Have you noticed the following on the console output of SAP Solution Manager? WARNING: wildcard character used in route target This is because you have a wildcard “*” set in the target host <dest-host> and/or the target port <dest-serv>. SAP do not recommend this practice for security reason and output this warning on purpose. However, this… Read More »
Have you forgotten you Avast Enterprise Administration console password? Fortunately, there is a way to reset it using the “AmsTool.exe” utility, provided with the software. 1. Open the Command Prompt with administrative rights. 2. Enter the following command : “C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Enterprise Administration\AmsTool.exe” /pwdreset NOTE : If for any reason the command does not complete,… Read More »
Have you experienced the following random error while printing with CUPS? Unable to send trailing nul to printer: Broken pipe printer PRLAX05 disabled since Wed 11 Nov 2015 02:53:29 PM PST – Unable to write print data: Broken pipe There could be multiple reasons for this issue to happen. Have a look at the following : 1. Make… Read More »
If you had installed your RHEL/CentOS 5 system using LSILogic Parallel controller, you may have noticed the horrible I/O performance… You unfortunately cannot just change the controller type and expect your VM to boot. There is a few easy steps to ensure that the OS can boot with the new controller. FIRST thing FIRST :… Read More »
You have noticed such behaviour in the system logs (/var/log/messages)? kernel: httpd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0 kernel: Call Trace: kernel: [<ffffffff800cb67d>] out_of_memory+0x8e/0x2f3 kernel: [<ffffffff8002e493>] __wake_up+0x38/0x4f kernel: [<ffffffff8000a7ea>] get_page_from_freelist+0x2/0x442 kernel: [<ffffffff8000f6a2>] __alloc_pages+0x27f/0x308 kernel: [<ffffffff8001308d>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x96/0x17b kernel: [<ffffffff800139d6>] filemap_nopage+0x14c/0x360 kernel: [<ffffffff80008972>] __handle_mm_fault+0x1fd/0x103b kernel: [<ffffffff8000c795>] _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x39/0x57 kernel: [<ffffffff800671ae>] do_page_fault+0x499/0x842 kernel: [<ffffffff8005ddf9>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 Additionally, the system was hanging/very… Read More »
It is fine to list users manually when you have a few, but can be just unthinkable when you have a thousand! Fortunately, PowerShell can make it easy for you. The following command will list all the users (even those who are disabled) with a lot of useful information. The command to use is :… Read More »
Have you encountered the following error while doing upload or delete operation with vsFTPd server? 550 Permission denied error Open your vsFTPd configuration file : /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf Or : /etc/vsftpd.conf 1. Locate the following parameter : write_enable=YES Set to YES or make sure it is not commented # (remove comment and reload the daemon). 2. If… Read More »
When using the usual service shutdown is not enough (MySQL is still active, even though you have issued “service mysqld stop” or “/etc/init.d/mysql stop”), you can use this alternate method for a graceful shutdown : mysqladmin -uroot -p -h127.0.0.1 –protocol=tcp shutdown Or : mysqladmin -uroot -p -h127.0.0.1 shutdown
The following error may occur while reloading CSF (csf -r) : *WARNING* Binary location for [HOST] [/usr/bin/host] in /etc/csf/csf.conf is either incorrect, is not installed or is not executable *WARNING* Missing or incorrect binary locations will break csf and lfd functionality In this particular case, CSF was installed on a CentOS 7 server and there… Read More »
If you are working on Juniper ScreenOS on a daily basis on a few platform/OS and SSH clients, you probably noticed that in some circumstances that the backspace or delete key isn’t working (it just does nothing, you cannot delete anything of what you have typed if you did a mistake!)… and this can be… Read More »