Allister Jenks
Serial tinkerer. I know more than I can believe about the Linux command line, but not enough to be confident.
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How to find the cause of my CentOS 7 woes – networking and more won't start
I eventually discovered after booting to Recovery ISO and running fsck – which reported NO errors – that the subsequent reboot was … -
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How to find the cause of my CentOS 7 woes – networking and more won't start
I tried doing my usual yum updates and they failed with a "killed". I then followed a series of steps to try to recover this. After I finally got yum happy, I rebooted the server, only to find it uncontactable. So far... -
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How does MySQL manage memory?
I have a 1GB memory Droplet on which I am trying to run a LAMP stack with (so far) a few WordPress sites. For a lot of the time everything runs fine, but now three times in less than a week MySQL has crashed. On each ... -
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Do Spaces support HTTP/1.1 and byte range requests?
There must have been some sort of glitch in the matrix. It’s working fine now.Accepted Answer: There must have been some sort of glitch in the matrix. It’s working fine now. -
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Do Spaces support HTTP/1.1 and byte range requests?
I was hoping to use a Space to store my podcast files however, I've stumbled at the first hurdle. I'm using the Blubrry PowerPress plugin on WordPress and when I ask it to verify the file at the Spaces URL it errors w...Accepted Answer: There must have been some sort of glitch in the matrix. It's working fine now. -
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How can I get fail2ban to install on Centos 7.4?
Solved. While checking for any package updates I noticed the epel repository was erroring with a 404. Once again I removed the repo…Accepted Answer: Solved. While checking for any package updates I noticed the epel repository was erroring with a 404. Once again I removed the repo… -
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How can I get fail2ban to install on Centos 7.4?
Bit of a noob on the command line, and have scoured many answers to problems with fail2ban and Centos 7.x (I'm on 7.4), none of which seem to get me past my problem. I've done yum install epel-release and this shows i...Accepted Answer: Solved. While checking for any package updates I noticed the epel repository was erroring with a 404. Once again I removed the repository, cleaned, and re-installed. A different version of the repository resulted and ... -
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How can I stop my domain from displaying the IP address?
Solved! The issue was Safari (macOS) caching the DNS entry from prior to the config changes. I flushed the DNS cache with the fo…Accepted Answer: Solved! The issue was Safari (macOS) caching the DNS entry from prior to the config changes. I flushed the DNS cache with the fo… -
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How can I stop my domain from displaying the IP address?
I've read countless questions and answers almost identical to my problem but cannot figure this out. Environment is Apache 2.4.6 on CentOS 7.4. I have my nameserver records with DO: A jenks.nz points to my droplet CNA...Accepted Answer: Solved! The issue was Safari (macOS) caching the DNS entry from prior to the config changes. I flushed the DNS cache with the following command on macOS 10.13 High Sierra (should also work on 10.12 Sierra). sudo killa...