Here is a quick tutorial regarding how to install a source RPM on RHEL/CentOS Linux. 1. Prepare the build environment and get the dependencies. Do those following command under your root home directory : yum install rpm-build redhat-rpm-config gcc make mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS} 2. Put the source rpm file at the root of your home directory… Read More »
NTFS filesystem store a lot of information that might not be required all the time and can significantly improve the I/O performance when disabled, especially under a virtualized environment. To disable Last Access Time Stamp on Windows, you need to manually edit the registry. 1. Open the registry editor : Start > Run > regedit.exe 2.… Read More »
Getting this error message trying to start vsFTPd on FreeBSD? 500 OOPS: vsftpd: not configured for standalone, must be started from inetd Then you missed the important part shown at the end of “vsftpd.conf”! # If using vsftpd in standalone mode, uncomment the next two lines: listen=YES background=YES Just uncomment “listen=YES”, “background=YES” and start the… Read More »
As you might noticed on latest version of Windows, ICMP requests are blocked by default with the built-in firewall. Use this simple command to enable echo request : netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable
You might encounter this issue when installing Plesk 11 with Microsoft SQL Server on Windows : Unable to install the “mssql2008_configurator-1.0.noarch” package. The following could cause the installation failure: 1) mssql2008_configurator-1.0.noarch: No suitable solutions were found for the “msi45 >= 4.5.0000.0000” dependency. 2) The dependency for “msi45 >= 4.5.0000.0000” required by the “mssql2008_configurator-1.0.noarch” package could… Read More »
PHP SSH support does not come out of the box yet. The shortest and effortless path to get it working is the following procedure. DISCLAIMER : php-SSH is still beta and not enabled by default. Use only if you know what you’re doing! 1. Install the development components to build the module : apt-get install… Read More »
Running large and high demanding hypervisor connected to SAN storage require jumbo (large MTU) frames to enhance I/O performance to the guests virtual machines. To achieve that, you need to use the command line since vSphere console do not allow to do such thing. 1. Stop all guest virtual machine and put the hypervisor in… Read More »
Using a SSD drive on Windows 7? You better have TRIM enabled for better performance and make your drive last longer. Windows should enable it by default. To check if it’s enabled, run the following command : fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify If returned value is ” 0 “, this mean TRIM is enabled. If ”… Read More »
You may notice those symptoms after updating SpamAssassin : – High CPU usage – spamd keep flipping between “running” and “zombie” state This probably mean your SpamAssassin installation is missing rule set configuration files. To resolve this issue, simply try running : sa-update Since this should have been automatically done at the installation or upgrade,… Read More »
This tutorial is about how to replace a failed member of a Linux software RAID-1 array. You can monitor the status of your software RAID array through mdadm with the following command : cat /proc/mdstat This is the kind of output you’ll get in case of the secondary drive is either dead or no longer… Read More »