Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds. It is widely used not only on Unix-like operating systems but also in many other computing systems. It is neither a [...]
Counting up to the UNIX Epoch time reading 1,234,567,890!
February 9th, 2009 | Posted in Blog, Debian, FreeBSD, Linux | No Comments
Travian
February 9th, 2009 | Posted in Blog, Linux | No Comments
Travian is a browser game with a world full of thousands of users who all begin as the leaders of small villages… you can wage wars with your enemies, trade with far far away exotic villages.. all from the comfort of your browser! http://www.travian.co.uk/?uc=ukx_524 Signup today, new game just commenced!
MySQL Replication
February 8th, 2009 | Posted in Blog, Linux, MySQL | No Comments
MySQL database replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database on another server which allows you to setup an application to read from, i.e. auth. All changes to the “master” server is replicated across to the “slave” server instantaneously. This is not a backup technique… any accidental DELETE queries on the master [...]
PowerDNS 2.9.22 RPM’s
February 5th, 2009 | Posted in Linux, PowerDNS | No Comments
The latest (dynamic) RPM’s for PowerDNS can be downloaded below. Please note, these RPM’s only include the MySQL and pipe backend! pdns-2.9.22-1.i386.src.rpm pdns-2.9.22-1.i386.rpm
Grep Highlighting
January 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Linux | No Comments
If you’ve ever wanted your search string highlighted when grepping through masses of logs etc you can add the following alias to ~/bashrc to do just this. alias grep=’grep –color=auto’
PowerDNS 2.9.21-2 RPM's
January 17th, 2009 | Posted in Linux, PowerDNS | No Comments
The latest (dynamic) RPM’s for PowerDNS can be downloaded below. Please note, these RPM’s only include the MySQL and pipe backend! pdns-2.9.21-2.x86_64.src.rpm pdns-2.9.21-2.i386.src.rpm pdns-2.9.21-2.x86_64.rpm pdns-2.9.21-2.i386.rpm Or you can download the GPL source tarball which includes the spec files for both x86_64 and i386 pdns-2.9.21-2.tar.gz
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
January 16th, 2009 | Posted in Debian, Linux, Xen | No Comments
After creating a new VM on Debian Lenny, I got the following when trying to ssh into the DomU; PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 stdin: is not a tty Run the following to fix the issue; apt-get install udev
Policyd Build Error
December 21st, 2008 | Posted in Debian, Linux | No Comments
policyd error Your OS doesnt support MSG_NOSIGNAL or SO_NOSIGPIPE apt-get install g++ gcc policyd.h:52:19: error: mysql.h: No such file or directory apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
repair corrupted journal
December 21st, 2008 | Posted in Linux | No Comments
boot from cd – linux rescue sh-3.1# umount /mnt/sysimage/data sh-3.1# tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda6 sh-3.1# e2fsck -y /dev/sda6 sh-3.1# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda6 /mnt/sysimage/data sh-3.1# rm -f /mnt/sysimage/data/.journal sh-3.1# umount /mnt/sysimage/var sh-3.1# tune2fs -j /dev/sda6 sh-3.1# exit
umount: device is busy
December 17th, 2008 | Posted in Linux | No Comments
To see what processes are accessing the disk partition you can use either lsof or fuser. lsof /tmp mysqld 13103 mysql 6u REG 8,6 0 12 /tmp/ibisfIna (deleted) mysqld 13103 mysql 7u REG 8,6 504 13 /tmp/ibjWhwnX (deleted) mysqld 13103 mysql 8u REG 8,6 0 14 /tmp/ibi5qTnK (deleted) mysqld 13103 mysql 12u REG 8,6 0 [...]