Linux System Admins Blog

One of our Drupal sites suddenly had this “blank page” problem after user login.  So we turned on the PHP’s error reporting and got the “allowed memory size of xxx bytes exhausted” error.  Usually this error is caused by memory limit for PHP so you just need to increase it from your php.ini file or [...]

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The whole hidden IFRAME vulnerability has been going on for some time, only a few of our client have been effected by this. The net is still buzzing with this issue and while some are saying that the injection are results of php insecurities, mysql injection or cross site scripting, while others point to key [...]

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If you are using a shared server, or just have a limited account on your company servers, you might not have access to your php configuration file php.ini (this is usually found under /etc/php.ini in rhel/centos and /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini in debian/ubuntu). Still, in many situations it might be needed to enable php errors in the browser [...]

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Problem: I got this error when installing hpacucli on Lenny and i can’t find it on my default repo.  Others have similar problem.
Solution: I just installed a package directly from packages.debian.org and this worked fine for my hpacucli in Lenny.
Any idea why this library is not included anymore?

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Google webmail is down people…
However mail can be retrieved and sent via IMAP/POP and SMTP. Fire up your favourite email client (I like Mozilla Thunderbird) in the meantime.

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After a long development time, Centos 4.8 was finally released on the 21st August. This is a good thing that after the latest problems between the centos developers, they were able to pull this out finally and now be able to focus on the upcoming 5.4 release.
There are no major changes in this update, mostly [...]

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