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Using justcurl.com one-line scripts to generate Apache virtual hosts on CentOS/RHEL or Debian/Ubuntu, with an optional WordPress install.

archived Mar 24, 2013 1 min Lamp Apache

Running apachebuddy.pl and MySQLTuner to analyze Apache and MySQL configurations and get tuning recommendations.

archived Mar 24, 2013 1 min Lamp Apache Mysql

Resetting a MySQL root password on Debian 6 with --skip-grant-tables, and extracting one table from a mysqldump file.

archived Mar 23, 2013 2 min Mysql Linux

Installing MySQL 5.6.10 server and client RPMs on CentOS 6.3, after removing mysql-libs and installing libaio.

archived Feb 14, 2013 1 min Mysql Linux

Setting DHCP_HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network so a Linux VM sends its hostname to the DHCP/DNS server.

archived Feb 13, 2013 1 min Networking Linux Virtualization

Installing Fedora 17 on a 2011 MacBook Air and switching trackpad two-finger scrolling to OS X style natural scrolling with xmodmap.

archived Dec 15, 2012 2 min Linux Macos

Monitoring an OpenIndiana/Solaris 11 ZFS host from Nagios using the check_mk agent run through inetd.

archived Dec 7, 2012 2 min Nagios Monitoring Zfs

Building an ESXi whitebox VM lab on an ASRock 970 Extreme4 with a BR10i passed through, serving an OpenIndiana napp-it ZFS NFS datastore.

archived Nov 28, 2012 3 min Esxi Zfs Hardware

Making pfSense's Squid package log full URLs by setting strip_query_terms off in squid.conf.

archived Nov 2, 2012 1 min Pfsense Networking

Resetting a forgotten WordPress administrator password by updating the wp_users table directly in MySQL.

archived Oct 25, 2012 1 min Wordpress Mysql