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CentOS as root “command not found”

If you SSH to CentOS as a regular user and then “su” to root, there are many commands that will tell you “command not found” For example, # chkconfig vsftpd on bash: chkconfig: command not found To resolve this, enter … Continue reading

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Install vsftpd in CentOS

To install vsftpd in CentOS using yum simply do as root: yum install vsftpd To set it to turn on after a reboot: chkconfig vsftpd on To set up vsftpd NAT’d behind a firewall use this option in vsftpd.conf: (replace … Continue reading

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Second ip address on same interface CentOS 6.3

I tried to add a second LAN addresses in CentOS 6.3 on a brand new install and it’s not working. I installed a new copy of CentOS 5.7 and tried the same and it worked right away. Reason: NetworkManager is … Continue reading

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Does netqmail-1.06 already include badmailfrom wildcard?

If you want to block all ‘.info’ domains on a server running netqmail-1.06 I can confirm the badmailfrom wildcard functionality is not included in netqmail-1.06 Use the badmailfrom-wildcard patch http://tomclegg.net/qmail-bmf-wildcard even though it makes no mention of netqmail-1.06, it works. … Continue reading

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Drupal 6: Change number of “Recent Comments” in Sidebar

As per this post here https://drupal.org/node/15635#comment-3916370 Change the ’10’ to a ‘5’ or what have you, in the file /modules/blog/blog.module

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Setting up TEMPer USB thermometer on CentOS

We recently ordered one of these TEMPer USB thermometers. Ours says it’s v1.4. There is a lot of different software and instructions floating around online for these TEMPer devices. Eventually one of the programs I downloaded (temper-1.0) reported that the … Continue reading

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installing DBD::mysql on Ubuntu

Trying to install DBD::mysql with CPAN on ubuntu and the install was failing. Finally found the needed package: sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev After that, DBD::mysql installs from CPAN

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Corporate Colocation Reviews

Reviews of the Los Angeles datacenter Corporate Colocation. Here users may describe their experience with Corporate Colocation.

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Fatal error: Class ‘Ingo_Basic_Blacklist’ not found

On the latest installation of horde webmail (5.1.0 beta3), I’m not able to edit my user preferences. I found the solution here; find and edit the file: ingo/lib/Api.php, replace line 56: return array( with: global $registry; $pushed = $registry->pushApp(‘ingo’); $links … Continue reading

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Updating horde

this is frustrating; maybe it doesn’t work on PHP 5.4 ? downloading ssh2-0.12.tgz … Starting to download ssh2-0.12.tgz (26,223 bytes) ………done: 26,223 bytes ERROR: pecl.php.net/ssh2 not installed [root@vraid3 src]# pecl install ssh2 channel://pecl.php.net/ssh2-0.12 Ignoring installed package pecl/ssh2 Ignoring installed package … Continue reading

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