Having the following error while trying to open the console of your guest VMs? Unable to connect to the MKS: Login (username / password) incorrect This is happening because the communication between your client computer and your vSphere host isn’t working properly. The main cause for this would be that the ports required for the… Read More »
When using the usual service shutdown is not enough (MySQL is still active, even though you have issued “service mysqld stop” or “/etc/init.d/mysql stop”), you can use this alternate method for a graceful shutdown : mysqladmin -uroot -p -h127.0.0.1 –protocol=tcp shutdown Or : mysqladmin -uroot -p -h127.0.0.1 shutdown
Did you had the following error lately trying to open a SSL Web site with Firefox? Error ssl_error_weak_server_ephemeral_dh_key This is because the remote Web server is using the weak SSLv3 protocol. The only way to get to the site would be disabling this SSLv3 check in Firefox. However do only if you know what you… Read More »
The following error may occur while reloading CSF (csf -r) : *WARNING* Binary location for [HOST] [/usr/bin/host] in /etc/csf/csf.conf is either incorrect, is not installed or is not executable *WARNING* Missing or incorrect binary locations will break csf and lfd functionality In this particular case, CSF was installed on a CentOS 7 server and there… Read More »
The following error is usually represented by a “pink screen of death” with the following output : PCPU 0 locked up. Failed to ack TLB invalidate. @BlueScreen: PCPU 0 locked up. Failed to ack TLB invalidate. NMI IPI received. Was eip(base):ebp:cs [0x76a42(0x41802f800000):0x412520x4010](Src 0x1, CPU2 The cause is that when interrupt occur, a context switch must… Read More »
If you are working on Juniper ScreenOS on a daily basis on a few platform/OS and SSH clients, you probably noticed that in some circumstances that the backspace or delete key isn’t working (it just does nothing, you cannot delete anything of what you have typed if you did a mistake!)… and this can be… Read More »
I end up facing the following issue with these symptoms lately : Emails from the outside not coming in and no outbound email going out (error returned trying to send a message) Very high amount of resources (CPU) consumed by the ClamAV engine The following errors that can be seen in the ClamD logs [/var/log/qmail/clamd/current] : LibClamAV… Read More »
Here is a two different redirection type you can do with Apache. There is quite a few more method possibles such as with rewrite rules as well which will be covered later. Redirect request made to a specific domain to a strict URL or domain. This will basically send the requests as is to the destination domain… Read More »
I recently had the following issue in vCenter : A non-existent network still associated with a virtual machine but marked as inactive. The VM has no longer any network interface mapped to that network but it still show in the network map and the VM overview. It turned out that a snapshot for this VM… Read More »
Having some pink square instead of images in RoundCube Webmail without any function or button to enable images? Well it happened to me after an upgrade. To fix this edit your RoundCube configuration file : /path/to/roundcube/config/config.inc.php Locate the following line (it should be around #90) : // mime magic database $config[‘mime_magic’] = ‘/usr/share/misc/magic’; Comment it… Read More »