I recently had to provision a RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 system for a customer that owned a production system that I have provisioned four years ago. The new system requirement was to match the same package version as the old system (that they left un-updated since the deployment – fortunately for them it was an… Read More »
Encountering the following error with ownCloud? “Memcache \OC\Memcache\APCu not available for local cache Is the matching PHP module installed and enabled?” This usually mean that either the Memcache/APC module isn’t installed (or enabled), or a mistake in the ownCloud configuration is present. 1. Make sure the APC package is present on your system (the commands… Read More »
In some circumstances where you cannot use (or open) the task manager panel to see the logged in users on a system and need to terminate a opened session, you might need to know your way around the CLI to achieve this task. Those simple steps will show you how. 1. Open the Command Prompt… Read More »
If one of your hosted user (or account) have accidentally reached the max deferred message that can be sent over an hour (and the issue have been identified and fixed), you can unsuspend the mail delivery by deleting the following file :
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/var/cpanel/email_send_limits/max_deferfail_domain.tld |
For example, if the domain name is “itechlounge.net“, the command to execute… Read More »
This article will show you how to copy all outgoing email (transparently) of a specific user to another email account with Exim/cPanel. There is no built-in feature to do so, but we will use the Exim highly flexible filter scripting capability that can be achieve from the command line. 1. Log into your cPanel server… Read More »
If you are operating Ubiquiti wireless gear compatible with the Unifi controller, and running it on a Windows machine, you may have noticed that you need to start the application manually every time you restart the computer. Fortunately, there is a way of adding it “as a service”, just like any OS/system services. Follow the… Read More »
Using “screen” on Linux to perform your important work? Way to go, SysAdmin 🙂 Then you might at some point encountered the following behavior – while attempting to resume a session using “screen -r”, the following message occurred : There is a screen on: 1610.pts-0.host (25/08/18 08:25:36 PM) (Attached) There is no screen to be… Read More »
Similar as what you can do on linux with the Message Of The Day (MOTD), there is a way to display a message to users when they login to their session. Microsoft refer to this as a “legal notice” and can be achieved through the registry. 1. Open the Windows Registry Editor with elevated privileges… Read More »
The easiest way to get hardware serial and related information is using “dmidecode“. The command below should give you exactly what you need :
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dmidecode -s system-serial-number |
The command above does not usually work with “clone” computers/servers. Alternatively, you may use the command below, which will output all parts serial number availables :
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dmidecode | grep "Serial Number:" |
This tutorial will show you the simple steps to upgrade your Ubiquiti Unifi SDN Controller running on Windows. The software can be found on the manufacturer Web site (https://www.ubnt.com/download/unifi). We recommend using the LTS (Long Term Support) version unless you need the bleeding edge features. Upgrading to newer version might not allow downgrade in case of… Read More »