Updating permissions on all files and directories within a directory
24 Apr, 2008
I extracted a tarball which had applied 777 (rwx) permissions to all files and directories that it contained. I wanted to set all files to 644 and all directories to 755, but there were too many levels to do it manually so I needed to do it through a shell script.
mysqld_safe using 100% CPU
30 Jan, 2009
Both my network monitoring servers suffered this condition over the 2wks my company takes holidays for Christmas so I returned to work to find 2 VMs consuming 6ghz of CPU between them. A quick check of top showed mysqld_safe consuming 100% CPU on both VMs for no apparent reason.
How To Resume A Linux Terminal Session After Suspending With CTRL-S
03 Mar, 2009
Many times I’ve gone to hit CTRL-K, S in a JOE session to save changes to a file but missed the “K” meaning I actually sent CTRL-S to the terminal which sends a “stop flow” signal.
SELinux Boolean Changes For Apache and PHP
22 Jul, 2011
With my new CentOS 6 web server I’ve decided I want to leave SELinux switched on if I can get everything configured correctly. In the past I’ve always switched it off but a little extra protection is always preferable.
Install suPHP on Centos 6
19 Mar, 2012
These instructions will provide a fully functional suPHP installation on CentOS 6.
Install RHEV Agent on RHEL 6
27 Mar, 2012
How to install the RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation) agent on a RHEL 6 server.