So I ran into a problem which involved an out of space error. However, upon issuing the df -h command I found that there was plenty of disk space available on the partition (in this case /var). [root@server /]# df Read more…
Tonight. The words flow as hard as mahogany. The strife of how to say what needs to be said; to tell you what's on my mind without speaking. All through the memory of your eyes embrace, as though I could Read more…
Here's a quick method to check a list of servers (please keep in mind if you use names, they must resolve correctly for this to work). First, put all of your server names into a file with each server name Read more…
Here's a quick command line entry using sed to dump out a single MySQL database from a multi-database backup file. This script assumes the DB file is comopressed with gzip. gunzip -c sqldumpfile.sql.gz | sed -n '/^– Current Database: `your_db_name`/,/^– Read more…
For a tar file: tar -tvf file.tar For a tar and gzip file tar -ztvf file.tgz
I recently had to clear out a slew of accounts from a phpBB installation. In the process some private messages were not removed since I handled a lot of the removal process manually rather than through the phpBB interface. As Read more…
I recently ran into this initially horrifying and confusing problem. I logged into a Linux server to investigate a problem reported where the /tmp partition was full. A quick df -h gave me the information to confirm the report. Yes Read more…