SSH port forwarding/tunneling for MySQL connection
Create an account on the remote MySQL database server. useradd -s /bin/false remote_user mkdir /home/remote_user/.ssh touch /home/remote_user/.ssh/authorized_keys chown -R remote_user:remote_user...
View ArticleMySQL not creating mysql.sock and broken on Hardy Heron
Recently I started receiving errors when I tried to connect to MySQL using command line or PHPMyAdmin. In command line I would get “ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through...
View ArticleHard disk usage from command line on Linux
From the command line I have found many great tools for system management, but really needed to dig into ways of tracking hard disk usage on Linux without the aid of GUI tools. Google to the rescue! I...
View ArticleGet SSL running on Apache (CentOS)
I was playing with a new virtual server that had CentOS installed on it recently, and wanted to get SSL working for Apache. Since I was only setting up a development server I really didn’t need to...
View ArticleRedhat, Plesk, named, and chroot oh my!
Well once again I performed my updates via Redhat up2date, and once again I lost all name services on a server. This time I thought I would post my fix, since it was the same as last time. There was...
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UltraEdit on Linux and MAC…finally ! ! !
I received an email that just made my day. It was the announcement that UltraEdit will finally be available on Linux! The screenshots show it on Ubuntu, and they say there will also be a version for...
View ArticleLinux backup using CRON to local directory
As many have pointed out I am on a backup and disaster recovery kick lately. Some would say that it is about time, others are simply glad to see that data is now being backed up. I have found that it...
View ArticleBackup files from Linux to a Windows server
Ok, this may be my last disaster recovery and backup blog for a long time. As you can probably tell from the title this blog entry is all about keeping backup strategies as cheap as possible. My...
View ArticleFinding a text string inside a file on a Linux server
It never fails that I find myself hunting for a way to search for a particular text string in files. Usually I know the file, but often times I also find that I am completely unsure what file contains...
View ArticleUbuntu can mount ISO files, and IMG files after converting them to ISO
Today I needed to create an OEM Microsoft Office 2007 CD and found that I could download the disks directly from the Microsoft site. However, the files that I downloaded were in IMG format. At first I...
View ArticleInstalling mhash on RHEL 4 and PHP 4.3.9
Recently I had a customer that was receiving errors from an Authorize.Net web submit form in their shopping cart. The error simply stated: “The gateway no longer supports the requested method of...
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Setting larger terminal size when launching
Have you ever noticed that when opening a terminal screen in Linux it is very small? Who can work like that? AND in order to do anything I need to drag the corner of the window to make it larger, which...
View ArticleEmpty file contents at command line on Linux system
As is often the case I needed to accomplish something, so I tinkered until I figure it out. I had a web site that I recently moved from a PHP 5.2 to 5.3 enabled server. It became a problem when I...
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Tether Android to Ubuntu for free Internet
A couple of weeks ago I was without Internet (thanks to AT&T), and was forced to go to Starbucks to check email and commit work I had done. While I like going to Starbucks, it was not the best...
View ArticleVirtualmin error while installing on Ubuntu 10.4
While I am very comfortable using Linux via a command line shell, I think all of us can admit that occasionally we need to look up a command or two due to non-regular use. Because time is short, and...
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Executing CakePHP script using Windows Scheduled Task
In Windows adding a scheduled task is just not as straight forward as adding a CRON job using Linux. (Don’t get me started on troubleshooting a Windows Schedule Task that did not run for some reason.)...
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Skype for Ubuntu 13.04 Ringtail
I am running the new version of Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, and so far really like it. However I’ve had a bit of trouble with Skype, because I could not get it to use the indicator area of the tray....
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Skype sounds audio distorted in Ubuntu
Now that I have Skype installed on Ubuntu 13.04 I discovered that the various Skype sounds were distorted. It was almost like the sounds had some static mixed in with them. I thought it was probably...
View ArticleCentOS networking not active after installation
I needed to install a CentOS 6.4 server in a VM and after installing I was not able to hit anything on the Internet, or any network for that matter. When I tried using the yum packages manager I...
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Developer advice
As the organizer of the SoFloPHP User Group I am often approached by entry to mid-level developers asking what they can do to advance in their career or become better developers. Of course I am...
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