Data ports are allocated to FTP clients on connection so it is difficult to know which port an FTP user might be using when they next connect. To narrow it down a little (for a low usage FTP service) I restricted the port range in... » More
Nagios is is a useful tool for monitoring many servers and their services. At a glance (or via email) you can see which services/hosts are experiencing problems.Monitoring public services such as HTTP, FTP, LDAP, SSH are relatively easy but to go a... » More
The WebFX Tab Pane is a great javascript method of adding tabs to webpages. However I found that twhen using the Luna style the f;onts on Linux/Firefox defaulted to a Times type that was also a little too big. To fix this amend the tab.css file in... » More
I had this problem when trying to import an SQL file which was a dump from a MySQL database for Mambo: ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 142: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the... » More
When I was importing SQL data files into MySQL 5 (exported from MySQL 3.23) I ran into problems with collation types receiving the following error:ERROR 1071 (42000) at line 4659: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes ... » More
The MySQL Search Class available from 2404.co.uk is a useful quick way to implement a database search in PHP. However there is an error when doing table joins on approx line 110 of the code the following line: ... » More
Using the Joomla Latest Events module I received the following error message: Warning: array_key_exists(): The second argument should be either an array or an object in /path/to/website/modules/mod_events_latest.lib.php on line 241 Solved by adding... » More
Rsync comes pre-installed on many systems including Red Hat, Ubuntu and Solaris. Rsync is a useful tool for performing remote backups. It is very efficient as it only backs up the changes or differences in tany changed files rather than the whole file.... » More
Directories can be shared across the network using NFS on Solaris 8. I used the following to mount a directory from a remote system (named servermachine in the listings below) on a local system (clientmachine). On the Server (Host) The /etc/exports file... » More
If the SSH server on a host has been configured to listen on a non-standard port for example port 92 then normally we would connect with: ssh -p 92 theserver.tldRemembering and typing that -p 92 switch can be a pain in the |Configuring ssh on the client... » More