#!/bin/bash # mybackupadd – Add file to ~/.mybackup file, then backup and email all # file as tar.gz to your email a/c. # # Usage : ./mybackupadd ~/public_html/ # # Copyright (C) 2004 nixCraft project # Email : http://cyberciti.biz/fb/ # Date : Aug-2004 # ————————————————————————- # This program is free software; you can redistribute it [...]

#!/bin/bash # Shell script to backup directories from Linux server to Windows 2000/NT Server. # Run it as follows # Scriptname /home backup abc123 //server2000/backup # Backup /home directory from Linux box to NT/2000 box called # ‘server2000′ in share called ‘/backup’ with username # ‘backup’ and password ‘abc123′ # ——————————————————————– # This is a [...]

I’m making a post about this because I ran into this today and I couldn’t remember how to rename a file starting with — (two or double hyphens) in Linux (e.g. –index.html). The customer has obviously used a Windows FTP client to rename index.html to –index.html so it is out of their way, and now [...]

How do I rename a user name from ‘tom’ to ‘jerry’ under Ubuntu Linux? You need to use the usermod command. It can modify the system account files (such as /etc/passwd) to reflect the changes that are specified on the command line. The syntax is as follows: usermod -l {new-login-name} {current-old-login-name} In this example, rename [...]

Sometimes the GUI is just too slow. Learn how to resize images, add drop shadows, splice mp3s, clone hard drives and more with the command line. Here are a few tasks that you might want to consider using the command line for. 1. Resizing images Unless you are doing some sort of cropping there is [...]

Attempts to start or stop apache web service on Server > Services page fail with error ERROR: PleskFatalException Unable to make action: Unable to manage service by websrvmng: websrvmng: No such file ‘/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh’: No such file or directory System error 2: No such file or directory   Apache startup script name is specified with the [...]

Today while trying to run yum update for one of our server we got the following error. yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirror.bytemark.co.uk * atomic: www5.atomicorp.com * base: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net * extras: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net * updates: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net http://www4.atomicorp.com/channels/plesk/9.0/centos/5/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Solution: To fix this [...]

So login with SSH and enter as root. We need to make sure the correct lib directories are setup in ldconfig. Edit the /etc/ld.so.conf file and add the following lines. After you save it, run the command ldconfig /usr/local/lib /usr/lib Compiler install Because in many cases no compiler or maybe other incompatbile compiler is installed, [...]

By default, phpMyAdmin shows all databases available to a user. So, in addition to the databases that belong to the user, the information_schema database is also visible to them. To hide the information_schema database from phpMyAdmin on a particular MySQL logical server, add the following line to the phpMyAdmin config.inc.php file: $cfg['Servers'][$i]['hide_db'] = ‘information_schema’; Please [...]

In Parallels Plesk Panel 10.0.1 installed on RedHat 4 OS try upgrading any component through Autoinstaller in Parallels Plesk interface. The following error is shown: There was an error downloading: …… …… …… An error has occurred: exceptions.UnboundLocalError See /var/log/up2date for more information Error: The up2date utility failed to install the required packages. Attention! Your [...]