Posts Tagged ‘sysadmin’

A quick reminder to myself on the things to do when you decide to upgrade PHP (and subsequently MySQL for a “nasty” php-mysql dependency problem) on a stock, running CentOS / RHEL server.
You can encounter a number of errors like the
ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table ‘mysql.servers’ doesn’t exist
when you do a simple FLUSH PRIVILEGES; command or [...]

Did you ever find yourself at work with a remote session on your Ubuntu server (or workstation) invoked by ssh -X command and needed to launch users-admin or some similar graphical application that need a sudo (or root) authentication to work?
Did you ever got frustrated of not having the possibility to enter or see accepted [...]

Hi, just a few words to remind myself the exact sintax to use when you have to specify the mirror to use when you’re into a network installation of CentOS with the netinstall cdrom (an ISO file of just 7MB).
At a certain point you will be asked the ‘media’ to use for the installation [...]

In the last couple of days I’ve been busy setting up an FTP server upon with a number of people could browse a group of directory and their files.
To achieve this I gave trust to pureftpd using a virtual users configurations, since my users won’t need a shell on the machine, following a clear [...]

… And remember, today we celebrate the 8th System Administrator Appreciation Day.
Remember to thank your sysadmin today and be clement with him for the remaining 364 days of the year !
And now I’ll leave you with a classic of our times:

sysadmin