Out of Control®

Today, for the first time on one of our servers, I was unable to restart Apache. Running a configtest showed no errors, so something else was up. Looking in the Apache error logs, there was a line: "No space left on device: Cannot create SSLMutex". If you ever get this, chances are you are suffering [...]

I needed the pecl package geoip installed on one of my RHEL5 servers running PHP 5. This is an easy task but you might get a slightly confusing error which will stop you. First off there are two ways to install a PECL package. First is to simply issue a pecl command at the prompt: [...]

Are you responsibly for one or more servers. Perhaps you have a computer at home that you worry about at night, "What happens if my hard drive fails?" If this is you, then you need SmartMonTools. Actually, it comes pre-installed on most flavours of Linux these days, but amazingly enough, it is not set to [...]

To permanently exclude packages from yum when running update or check-update, simply edit the /etc/yum.conf file adding the following: exclude= [package1] [package2] [package3] List all the packages you to exclude here. Since others had asked the same question, I figured it was worth noting here.