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Trying to figure out how to put your second monitor and dual port graphics card to good use in FC9? How about creating a virtual desktop that will span the second monitor. Resist the urge to edit xorg.conf and think about the layout or position the second monitor will take. I like to have my [...]

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Happy sysadmin day to my fellow colegues! I hope we will have a ‘quiet’ weekend to celebrate this properly, and not have to deal with any unexpected emergency…

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Here’s a little post on how to change the master database host that the replication slave in a MySQL replication setup uses. This can happen if there is a change in network addresses or when you want to switch over to using different internal network. The main thing to keep in mind is that when [...]

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Issue: Apache does not start, gives the following error

965 File size limit exceeded$HTTPD -DSSL
Cause: Apache Log or Domain Log file exceeded 2GB
Solution: Rotate offending log file by tar/gzip’ing

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Issue: Hosting account do not show up in WHM

Cause: /etc/trueuserdomains file which holds a list of account on the server is empty
Solution: restore contents of /etc/trueuserdomains and update cpanel with /scripts/upcp
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Very funny: http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/

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