Category Archives: Linux

Check for configuration errors with FAM/Gamin Library

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Rich Kreider

Your ads will be inserted here byEasy AdSense Lite.Please go to the plugin admin page to paste your ad code. Popup in Outlook and webmail: Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: filesystem notification initialization error — … Continue reading →

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LEMP + Cacti 0.8.7i

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Rich Kreider

Your ads will be inserted here byEasy AdSense Lite.Please go to the plugin admin page to paste your ad code. This is my setup of LEMP with Cacti 0.8.7i. LEMP stands for Linux nginx (prounounced Engine x) MySQL and PHP.  … Continue reading →

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Apache Segfault 11

Apache Segfault when Navigating to WP-Admin

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Rich Kreider

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, still segfaulting. Here are some notes on how I went about debugging … Continue reading →

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Use hdparm to Benchmark Disk in Linux

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Rich Kreider

I use this often in the vm-land to test VMFS stores/LUN performance of new VMs I setup and I also use a few other benchmark tools to monitor how performance is impacted over the course of time. root@nitrous:~# hdparm -Tt … Continue reading →

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Install VMware Tools on Linux Guest

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Rich Kreider

The instructions are outlined by VMware here. These are my notes. To install VMware Tools in a Linux guest operating system using Compiler: Ensure that your Linux virtual machine is powered on. If you are running a GUI interface, open … Continue reading →

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