https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/linux/ Recent content in Linux on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:00:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/migrating-off-of-wordpress-a-simplified-stack-2024-12-02/ Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:00:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/migrating-off-of-wordpress-a-simplified-stack-2024-12-02/ The ongoing drama between Wordpress v WP Engine continues to cross my reading list, but I have permanently removed WordPress from my website. I have finally transitioned away from the complex Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP) stack required for self-hosting WordPress on my professional website. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/loops-in-shell-scripting-2015-03-19/ Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:21:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/loops-in-shell-scripting-2015-03-19/ If you are die hard Bourne Shell (/bin/sh) scripter, it can be a challenge not to be enticed by the syntax niceties of the Born Again Borne Shell (/bin/bash). One example is the `{. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/improving-performance-a-full-stack-problem-2015-03-06/ Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:51:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/improving-performance-a-full-stack-problem-2015-03-06/ Improving the performance of a web system involves knowledge of how the entire technology stack operates and interacts. There are many simple and common tips that can provide immediate improvements for a website. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/identify-package-management-file-contents-2013-07-02/ Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:48:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/identify-package-management-file-contents-2013-07-02/ Recently when implementing Milliseconds in MySQL Proxy Lua Script I needed to identify what was installed from a given package. For CentOS $ sudo yum install -y yum-utils $ repoquery -q -l --plugins lua-socket /usr/lib64/lua/5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-installing-mysql-rpm-versions-2009-12-16/ Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:34:38 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-installing-mysql-rpm-versions-2009-12-16/ I have a problem with an easy way to install MySQL via rpm without resorting to specifying the exact point release of MySQL. Presently my local yum repository has versions of 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-permissions-restarting-mysql-2009-11-19/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:10:34 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-permissions-restarting-mysql-2009-11-19/ I am working with a client that is using managed hosting on dedicated servers. This has presented new challenges in obtaining the right permissions to undertake MySQL tasks but not have either ‘root’ or ‘mysql’ access and not have to involve a third party everytime. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/monitoring-mysql-option-2009-10-15/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:12:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/monitoring-mysql-option-2009-10-15/ My recent poll What alert monitoring do you use? showed 25% of the 58 respondents to bravely state they had no MySQL monitoring. I see 1 in 3, ~33% in my consulting so this is consistent. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-the-mysql-query-cache-effectively-2009-09-28/ Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:10:53 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-the-mysql-query-cache-effectively-2009-09-28/ Maximize your strengths, minimize your weaknesses. You can apply this approach to many things in life, I apply it to describing and using MySQL the product, and it’s components. The Query Cache like many features in MySQL, and indeed features in many different RDBMS products (don’t get me started on Oracle *features*) have relative benefits. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/identifying-resource-bottlenecks-disk-2009-09-18/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:43:49 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/identifying-resource-bottlenecks-disk-2009-09-18/ With a discussion on identifying CPU and Memory bottlenecks achieved, let us now look at how Disk can affect MySQL performance. One of the first steps when addressing a MySQL performance tuning problem is to perform a system audit of the physical hardware resources (CPU,Memory,Disk,Network), then identify any obvious bottlenecks in these resources. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-dml-stats-per-table-2009-09-09/ Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:55:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-dml-stats-per-table-2009-09-09/ MySQL provides a level of statistics for your INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, REPLACE Data Manipulation Language (DML) commands using the STATUS output of various Com_ variables, however it is per server stats. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/has-your-blog-been-hacked-2009-09-08/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:32:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/has-your-blog-been-hacked-2009-09-08/ While not a MySQL topic, as most of my readers view my MySQL Blog, my WordPress blog has been hacked? Has yours? Like many, I’m sure you may have read about it like at WordPress blogs under attack from hack attack but I was surprised when my custom permlinks did not work. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-do-you-monitori-in-mysql-2009-09-03/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:45:40 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-do-you-monitori-in-mysql-2009-09-03/ If you are unfamiliar with what to monitor in MySQL, starting with looking at what popular Monitoring products monitor. For example, the following is the list of MySQL Cacti Plugin measurements. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/sql-query-analysis-with-mysql-proxy-2009-09-02/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:34:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/sql-query-analysis-with-mysql-proxy-2009-09-02/ Long before there was the official Query Analyzer (QUAN), a component of MySQL Enterprise, SQL analysis was possible using MySQL Proxy . The following is an introduction to logging and query analysis with MySQL Proxy. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/seeking-public-data-for-benchmarks-2009-08-28/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:05:29 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/seeking-public-data-for-benchmarks-2009-08-28/ I have several side projects when time permits and one is that of benchmarking various MySQL technologies (e.g. MySQL 5.0,5.1,5.4), variants (e.g. MariaDB, Drizzle) and storage engines (e.g. Tokutek, Innodb plugin) and even other products like Tokyo Cabinet which is gaining large implementations. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-a-virtual-ip-address-vip-2009-08-26/ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:18:50 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-a-virtual-ip-address-vip-2009-08-26/ These instructions are for CentOS/Redhat Linux distributions. Identify your current NIC’s and IP addresses in use. $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:98:9C:A6 inet addr:192.168.53.201 Bcast:192.168.53.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: 0080::230:48ff:fe98:9ca6/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:6159779 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6137085 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1158210510 (1. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/getting-started-with-gearman-2009-07-26/ Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:42:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/getting-started-with-gearman-2009-07-26/ Gearman is an open source generic framework for distributed processing. At OSCON 2009 I attended the Gearman: Build Your Own Distributed Platform in 3 Hours tutorial. While it’s very easy to install Gearman, and follow the first example, if you missed the all important additional PHP steps listed on just one slide you may be left with the “‘Class ‘GearmanClient’ not found” error. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-sysbench-with-mysql-drizzle-2009-07-23/ Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:47:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-sysbench-with-mysql-drizzle-2009-07-23/ Sysbench is a open source product that enables you to perform various system benchmarks including databases. Drizzles performs regression testing of every trunk revision with a branched version of sysbench within Drizzle Automation . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/configure-error-mysql_config-executable-not-found-2009-07-23/ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:56:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/configure-error-mysql_config-executable-not-found-2009-07-23/ If your compiling a product that includes a dependency of MySQL, you can easily get the error configure: error: mysql_config executable not found I generally don’t see this problem, because I use MySQL binary tar files, however if you use MySQL packages, such as Ubuntu, you can easily miss the required dependency. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-different-mysql-index-implementations-2009-07-22/ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:37:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-different-mysql-index-implementations-2009-07-22/ It is important to know and understand that while indexing columns in MySQL will generally improve performance, using the appropriate type of index can make a greater impact on performance. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/whats-new-in-mysql-541-2009-07-16/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:56:19 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/whats-new-in-mysql-541-2009-07-16/ Absolutely nothing? 5.4.0 was released with a change in the MySQL Binary distributions , delivering only 1 64bit Linux platform and two Sun Solaris platforms. This was officially announced on April 21 2009 however the 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-to-do-at-325am-2009-07-16/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:33:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-to-do-at-325am-2009-07-16/ Look at MySQL bug reports of course? Well actually I’m writing multiple blog posts, and I was confirming additional reference sources and links when I came across MySQL Bug #29847 – Large CPU usage of InnoDB crash recovery with a big buf pool. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/never-let-your-binlog-directory-fill-up-2009-07-15/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:51:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/never-let-your-binlog-directory-fill-up-2009-07-15/ Recently with a client while running a number of disaster recovery tests I came across a nasty situation which was not part of the original plan and provided a far worse disaster situation then expected. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/getting-wireless-working-on-ubuntu-macbook-2009-07-15/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:29:30 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/getting-wireless-working-on-ubuntu-macbook-2009-07-15/ I run Ubuntu 9.04 Januty on my Macbook. Previously installing Ubuntu 8.10, wireless worked automatically, for 9.04 it did not. This is what I did to fix it. Verify your Macbook is seeing the Broadcom controller. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-more-innodb-mvcc-2009-07-15/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:09:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-more-innodb-mvcc-2009-07-15/ As I had written earlier in Understanding InnoDB MVCC , I am trying to understand why InnoDB is taking a lock on data during an UPDATE when I do not expect this to happen. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/killing-my-softly-with-query-2009-07-12/ Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:34:30 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/killing-my-softly-with-query-2009-07-12/ The MySQL KILL command as the name suggests kills queries that are running. After identifying the Id using the SHOW PROCESSLIST command, the User of the connection/thread or a database user with SUPER privileges can execute KILL [id]; to remove the connection/thread. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-perl-rrd-module-rrdspm-2009-07-11/ Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:05:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-perl-rrd-module-rrdspm-2009-07-11/ Perform a quick check if the module is available. $ perl -MRRDs -le 'print q(ok!)' Can't locate RRDs.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/verifying-mysql-replication-in-action-2009-06-28/ Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:58:38 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/verifying-mysql-replication-in-action-2009-06-28/ There is a very simple test to show MySQL replication in action and to also better understand the basics of MySQL Replication. With a configured MySQL environment we can run the following test on your MySQL master, and monitor the MySQL slave. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-value-of-multi-insert-values-2009-06-16/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:10:51 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-value-of-multi-insert-values-2009-06-16/ Baron got a great amount of response from his 50 things to know before migrating Oracle to MySQL . I’m glad I invited him as a fellow MySQL colleague to my presentation to the Federal Government on Best Practices for Migrating to MySQL from Oracle and SQL Server for his inspiration. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oreilly-twitter-boot-camp-a-success-2009-06-16/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:23:03 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oreilly-twitter-boot-camp-a-success-2009-06-16/ The first O’Reilly Twitter Boot Camp – #OTBC was held in New York as a pre cursor to 140 Characters Conference – #140conf on Monday 15th June, 2009. With opening and closing keynotes were like matching bookends of The Twitter Book #twitterbook offered to all attendees and authored by the keynoters @timoreilly and @SarahM . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/wafflecloud-with-cream-2009-06-14/ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:29:17 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/wafflecloud-with-cream-2009-06-14/ I have been working recently with Matt Yonkovit to get Waffle Grid cloud enabled with Amazon Web Services (AWS) . An initial version of Waffle Grid Cream – Version 0.5 release is now available. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/multi-threaded-memcached-2009-06-11/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:07:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/multi-threaded-memcached-2009-06-11/ I discovered while compiling Wafflegrid today that by default, the Ubuntu binaries for memcached are not-multithreaded. Following the installation of memcached from apt-get and libmemcached I ran memslap for: $ memslap -s localhost Threads connecting to servers 1 Took 1. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/problems-compiling-mysql-54-2009-06-11/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:54:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/problems-compiling-mysql-54-2009-06-11/ Seem’s the year Sun had for improving MySQL , and with an entire new 5.4 branch the development team could not fix the autoconf and compile dependencies that has been in MySQL for all the years I’ve been compiling MySQL. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-your-raid-configuration-2009-06-08/ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:26:14 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-your-raid-configuration-2009-06-08/ For any production MySQL Database system, running RAID is a given these days. Do you know what RAID your database is? Are you sure? . Ask for quantifiable reproducible output from your systems provider or your System Administrator. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/misunderstanding-raid-configuration-2009-06-02/ Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:22:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/misunderstanding-raid-configuration-2009-06-02/ Update 8 June 2009 Be sure you to check out some of my research including Understanding your RAID Configuration and Understanding PERC RAID Controllers . Last week I got caught thinking a MySQL production system wasn’t configured with RAID when it actually was. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/leveraging-the-power-of-twitter-2009-06-02/ Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:27:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/leveraging-the-power-of-twitter-2009-06-02/ Last week I posted the following twitter request — “Can somebody loan me (or buy me) a Dell 2950 decked out so I can run and publish some benchmarks. Please!” https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/for-mysql-dba-fame-and-glory-prize-included-2009-05-29/ Fri, 29 May 2009 18:14:38 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/for-mysql-dba-fame-and-glory-prize-included-2009-05-29/ I came across the following configuration today on a Production MySQL system (5.0.67) running 30+ blogs using WordPress MU . $ cat /etc/my.cnf [mysqld] set-variable = max_connections=500 safe-show-database No I did not truncate the output. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/basic-os-mysql-security-2009-05-28/ Thu, 28 May 2009 20:42:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/basic-os-mysql-security-2009-05-28/ If you can do either of these on your MySQL production server, you need to correct immediately. 1. Login directly to your MySQL server as the ‘root’ Linux Operating System user. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/announcing-drizzle-on-ec2-2009-04-26/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:45:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/announcing-drizzle-on-ec2-2009-04-26/ I have published the very first sharable Drizzle Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for AWS EC2, based on the good feedback from my discussion at the Drizzle Developer Day on what options we should try. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/compiling-libdrizzle-2009-04-26/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:00:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/compiling-libdrizzle-2009-04-26/ Compiling libdrizzle is a rather trivial task. The following are the steps I undertook on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid 32 bit. There was one pre-requisite from the most basic installed developer tools. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-mysql-on-amazon-web-services-aws-presentation-2009-04-22/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:28:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-mysql-on-amazon-web-services-aws-presentation-2009-04-22/ On Tuesday at the MySQL Camp 2009 in Santa Clara I presented Setting up MySQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This presentation assumed you know nothing about AWS, and have no account. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/identifying-resource-bottlenecks-memory-2009-04-02/ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:23:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/identifying-resource-bottlenecks-memory-2009-04-02/ Continuing on from CPU , we turn our attention to Memory. One of the first steps when addressing a MySQL performance tuning problem is to perform a system audit of the physical hardware resources, then identify any obvious bottlenecks in these resources. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-beginners-look-at-drizzle-getting-around-with-show-2009-03-31/ Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:17:47 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-beginners-look-at-drizzle-getting-around-with-show-2009-03-31/ Assuming you have successfully compiled Drizzle , and you are ready to start for the first time, here are some beginner differences with those familiar with the current MySQL 5.1 GA version. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/extending-vmplot-2009-03-31/ Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:26:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/extending-vmplot-2009-03-31/ Taking the work already done with vmplot.sh, a useful tool for MySQL performance tuning by Yves and Matt at BigDBAHead, and in true Open Source fashion I’ve enhanced and modified for my own purposes. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/your-code-your-community-your-cloud-project-kenai-2009-03-18/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:05:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/your-code-your-community-your-cloud-project-kenai-2009-03-18/ Following the opening keynote announcement about Kenai I ventured into a talk on Project Kenai . With today’s economy, the drive is towards efficiency is certainly a key consideration, it was quoted that dedicated hosting servers only run at 30% efficiency. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/beginner-csv-engine-issues-2009-03-12/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:58:03 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/beginner-csv-engine-issues-2009-03-12/ I’ve just started using the CSV engine for a practical application and I’ve come across a few subtle and unexpected issues/limitations. First, you can’t create any columns in your CSV table nullable. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/bad-memory-2009-03-09/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:44:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/bad-memory-2009-03-09/ I was having problems recently with a dedicated production server, that runs my MySQL Server and a number of websites. It’s most annoying when your system crashes without any reporting in /var/log/messages https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/are-you-monitoring-rss-vsz-2009-03-08/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:27:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/are-you-monitoring-rss-vsz-2009-03-08/ Monitoring MySQL Memory is a rather critical task because you can’t limit MySQL’s usage of physical memory resources. Improperly configured servers running MySQL can crash because you don’t understand memory usage. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/watching-a-slave-catchup-2009-02-24/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:48:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/watching-a-slave-catchup-2009-02-24/ This neat one line command can be of interest when you are rebuilding a MySQL slave and replication is currently catching up. $ watch --interval=1 --differences 'mysql -uuser -ppassword -e " https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/reducing-the-mysql-5130-disk-footprint-2009-02-11/ Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:58:34 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/reducing-the-mysql-5130-disk-footprint-2009-02-11/ The current size of a MySQL 5.1.30 installation is around 420M. $ du -sh . 426M . A further breakdown. $ du -sh * 213M bin 20K COPYING 9.8M docs 8. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/depending-error-installing-mylvmbackup-on-ubuntu-804-2008-12-15/ Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:34:14 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/depending-error-installing-mylvmbackup-on-ubuntu-804-2008-12-15/ I’ve started an investigation of MySQL Backups using LVM . I’m working with Lenz’s mylvmbackup but I found it both used Perl and needed a number of dependencies installed. Installing dependencies failed on my test system, yet I found it actually worked when I went back to my dev system (but it is not configured with LVM for full testing). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/some-mysql-pairs-terminology-2008-12-08/ Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:31:22 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/some-mysql-pairs-terminology-2008-12-08/ In response to a number of comments, I thought I would clarify the scope of my discussion regarding Options using MySQL pairs before I begin. As mentioned their is no one way or type of configuration for MySQL in a HA solution, however the simplest progression from a single Master/Slave environment is the concept of a pair of servers, configured to support a fail over and fail back via MySQL Replication. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/virtualbox-compiling-part-2-2008-08-18/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:06:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/virtualbox-compiling-part-2-2008-08-18/ So I managed to find all dependencies after some trial and error for compiling VirtualBox 1.6.4 under Ubuntu 8.0.4, then finding the Linux build instructions to confirm. It was not successful however in building, throwing the following error: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/unix-one-liner-list-open-files-2008-03-27/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:42:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/unix-one-liner-list-open-files-2008-03-27/ $ lsof -p [pid] https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/apt-dpkg-reference-2008-01-13/ Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:46:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/apt-dpkg-reference-2008-01-13/ I found a good reference page for Debian package management commands apt-??? and dpkg. Check out http://diablo.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/debian/apt-dpkg-ref.html https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-skype-2007-11-21/ Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:49:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-skype-2007-11-21/ A fresh install of my laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 after stuff just didn’t work causes pains sometimes of the installed programs. Skype being one of them. Goto Skype for Linux and get the Ubuntu installer. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ubuntu-tricks-today-2007-10-27/ Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:08:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ubuntu-tricks-today-2007-10-27/ ctrl-alt-l – Lock Screen ctrl-alt-d – Desktop # Multi Cut-Paste History apt-get install glipper Add to System|Preferences|Sessions|Startup Programs Thanks Yves https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/perl-tricks-2007-10-25/ Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:21:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/perl-tricks-2007-10-25/ perl_modules.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use ExtUtils::Installed; my $instmod = ExtUtils::Installed->new(); foreach my $module ($instmod->modules()) { my $version = $instmod->version($module) || "???"; print "$module -- $versionn"; } remove_perl_module.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w use ExtUtils::Packlist; use ExtUtils::Installed; $ARGV[0] or die " https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ubuntu-704-fiesty-2007-09-14/ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:51:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ubuntu-704-fiesty-2007-09-14/ I upgraded my work laptop to Ubuntu 7.04 Fiesty . The process was not as smooth as I expected. First it complained about not enough space on /var, so I cleaned up sufficient space. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/thinks-that-irk-me-2007-06-03/ Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:21:39 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/thinks-that-irk-me-2007-06-03/ As part of my job, I spend a lot of time assisting people when they are driving. But sometimes is can be trying. People that type commands, make a mistake, then backspace over typed text (like 10-20 characters), only to have to retype the text again. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-dirtree-alternative-2006-10-09/ Mon, 09 Oct 2006 04:42:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-dirtree-alternative-2006-10-09/ Linux has a cool command called dirtree that gives a more visual representation of your directory structure. If you have the misfortune of working on a Unix variant that doesn’t have it, checkout this cool one liner. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/determining-linux-video-driver-refresh-rates-2006-07-22/ Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:29:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/determining-linux-video-driver-refresh-rates-2006-07-22/ I found this cool command called glxgears that you can run under X. $ glxgears 10524 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2104.650 FPS 10003 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2000.501 FPS 8417 frames in 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-erasing-stuff-2006-07-16/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:18:42 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-erasing-stuff-2006-07-16/ Don’t try this at home unless you understand what it’s going to do. sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/qmail-admin-2006-07-03/ Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:10:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/qmail-admin-2006-07-03/ For some reason my vqadmin failed to create a new mail domain?? I know I had some /home permissions problems, but that was quite some time ago, perhaps I haven’t added a domain for mail in that time. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-finding-stuff-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 03:11:55 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-finding-stuff-2006-06-10/ Let’s say you created a file in your home directory but can’t work out which directory you put it in. <br /> $ find ~ -name somefile.txt<br /> You can replace ~ (tilda) with a directory e. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-parsing-long-html-urls-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:43:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-parsing-long-html-urls-2006-06-10/ Ever wanted to look at a long HTML URL more easily, say to investigate a parameter. Here is a search from MapQuest. http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&addtohistory=&address=10%20Market%20St&city=San%20Francisco&state=CA&zipcode=94111%2d4801&country=US&geodiff=1 <br /> $ echo "[insert url here]" | | tr "&? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-security-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:31:47 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-security-2006-06-10/ Here are a few useful one liners for Linux Security. View current packet filtering rules. (i.e. what can and can’t access your computer. <br /> $ iptables -L<br /> On older distros, iptables may not be in place. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-using-the-manual-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:19:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-using-the-manual-2006-06-10/ For users of Linux regardless of the skill level, using the OS manual is invaluable. Frank gives an example using crontab at Viewing a specific version of a man page , but as with Linux there is always more then one way to skin a cat. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-calculating-used-diskspace-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:12:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-calculating-used-diskspace-2006-06-10/ You can easily see the state of diskspace used with the command. <br /> $ df<br /> However, often you want to know where most of the diskspace is being taken. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/new-category-linux-one-liners-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:45:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/new-category-linux-one-liners-2006-06-10/ I came across Frank’s blog Programming – Powerful One liners – “What can a one liner do for you?” Great Idea, I often use one line Linux commands and in my current consulting role, I’m being asked more and more Linux questions, which often result in a one Line answer. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-better-vnc-2006-06-03/ Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:31:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-better-vnc-2006-06-03/ I’ve been using VNCViewer from RealVNC under Linux to remote connect to an older machine running windows. Two reasons, I don’t need yet another screen on my desk, and I need windows to adequately test and use the MySQL GUI products, in particular MySQL Workbench. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/firefox-java-plugin-2006-05-06/ Sun, 07 May 2006 06:44:39 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/firefox-java-plugin-2006-05-06/ Getting the Java (JRE) plugin working in FireFox under Linux. cd /opt/firefox-1.5/plugins rm libjavaplugin_oji.so ln -s /opt/jdk1.5.0_06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so . MozDev Reference https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-a-new-usb-external-drive-2006-05-06/ Sun, 07 May 2006 04:41:18 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-a-new-usb-external-drive-2006-05-06/ I’ve decide to move from CentOS to Ubuntu as the Linux Distro on my laptop, so it was time to do a full backup to a new USB external drive. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hacking-mysql-source-in-a-good-way-2006-04-26/ Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:55:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hacking-mysql-source-in-a-good-way-2006-04-26/ HackFest B: Creating a New SHOW Command by Brian Aker at the MySQL Users Conference Brian stepped through the steps for those attending to modify and deploy new functionality in the mysql server. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-mysql-5-via-rpm-2006-03-28/ Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:45:05 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-mysql-5-via-rpm-2006-03-28/ I don’t think I’ve ever installed MySQL via .rpm I have always installed via .tar.gz primarilarly because I’m an /opt system administrator from my old UNIX days. so my first experience installing on my CentOS 4. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-basic-mysql-installation-2006-03-27/ Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:03:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-basic-mysql-installation-2006-03-27/ Given a new Linux Installation, the following is my recommendation for installation of MySQL for a experienced software developer giving flexibility in a development environment. Under normal circumstances, most distros include MySQL either in a default server installation or on the distribution CD’s. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-should-i-install-2006-03-27/ Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:03:55 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-should-i-install-2006-03-27/ I was asked a simple question today by a collegue who is an experiened Java Developer and Oracle user and had just installed SUSE on his personal laptop, to align closer with his work environment. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/format-new-linux-disk-2006-03-26/ Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:17:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/format-new-linux-disk-2006-03-26/ fdisk /dev/hdb mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1 mkdir /u03 mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /u03 ls /u03 umount /u03 vi /etc/fstab mount /u03 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/another-dissappointing-mysql-article-2006-03-15/ Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:43:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/another-dissappointing-mysql-article-2006-03-15/ Another slightly disappointing article regarding MySQL, this one from a printed magazine. Below are my comments to the editor of Linux Format. The Dear Editor is an email link should others wish to make any comments. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/dbus-messaging-error-under-centos-42-2006-03-13/ Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:51:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/dbus-messaging-error-under-centos-42-2006-03-13/ The Problem I’ve been getting the following /var/log/messages errors: <br /> Mar 13 21:38:42 lamda dbus: Can't send to audit system: USER_AVC pid=3606 uid=81 loginuid=-1 message=avc: denied { send_msg } for scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t tcontext=user_u:system_r:initrc_t tclass=dbus<br /> Mar 13 21:39:17 lamda last message repeated 7 times<br /> Based on the command dbus-launch – Utility to start a message bus from a shell script. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/jmeter-performance-testing-software-2006-03-11/ Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:57:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/jmeter-performance-testing-software-2006-03-11/ Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/latest-mysql-versions-under-vmware-2006-03-06/ Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:30:30 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/latest-mysql-versions-under-vmware-2006-03-06/ I made reference previously to Testing/Trialing new MySQL Releases using VMWare. Well, I’ve just about completed my own Image for the lastest MySQL 5.0 (given I’m now running MySQL 5.1). I’m interested in sharing my experiences, and even providing some images for users if there is any demand out there. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oracle-comments-2006-03-04/ Sun, 05 Mar 2006 02:21:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oracle-comments-2006-03-04/ Some recent posts regarding Oracle (See Smart moves by MySQL AB and Larry Ellison still doesn’t understand open source ) leads me to put in my 2 cents worth. My background I’m sure like a lot of experienced MySQL people is in Oracle, and indeed in Ingres before that (starting in 1988). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tux-2006-03-03/ Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:24:19 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tux-2006-03-03/ We all know Tux as the Linux penguin, and those that know me, understand how much I hate Microsoft, and that my [core logo][1], as shown down the right of my blog with Windows Sucks is what I preach. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-workbench-101-first-impressions-2006-02-08/ Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:58:44 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-workbench-101-first-impressions-2006-02-08/ These are my first impressions of MySQL WorkBench 1.0.1. Rant and rave you may say, but a new user, or an experienced modeller would probably observe these points. Also, given that (with a poll? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/testingtrailing-new-mysql-releases-2006-02-07/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:57:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/testingtrailing-new-mysql-releases-2006-02-07/ By now, I’m sure you have all heard about Free VMware Player allowing easy and quick access to see, view and use other OS’s easily. For those Windows users out there, now is your chance to trial MySQL under Linux with no impact to your system, why wait. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-vmware-server-free-2006-02-07/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:34:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-vmware-server-free-2006-02-07/ VMware recently released the Free VMware player which allows you to test other OS’s easily in parallel with your current OS. They also provide the Virtual Machine Center so you can even trial easily a number of different pre-packaged solutions. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/running-internet-exploder-ie-under-linux-2006-02-07/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:22:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/running-internet-exploder-ie-under-linux-2006-02-07/ It’s really so simple, I’m surprised it doesn’t come bundled in distros. (Well I take that back, I’m as anti-microsoft as you can get, but unfortunately, we have to lower ourselves and our good work to the power of Bill who has it over those uninformed majority being brainwashed with a non-standard and flawed browser, that you have to break your code to get to work for it somethings). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-working-mysql-workbench-under-linux-2006-02-06/ Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:16:53 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-working-mysql-workbench-under-linux-2006-02-06/ I must admit I’d given up trying to get MySQL Workbench working under Linux. I guess I’d spent at least 4 or 5 days full time at it, and it was just out of my league, with GTK and C++ errors. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pae-support-part-2-2006-02-03/ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:42:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pae-support-part-2-2006-02-03/ I’ve solved the PAE Support problem with my current kernel of 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp. Referring to my earlier post PAE Support with the inability to get Parallels VM Software working under CentOS 4. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/solving-the-glibcxx_344-glibcxx_345glibcxx_346-error-2006-02-03/ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 07:58:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/solving-the-glibcxx_344-glibcxx_345glibcxx_346-error-2006-02-03/ Let’s review the problem. I’ve got this on a number of occasions and different libraries. Here are some typical error conditions. ./mysql-workbench-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.5' not found (required by ./mysql-workbench-bin) Error: Missing Dependency: libstdc++. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/burning-dvds-under-centos-42-2006-02-02/ Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:34:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/burning-dvds-under-centos-42-2006-02-02/ Attempt to update XCDRoast. Instructions at http://www.xcdroast.org/manual/dvd.html ` su - /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin wget ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu mv cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu cdrecord.prodvd chmod 755 cdrecord.prodvd exit xcdroast not configured for root usage xcdroast & You will get a warning message, this confirms that prodvd is installed https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/updating-nvidia-drivers-on-my-dell-5150-2006-02-02/ Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:32:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/updating-nvidia-drivers-on-my-dell-5150-2006-02-02/ Details at http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html The latest is 1.0-8178. I currently have installed 1.0-7174 With this version is an auto config tool to do the X conf changes as well. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/building-mysql-workbench-101-for-linux-part-2-2006-01-31/ Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:43:24 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/building-mysql-workbench-101-for-linux-part-2-2006-01-31/ Following my earlier post of MySQL Workbench 1.0.1 for Linux and logging a MySQL Bug, I’ve had the Bug verified, and the a further update of a compiler success. Details of compile from Bug #16880 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/downgrading-a-mysql-schema-from-5-to-4-part-2-2-2006-01-27/ Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:59:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/downgrading-a-mysql-schema-from-5-to-4-part-2-2-2006-01-27/ As requested by <a href=“http://mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com/2006/01/downgrading-mysql-5-to-mysql-4.html" target=_blank”>Frank, here are the working parts of my earlier Downgrading a MySQL schema from 5 to 4 article. The Problem To recap, I received a MySQL Version 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/win4linpro-trial-2006-01-26/ Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:31:14 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/win4linpro-trial-2006-01-26/ In my continuing effort of finding a suitable complete Windows environment under Linux for those small occasions when you just can’t ditch it, I’ve tried Win4Lin. You can download 2 week evaluation copy from the website. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pae-support-2006-01-22/ Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:55:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pae-support-2006-01-22/ Well, learnt a new one today. After a recommendation from a collegue about trying Parellels as a VM tool to run on Linux enabling some more virtual OS’s. (a.k.a. Like VMWare), I eagerly downloaded the rpm and installed. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/playing-avi-files-under-linux-2006-01-22/ Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:27:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/playing-avi-files-under-linux-2006-01-22/ Got myself some .avi files but didn’t have a player under CenOS 4.2. MPlayer would appear to rate well as a media player for linux. <br /> yum install mplayer<br /> yum install lame<br /> ` https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/support-for-technology-stacks-2006-01-22/ Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:34:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/support-for-technology-stacks-2006-01-22/ As part of my next conference presentation Overcoming the Challenges of Establishing Service and Support Channels I’ve been struggling to find with my professional sources, any quality organisations that provide full support for a technology stack, for example a LAMP stack, or a Java Servlet stack. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-format-reader-awards-2006-2006-01-04/ Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:55:13 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-format-reader-awards-2006-2006-01-04/ The Linux Format magazine is having it’s annual reader awards in a number of categories. These include (I’ve include my picks after each category): Best Desktop Application (Gnome) Best Distro (CentOS 4. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/christmas-present-2005-12-25/ Mon, 26 Dec 2005 06:00:51 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/christmas-present-2005-12-25/ I got a lovely christmas present today, and well it’s so me. And knowing the person in question, I’m assuming he got it from Think Geek. Thanks Andrew. View https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/further-to-the-firefox-debugger-problem-2005-11-29/ Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:01:47 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/further-to-the-firefox-debugger-problem-2005-11-29/ Installing the current version of Firefox 1.07 directly of course fixed my debugging problem. However, Firefox has now released 1.5 Available here. The problem is the debugger 0.9.85 is not supported in FireFox 1. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/change-mp3-bitrate-encoding-for-a-mp3-audio-file-2005-10-13/ Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:27:17 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/change-mp3-bitrate-encoding-for-a-mp3-audio-file-2005-10-13/ Get Lame from http://lame.sourceforge.net/ $ su – $ cd /src $ wget http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.96.1.tar.gz $ tar xvfz lame-3.96.1.tar.gz $ cd lame-3.96.1 $ ./configure $ make $ make install $ lame –help https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mount-window-share-under-linux-with-samba-2005-10-13/ Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:26:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mount-window-share-under-linux-with-samba-2005-10-13/ First check what shares are available for your Windoze Box (in this case it is at 192:168.100.36 with a login of and a password of ) $ smbclient -L 192.168.100.36 -U $ mkdir /mnt/ https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-samba-2005-09-13/ Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:22:51 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-samba-2005-09-13/ Running on CentOS 4.1 the following steps were use to install Samba. Install RPM’s $ rpm -ivh samba-3.0.10-1.4E.i386.rpm $ rpm -ivh samba-swat-3.0.10-1.4E.i386.rpm Start Processes $ /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start Check Processes $ ps -ef | grep smb https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/password-protecting-apache-site-for-external-users-only-2005-07-12/ Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:21:50 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/password-protecting-apache-site-for-external-users-only-2005-07-12/ In order to make an intranet an extranet, you need to place the intranet on a server in the DMZ. From here, configure a virtual server accordingly (e.g. intranet.site.com.au) You will need to configure on an internal DNS (or smoothwall /etc/hosts when using a webproxy) a reference to intranet. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/moving-from-standard-apache-httpd-install-to-virtual-hosts-2005-07-12/ Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:18:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/moving-from-standard-apache-httpd-install-to-virtual-hosts-2005-07-12/ First you need to create an appropiate directory for virtual host. (Using the example of creating an intranet) $ su – $ useradd intranet $ chmod 755 /home/intranet # needed for apache nobody process https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/configuring-ssh-for-automated-rsync-2005-07-11/ Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:17:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/configuring-ssh-for-automated-rsync-2005-07-11/ In order to rsync files between two servers in an automated sense, you need to setup an appropiate SSH key between both the source and destination servers. Destination Server $ cd https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/throttling-the-cpu-on-my-laptop-2005-07-09/ Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:16:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/throttling-the-cpu-on-my-laptop-2005-07-09/ Using CentOS 4.1 as the Operating System on my laptop for all my work, I’ve been able to throttle down my CPU when running on battery power to extend my battery life, much like the modes that Windoze provides. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/dell-5150-wireless-under-centos-40-2005-02-09/ Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:13:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/dell-5150-wireless-under-centos-40-2005-02-09/ Download ndiswrapper from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ Install make make install lspci lspci -n Identify and download Windows Driver. http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/List # Laptop: Dell Inspiron 5100 Card: Wireless 1350 (802.11b/g) WLAN miniPCI Card https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/dell-5150-64mb-ddr-nvidia-corporation-geforce-fx-go-5200-under-centos-40-2005-02-08/ Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:12:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/dell-5150-64mb-ddr-nvidia-corporation-geforce-fx-go-5200-under-centos-40-2005-02-08/ ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7174/README.txt Directly following the Fedora Core 3 installation I had to get the video to work. Therefore, at boot time, I went into the grub config file by pressing “e” https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-site-log-analysis-options-2004-10-07/ Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:11:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-site-log-analysis-options-2004-10-07/ Analog www.analog.cx Report Magic for Analog www.reportmagic.org WebStats for Analog & Report Magic patsplanet.com/software/webstats AWStats awstats.sourceforge.net Webalizer www.mrunix.net/webalizer wwwstats http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/ WUsage www.boutell.com/wusage/ (Free Trial, has cost) https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/development-software-suite-as-at-26-june-2004-2004-06-26/ Sat, 26 Jun 2004 07:05:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/development-software-suite-as-at-26-june-2004-2004-06-26/ Java J2SDK 1.4.2_4 http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html Tomcat 5.0.25 http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi JSTL 1.1 http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/intro.html MySQL 5.0.20 http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html Apache HTTP 2.0.49 http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi PHP 4.3.7 http://www.php.net/downloads.php PHPMyAdmin 2.5.7 http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ Eclipse 3.0 http://eclipse.org/downloads/index.php Eclipse 3.0 was released today. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/adding-a-second-ip-address-to-linux-server-2004-06-24/ Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:03:47 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/adding-a-second-ip-address-to-linux-server-2004-06-24/ If say you want to run apache and tomcat both on port 80 (default), you can create a seperate IP address on an internal network. For RedHat Distros $ cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/centos-3x-yum-errors-2004-06-20/ Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:02:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/centos-3x-yum-errors-2004-06-20/ When getting an error stating the PGP key is not correct rpm –import http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3 The PGP Key is also reportedly on each CD. More info at http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=29 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/changing-a-servers-timezone-2004-06-19/ Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:00:44 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/changing-a-servers-timezone-2004-06-19/ For RedHat 9 $ redhat-config-date (except this requires X) or $ clock $ rm /etc/localtime $ ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Brisbane /etc/localtime $ /usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov $ /sbin/hwclock –systohc The last two commands can be added to cron for regular syncing with running ntp