty.exe and plink.exe — plink is a command line interface to putty. Here are the official putty and plink site [...]
Mysql Proxy on freebsd
This took me a while to work out. When people create databases for web applications e.g. for wordpress or forums, they typically use localhost. For whatever reason it is hardcoded in the mysql client library to use unix domain sockets in every case if ‘localhost’ is used. You can’t even turn this off. To get [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
-
WPMU W3 Total Cache Can Not Login
- How to access HP ILO via a ssh tunnel
- How to setup dnydns for freebsd
- Recovering A Broken WordPress Blog Without A Backup Copy
- Apache MYSQL VirtualMin PHP5
