You’ll get this error when WordPress automatic update process, via svn or admin, fail or is incomplete. It leaves the file named “.maintenance” on your home or root directory, with info on maintenance. Sample content of .maintenance file: <?php $upgrading = 1282258195; ?> Just delete or rename that file and resume your update process, or [...]

Script utility to read a file line line version 2. This is simpler version of readline script, it also demonstrate how to process text data file line by line and then separate line in fields, so that you can process it according to your need. #!/bin/bash # # Shell script utility to read a file [...]

fuser command displays the PIDs of processes using the specified files or file systems. You can use fuser command to specifies a file on a mounted file system or a block device that is mounted. All processes accessing files on that file system are listed using -k option you can forcefully kill mounted file system. [...]

If you perform a Plesk upgrade, you may notice you are unable to unsuspend a domain from the Plesk control panel resulting in the following message: Warning: The domain is still suspended for the following reason: Domain is temporarily suspended for backing up or restoring. Looking at the message, it appears that a backup process [...]

You can perform a full backup of your account/domain from cPanel >> “Backups” option under the Files section. The full cPanel backup is very useful when migrating an account from one server to another. 1) Login to cPanel at http://yourdomainname.tld:2082 click the “Backups” option as shown in the screen below 2) On the next screen, [...]

Error: VFS: Error -5 occurred while creating quota. VFS: find_free_dqentry(): Data block full but it shouldn’t. Explanation: The error message “find_free_dqentry(): Data block full but it shouldn’t” appears in the server logs when the files “aquota.user and aquota.group” are mostly corrupted. The ‘fixquotas’ cannot read these files and thus increases CPU usage while quota update [...]

This article discusses the process of recovering deleted data from an ext3 partition, on a system running Linux, using a process called data carving. This basic technique is useful in any number of situations, such as recovering data that has been accidentally deleted by a user, information removed in an attempt to erase signs of [...]

There are a number of ways to kill a process if you know the name of the process. Here’s a couple different ways you can accomplish this. We are going to assume that the process we are trying to kill is named irssi   kill $(pgrep irssi) killall -v irssi pkill irssi kill `ps -ef | [...]

Q. I’d like alter / change the scheduling priority of running processes. How do I change the Priority of a already running process under CentOS Linux or any UNIX like operating systems? A. If you run CPU-bond processes you must use nice command used to start process with modified scheduling priority / nicenesses. renice command [...]

#!/bin/bash # Shell script utility to read a file line line. # Once line is read it can be process in processLine() function # You can call script as follows, to read myfile.txt: # ./readline myfile.txt # Following example will read line from standard input device aka keyboard: # ./readline # ———————————————– # Copyright (c) [...]