So your Ubuntu server doesn’t want to upgrade MySQL using apt-get and fails with the following error? mysql_upgrade: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user ‘debian-sys-maint’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) while connecting to the MySQL server Upgrade process encountered error and will not continue. Thankfully the fix should be fairly easy to carry out. For some reason …
I have a Digital Ocean server that I SSH into from my laptop for mainly development purposes. But I also want to do scheduled downloads of the server backups from a server at home. So I need to SSH from a new machine to my server with no user prompt. Easy, but it always prompts …
I’ve started working on Doc5 from a laptop in the last few months and have begun the pull/push process to get my Bitbucket repo and desktop machine all in sync. But when trying to get these sorted I found permissions problems on one of the local repos. When I tried to do a pull I …
If you’re a Ubuntu user who finds themselves with an ugly message like this one day when running a apt-get update, No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error you may have thought you’ve run out of disk space and run the command, df -h but then found you had …
I’m sure everyone else knows about the iftop tool, but it was new to me. I needed to confirm that traffic from DRBD was using a particular interface and iftop does the job by showing traffic sources, speed and culmulative data counts per interface.
Every now and again I clone a VM and add it to another host. ESXi prompts you for a new UID when you start the VM and I always remove the virtual network card(s) from the machine and re-add them later. I do this to make sure I don’t have two machines with the same …
After updating my trusty old server to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 the installation of VMware Server 2.0.1 started giving problems. Resinstalling VMware didn’t help as I was repeatedly getting compilation problems in vmmon and vmnet modules. Luckily I stumbled across the following process from one of the VMware forum pages which pointed to a great …
Some things work well on their own but when mixed make your life hard. Things like Linux and PHP work very well. Microsoft ISA proxy also does a good job in a corporate MS environment. But making the two work together in a controlled environment can be an exercise in frustration. In this post I’ll …
I’ve been looking around for some easy and open-source ways to handle database replication for a handful of small but important MySQL databases. A few options were viable but usually included too many config changes for things like creating a new database. DRDB on a Linux server seems to be one of the fastest and …
After downloading the latest Windows 7 RC I loaded it into VMware Server 1.06 that I installed on Ubuntu Server a while back. All going well until the Windows 7 installer wouldn’t see the disk I had created. It seems that Windows 7 doesn’t like the SCSI virtual disk, so I removed that and created …