Hello all, this is primarily so I don’t forget how to do this in the future. I needed to get a dump of a single table out of a remote database. This is the mysqldump command to pull that off: mysqldump -p –user user databaseName tableName > out.sql

I have it figured out! This is originally referencing the trouble I was having starting apache-2.2.10 and using mod_chroot-0.5 (http://www.uno-code.com/?q=node/155). You cannot use mod_chroot with apache-2.2.10. Apache-2.2.10 because apache has built in chroot support now. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html All you need to do is provide a ChrootDir variable in httpd.conf. The problem is that mod_chroot sets that… Continue reading Apache-2.2.10 and mod_chroot-0.5 – Issue is solved

This morning I was unable to connect to MSN, which is very frustrating for me. At first I just waited a bit to see if it was a MSN issue, but after receiving some IMs (via AIM/Yahoo, etc) of others that were also having trouble with pidgin. A friend of mine told me to emerge… Continue reading Pidgin MSN issues this morning

Today I tried to update apache-2.2.9-r1 to apache-2.2.10 and was greeted with the following errors in the error_log: [Sat Jan 10 09:37:30 2009] [notice] mod_chroot: changed root to /var/chroot/apache. [Sat Jan 10 09:37:30 2009] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: Can't chdir to /var/chroot/apache [Sat Jan 10 09:37:30 2009] [alert] (2)No such file or directory:… Continue reading Apache-2.2.10 + Mod_chroot-0.5 causes startup problems.

Apparently, Gentoo did away completely the `emerge sync` command/arg. I didn’t notice this, since I had a cron job that was running the following every night /usr/bin/emerge sync > /dev/null 2>&1 Obviously, I didn’t see the output since it was piped to /dev/null. This use to work and apparently they got rid of it completely.… Continue reading emerge –sync update

gst-python won’t compile I’ve been having trouble compiling gst-python-0.10.13 over the last few days. Today, I decided to get this figured out. When emerging gst-python, I receive the following error:

After compiling a new kernel for my gentoo vmware server, I ran module-rebuild -X rebuild, since I knew I needed to build vmware-modules against the new kernel tree. Shortly after the emerge, I ran into the following compliation error:

I’m really writing this down for my own benefit. I mainly live in the Gentoo world, so when I hop on a CentOS box, I usually end up cursing for a bit. I needed to change a system to use a static IP vs. DHCP. To view the IP or interface settings, you need to… Continue reading Changing IP on CentOS system

During my server disaster earlier mentioned, I decided to monitor the drives a bit more closely. The drives on the system were SMART capable, so I emerge’d sys-apps/smartmontools. Here is the description of that package: sys-apps/smartmontools Available versions: 5.36-r1 5.37 ~5.37-r1 5.38 {minimal static} Installed versions: 5.38(10:56:28 10/09/08)(-minimal -static) Homepage: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Description: control and monitor… Continue reading Monitoring S.M.A.R.T devices

Wow. Where to begin? Last week I had a crazy sequence of events related to one of my servers. After seeing a series of segfaults and memory errors, I started seeing corrupted files on the disk. This particular server is housed at a dedicated hosting facility. Their first look at the hardware they noticed that… Continue reading Server Collapse