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Disable Firewalld on CentOS
How can I disable Firewalld on CentOS Linux? That’s is one of the main questions asked on forums and places when you are a beginner working on CentOS systems. The short answer is, you don’t need to disable it, that’s the easy workaround. However, if you don’t have time to play with firewalld and learn how it works,…
Read More »ifconfig command
The ifconfig command is a very popular tool available on most Linux distros. The name “ifconfig” comes from “Interface Configuration”, it is used to check our system’s network interface and we can also use it to change some of the network interface settings. By using ifconfig we can quickly take a look at the different settings of our…
Read More »skip-name-resolve: how to disable MySQL DNS lookups
MySQL Reverse DNS lookups are often the cause of long delay and slow MySQL performance when running certain SQL queries. Sometimes it takes hours or days to detect that the problem in your slow SQL connection times is indeed caused by the skip-name-resolve variable located inside your MySQL configuration file. This tutorial applies to the following scenarios: Disabling…
Read More »ifconfig: command not found
Today I was setting up a new cloud server and needed to use the classic ifconfig command. I wasn’t able to do it because of this error: ifconfig: command not found It seems CentOS 7.x doesn’t come up with ifconfig installed by default on the minimal ISO image I used. ifconfig command is no longer installed by default…
Read More »How to setup a Remote MySQL Database Connection
90% of the times you connect to a MySQL database it is done by using “localhost” as the host inside the connection settings in your PHP files, as most of you host the files and the database on the same server. However, especially in high traffic websites, a remote MySQL database is needed. In other occasions, you will need…
Read More »Windows XP can’t connect to Samba on CentOS 7.x
I have a customer that has two servers, one with CentOS 5.x and Samba 3.x, it was able to connect from all kind of Windows computers to the shared directory by Samba. However, on a new CentOS 7.x running Samba 4.x, all machines could connect except the ones using Windows XP, and some Windows Server 2003 clients. The…
Read More »A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to one or more of its recipients
This is a pretty frequent error on all email systems. Often cPanel based customers report this mail delivery warning, and they think the mail server is failing, or it is a hosting problem. The exact error message would look like: From: Mail Delivery System [email protected] Subject: Warning: message 1fQdkg-00023y-1r delayed 24 hours This message was created automatically by…
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