Debian Wheezy Bind9 Failing to Start
After installing Bind9 chrooted to /var/lib/named in accordance to this guide (link), Bind9 is failing to start due to the following error noted in /var/log/daemon.log To resolve this,…
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iptables facepalm
Facepalm Friday I think! I recently reconfigured my iptables based firewall and stupidly forgot to allow access out to Akismet for spam filtering on WordPress. No wonder I…
Basic IPtables Firewall
This is a very simple iptables firewall scripts to get you started. I use this all the time as a basis. It allows for access to your system…
CentOS Install Types and Descriptions
CentOS 6 Install Option Descriptions for Desktop, Minimal Desktop, Minimal, Basic Server, Database Server, Web Server, Virtual Host and Software Development Workstation
OpenVZ Templates
Here’s a few links to the OpenVZ templates which include stable, beta, old and user contributed templates: http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/template/precreated http://download.proxmox.com/appliances/
CentOS Netinstall URL
These are the valid 32 and 64bit CentOS6 netinstall URLs. 32bit: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/i386 64bit: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64 Of course, you could have this mirrored locally – just replace with your local…
Nginx 1.0.14 Upgrade
Upgrade successful for Nginx 1.0.14 from 1.0.13.
Nginx 1.0.13 Stable Upgrade from 1.0.12
Just upgraded www.techish.net’s webserver (nginx) to 1.0.13 (latest stable). All is good. =) http://nginx.org/en/download.html
My screenrc Configuration
This is my user screenrc configuration file. Short and simple. startup_message off caption always "%{= Wk}%-w%{= Bw}%n %t%{-}%+w %-=" vbell off term screen-256color altscreen on bindkey "^[[1;5D" prev…
Enable Directory Listing in Nginx
How to enable Directory Listing in Nginx Webserver
W: GPG error: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available
W: GPG error: http://nginx.org squeeze Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY ABF5BD827BD9BF62 Resolution 1. gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key THEKEY…
Check for configuration errors with FAM/Gamin Library
Popup in Outlook and webmail: Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: filesystem notification initialization error -- contact your mail administrator (check for configuration errors…
LEMP + Cacti 0.8.7i
This is my setup of LEMP with Cacti 0.8.7i. LEMP stands for Linux nginx (prounounced Engine x) MySQL and PHP. Most notably, LEMP is just replacing Apache (LAMP)…
Apache Segfault when Navigating to WP-Admin
Argh! When trying to get into WordPress' administration panel, Apache segfaults. First troubleshooting steps involved moving all plugins/ to a temporary folder. This didn't produce any new results,…
Ncurses Motha F##ka
I love when I read through code as I'm hacking it up and I actually laugh out loud. This one got me today when I was hacking up…