mathias-kettner.de “could not be resolved”
So we use check_mk pretty extensively for all of our servers for health monitoring. Today we added a brand new bare metal centos 7 minimal install …
check_mk qmail-stat not working with plesk
I saw the check_mk added the ability to monitor the qmail mail queue, so I wanted to get that setup on a few plesk servers. The …
Shell Script to Optimize all tables for a database
This shell script finds all the tables for a database and run a command against it. See File optimize-tables The file’s contents are below as well: …
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Convert any dedicated machine into a xen hypervisor
Important Note: Since these were Rackspace servers – the default repository that they connect to does not have the xen kernel packages and xen software …
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Install APF Firewall
Install iptables (Hopefully, you’ve done this already) # yum install iptables* -y Download, unpack, install of APF from source: # cd /usr/local/src # wget http://www.rfxn.com/downloads/apf-current.tar.gz …
Mysql Cluster Community Edition 7.1
This week, I’ve set up mysql cluster on virtual machines to do some benchmarking and testing against performance. For the basis I have implemented the steps …
Cpanel Logs Location
Coming from a plesk background, I always have a hard time finding the location of Cpanel’s log’s. Today while looking for where cpanel keeps it’s access …
Svn: Path ‘includes’ not present
So today I ran into an svn problem: Svn: Path ‘somedirectory’ not present I spend a good hour trying to fix it. It turned out to …
HTML 5 Review
A colleague of mine recently came over to discuss HTML 5 the next major revision of HTML! He wondered what new and beneficial features were in …
Grub Reboot to New Kernel Once
The servers I work on are almost never in front of me. Instead they are in dark rooms humming away gracefully. When I need to do …