I have a couple of file servers in my network running Samba 3.6 as member servers. Something that you would want to get going at some point is syncing the UID/GID across the machines so that if you want to move the data around the uids/gids are the same. The way to make this work …
When trying to convert a running Linux machine with the stand alone converter I came across this error: I checked around the internet and came across this post. The guy worked out that he had a bunch of stuff in his hosts.allow and hosts.deny and added the other correct subnets and it worked. I checked …
VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone – key can’t be retrieved. (return code 2) [SOLVED] Read More »
I use Wordpress as my CMS of choice for all my client sites for a number of reasons. This includes the theming capabilities and extensibility though plugins. Sometimes when building a client site I will use a commercial theme as a basis and one place I get my themes from is WooThemes. They offer some nice …
After writing the article yesterday about removing a slave from a MySQL replication setup. I was digging around the mysql data directory and noticed that the innodb data file hadn’t reduced in size after I dropped the database. There is a reason for this. MySQL will not garbage collect the old data as it’s all …
There might be a time that you no longer need a MySQL slave in your replication setup. You can remove a mysql replication slave using the following instructions. Log in to your mysql slave and make sure that nothing is accessing the slave database. Run the following commands. Note: There is a space between the …
