thoughts and projects
Over the years innodb has caused me more trouble than anything else in the LAMP stack. MyISAM tables seem to work and repair without issue. Innodb seem to be endless trouble. Alas, clients need them so I have to make them work. Today a mysql server crashed and wouldn’t restart. A few of the errors: …
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My proxmox 6 test install locked up every day or two. Here is the fix. This in particular seems to apply to common hardware on Hetzner servers. In /etc/default/grub, update this line : Reboot and you should find your server stable. Read more on the proxmox forum at https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/random-crashes-reboots-mit-proxmox-ve-6-1-auf-ex62-nvme-hetzner.63597/page-2
If your ssh session inside of gnu screen starts to show messages like : Press, control-a (or your mapped key for this) then v Screen will display: Just press enter. I do not think this is the proper fix but it does fix it. I believe the cause is mistyping another control sequence.
I needed to distribute, backup and install some files to a large number of servers today. I had wrote most of a small script when I was reminded of a maxim that I often forget: Make use of package managers. Everything my script did a package manager would do much better. The quickest way to …
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Every version of mac mail seems to have new ways to make the setup and configuration of pop3 mail not work. Today I ran into a new problem and solution. This particular fix is for accounts that are set up and working but will not save changes made to the configuration after the initial setup. …
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Note: none of this actually works – just notes for now. source: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-docker-in-rhel-8 source : https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-install-docker-ce-on-centos-8/ Enable on proxmox : on host node
Firefox now refuses to load sites offering less than TLS 1.3 – at times you may need to allow this for a particular site to load/testing/etc. However how do you re-enable for the warnings? Type : into the address bar and then search for “TLS” You’ll find this entry : Change it from true to …
For years I have somehow thought moving vpopmail domains between vpopmail installs was hard (ie. from one server to another). I even went so far as to custom build vadddomain binaries which forced creation to a particular directory (ie: /home/vpopmail/domains/0/, /home/vpopmail/domains/1/). If you are not familiar with the “problem” it is that in larger installs …
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