How can I see how big my WHM backup is?
Background Determining the size of a WHM backup is not entirely straightforward. For example, it’s not displayed in the daily report or in the UI.
Operating Systems
How to use an SSH tunnel and a SOCKS proxy to browse via another Linux box
Background Certain mail black delisting services such as Project Honeypot requires you to access their delisting page from the IP address of the machine that
How to deal with fatal error: sql.h: No such file or directory when installing pecl sqlsrv
Background Whilst following Microsoft’s official instructions on how to install SQL Server for PHP, you might encounter the following problem: /tmp/pear/temp/sqlsrv/shared/xplat.h:30:10: fatal error: sql.h: No
BASH – How to count the number of IP addresses in a log file
Background Sometimes it’s useful to see how many times a specific IP address appears in a log file. In this article we explore one method
An example of Grub settings – and when to run update-grub
Background Grub controls the boot process menu, and has a number of interesting settings. Here is an example of grub settings: Example ~$ cat /etc/default/grub
How update the hosts file on a Mac
Background If you need to view a website but the IP is not already pointing to it, then you can update your hosts file. Doing
How to add a route in Linux
To add a route in Linux, do this: sudo route add -host 192.168.90.2/32 gw 192.168.1.7 The /32 means a single host, if you want to
How to set a time server for CentOS Linux
Background This article explains how to set a time server on a CentOS Linux server. Install and enable the NTP service: yum install ntp systemctl
How to change the password of a Linux user
Summary To change the password of a Linux user, do this: passwd That will change the currently logged in user’s password. To change the password
netstat command not found on CentOS
Background If you run into a situation where you want to use netstat on CentOS or Redhat but you encouter: -bash: netstat: command not found