There are quite a bit of antivirus software exist for Linux nowadays. One of the popular antivirus software is ClamAV. We will install Clam AntiVirus software from source and install it to a custom directory. We will also install gmp-devel package which installs GMP library. GMP library is used to verify [...]

I am reaching out to mysql experts out there! We just inherited a site which uses MySQL master/slave replication. We set up the master and slaves per MySQL documents and did some of our own tweaking in my.cnf to get things working. Things were great when we were testing the site but [...]

One of my clients asked me today to make their MySQL installation go back to default database install. Basically they wanted me to get rid of all their databases (in this case test databases) so they can start fresh and go live with only the databases they needed. So here are the steps [...]

Subversion is becoming more and more popular every day. To get quick installation guide, see my post on installing Subversion. Once you have Subversion set up, make sure you have backups of repository setup! This is one of those things most people forget to do. If you followed the installation guide [...]

One of the mysql database servers I manage started to have issues with doing backups yesterday. mysqldump was running but nothing was happening on the backup side. I started to investigate to see why our full backups were failing. I opened up the mysql error log file (mine is at: /usr/local/mysql/var/hostname.err) [...]