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2FA is pretty cool, especially when you don’t have to get a text message or email. Google Authenticator generates codes that expire after 30 seconds, so I figured it’s a good option for 2FA. I tried installing it on my … Continue reading →

This happens every time and I need to look for the solution. Posting here to save time going forward. “startupWarnings”: { “totalLinesWritten”: 9, “log”: [ “2015-08-21T18:47:29.634+0000 I CONTROL [initandlisten] “, “2015-08-21T18:47:29.634+0000 I CONTROL [initandlisten] ** WARNING: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled is ‘always’.”, “2015-08-21T18:47:29.634+0000 … Continue reading →

I can edit the port in the config file, but automation agent wipes that change out. How the heck does one change the port in cloud manager? I’m going to try removing and reinstalling the agent to see if that … Continue reading →

Had to do some searching to figure this out, so I’m noting it here for future reference. Even though smbclient -L works just fine, mounting with smbmount or mount -t was just not working. apt-get install cifs-utils mount.cifs -vv //192.168.0.3/backup … Continue reading →

Was having some trouble hosting a wordpress site from a subfolder of the domain, ‘/blog’. The permalinks just would not work until I found this solution: I only had to adapt it slightly for my situation: location /blog/ { try_files … Continue reading →

Carelessly following these instructions, I got a WPOD. Turns out the reason was I was copying two sections where I really only needed the second. For the not-so-faint-of-heart; make your child folder, such as ‘twentyten-child’ (2010, old-school, I know!) Then … Continue reading →

Running vsftpd on CentOS, a user was unable to upload a file to a folder for which the user had group permissions. Thanks to this post here, I was able to figure it out. Needed to edit vsftpd.conf and update … Continue reading →

I have a program that uses perl’s File::PID but I was having some issue where the program would occasionally start multiple times. Finally today I spent some time to figure out what’s going on. It seems that if you use … Continue reading →

While trying to run automated backups with syncbackfree some systems were having the subject error. According to this forum the problem is with trying to use a mapped drive. I changed it to the LAN ip address \\192.168.0.100\ and we’ll … Continue reading →

While trying to install XML::RSS from CPAN on a CentOS installation with Perl 5.10, it kept failing on the pre-requisite XML::Parser For example, one of the failures showed: t/astress.t ……….. Failed 15/27 subtests and concluded with Test Summary Report ——————- … Continue reading →