May 6th, 2008 by Jarrod Goddard
A couple years ago I was doing some work on a client’s web site on a shared hosting environment at a small local ISP and I was setting up some file uploads with PHP and was having problems getting permissions setup and enabling them on the server. I had done it many times before but for some reason just couldn’t get it to work. I resorted to calling the ISP to ask if they had any non-standard setup or configuration on their server that would be causing me problems.
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May 1st, 2008 by Jarrod Goddard
I’ve used webmin for most of my user administration in the past just because of the ease of use, however I’ve been trying to move away from webmin and do everything myself from the command line lately so I’ve gotten back into adding users and managing passwords and groups from the command line. Because there are so many commands within Linux, it’s hard to remember all the commands unless you use them on a daily basis, so I’ve decided to document the process here to make it easier for myself to remember as well as to help out anyone else looking for similar information.
Also, these instructions will work on pretty much any flavour of Linux, I just happen to be working off Debian 4.0 right now, but they’re all standard *nix commands so if you are working off any other distribution you should be fine.
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February 29th, 2008 by Jarrod Goddard
I’ve finally completed the Linux/Unix System Administration Certificate from The O’Reilly School of Technology, and I am really glad I took the course. Like I said in my interim review, the hands on learning was what really interested me. My favorite courses in university were the ones where the professor gave us our assignments and said go ahead and do it, rather than lecturing for hours, and that same principle is applied in the O’Reilly School of Technology.
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January 16th, 2008 by Jarrod Goddard
I don’t have Plesk or any other control panel set up on my server, and I don’t have disk or user quotas setup because I like to manage my hosting myself, and I don’t provide hosting to a vast number of clients. So when I recently had a situation where I had to find a bunch of files taking up a lot of space on my server I talked to my hosting company, Rackspace, and they showed me a great script to look for files over a certain size on my server. I wanted to share it with all of you.
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December 24th, 2007 by Jarrod Goddard
Yesterday I finally made the upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. I was actually really behind, and still only had 6.06 installed. I have a Mac Pro that I do most of my work on, and then I have a laptop that dual boots Windows XP and Ubuntu so it’s not my primary machine and it totally slipped my mind. I actually tried to do the upgrade around six months ago to 7.04 but my apt-get database had somethings wrong with it and I didn’t get around to looking at the problem until today.
I’m not totally sure what the problem was, I got an error message whenever I ran sudo apt-get update and I couldn’t update or install any packages. So today I googled the message and found that I just had to delete a symlink and then it ran fine.
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