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Sometimes a system administrator forgets the MySQL root password! It happens, but what to do when you're unable to login to your MySQL server? It's simple!
All it takes is 5 simple steps!
Step 1: Stop the MySQL Server
We do this with:
/etc/init.d/mysql stop or service mysql stop
Step 2: Start the MySQL Server
mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
We do this so MySQL
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I just installed Slackware Linux 1337 and the network card does not show up even though it was configured on setup. I looked around restarted the network and nothing worked. After trying to figure it out I googled around for slackware 8139too wont start and some other phrases. I found someone saying it was the blacklist file.
Sure enough I look in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and there is
blacklist 8139cp
I comment it out
#blacklist 8139cp
Then I reboot and it works.
Linux admi
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I remember when I first used Ubuntu. One of the guys I worked with at a local data center threw a cd in a nice cover at me. It said Linux for Human Beings. I did not think much of it but once I installed it I was like wow. Not bad. I did not like Debian much at the time I liked Redhat better but even then Ubuntu was cool!
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Years ago back in the day as they say I was constantly on IRC! I was told try Linux to run several services! That is what got me into to linux. I want to say around 1998! I am sure it was 98! Anyways I started off with Slackware. It might have been Slackware 6! That is what sticks out in the the mind... I setup a shell server today for a customer on CentOS5 64 bit. It is really simple. You just install gcc, screen, glibc, automake, autoconf, oidentd, BitchX and some other packages if needed. The
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If you are an IT guy I am sure you have used some kind of Virtualization or at least heard about it. I personally have used just about everything out there. I am sure I have missed some but here is the list I have used. Vmware, Xen, OpenVZ, Virtual Box, KVM, Virtual PC, HyperV, and Parallels. I am sure I missing some that I cannot think of right now. I have also tried and used many control panels for Virtualization Management. To list some HyperVM, SolusVM, Proxmox VE, and OnAPP. I am sure I am
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I ran into this issue in the last week. I tried installing the rpms I could find with out any resolution. I could not find any help online about it. Then I finally downloaded the source and installed it. Which I try not to do with Redhat based OSes like CentOS unless I have to.
Basically it was simple to fix. Go to sourceforge download the source compile it and bam! Th error went away and the customer was happy once again.
couldn't load file "/usr/lib/tls/libtls1.6.so": /usr/lib/tls/libtls
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I was asked a question yesterday about adding Videos to a wordpress blog easily. This is really easy to do.
1. Download, install, and activate the Select WP YouTube Player plugin for wordpress.
2. Find the Video on YouTube and copy the URL.
3. In your blog post add [tube]Video URL from YouTube[/tube]
BAM now you have Videos on your blog.
I hope this helps!
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I worked for a data center that hated Parallels. The wanted to stop paying the ridiculous pricing for Virtuozzo.. We decided to migrate from Virtuozzo to OpenVZ. We were actually going to SolusVM but the migration to any OpenVZ platform should be the same.
First you should copy over the configuration file. We like to do this using rsync.
rsync -a -e ssh /vz/private/1234/ve.conf root@10.1.0.1:/etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts/6860.conf
Next we copy over the container to your OpenVZ server or in ou
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Dovecot and Cpanel issue!
We setup a Cpanel server recently then we started to put customers on it. Right away we had a customer tell us they were not able to get email. They were getting the following error when checking email from a help desk.
SECURITY PROBLEM: insecure server advertised AUTH=PLAIN
Retrying PLAIN authentication after Authentication failed.
First thing that came to thought was that it is using Plain Text Authentication but it is not working for whatever reason. We t
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Polycom phones cannot dial anything past 211 when our extensions go to 2111, 2112, 2113 and so on. The problem ended up being the digit map...
At one of our customer’s sites they have extensions in the 2110-2120 range. Everything seemed fine when we installed the PBX. They started dialing 2111 2112 2113 2114 and they would get all circuits are busy. The PBX was only seeing 211.
Here is what I was seeing from Asterisk.
[Jul 11 10:09:47] VERBOSE[3220] logger.c: == Spawn extension (fro
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