missing start-stop-deamon on centos 6.8
Mher Harutyunyan asked: I am trying to run node_exporter for prometheus on centos 6.8. Here is the init.d script I was able to create: #!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # …
Using /dev/shm folder for pid files on RHEL6/CentOS6?
Boying asked: RHEL7/CentOS7 has a dedicated folder: $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (e.g. /run/user/1000) for pid files, that folder is a tmpfs. However RHEL6/CentOS6 does not have $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. RHEL6(also RHEL7) has a folder using …
Install multiple PHP on CentOS 6.10
NetworkNewbie asked: I have PHP 7.0 on my VPS with CentOS 6.10 and there is an application that needs PHP 7.1 and above. Also, there’s a separate application that uses …
Installing GD Library on Centos 6.7 and PHP 5.4
keeg asked: Versions: centos-release-6-7.el6.centos.12.3.x86_64 PHP 5.4.45 Installed GD using yum: $ yum install php54w-gd Installed: php54w-gd.x86_64 0:5.4.45-2.w6 Restarted: $ service httpd restart Checked Running: $ rpm -qa | grep php …
Constant ACPI errors in /var/log/messages on Centos 6.10
Codemonkey asked: /var/log/messages is full of this, occurring every second. I can see this has been going on for at least 4 days but any older logs have been purged. …
"is allowed multiple installs, skipping" prevents downgrade of kernel on Centos6
Peter Kahn asked: I have 2.6.32-696.23.1.el6.x86_64 installed and would like to downgrade to 2.6.32-696.10.3.el6.x86_64 but the following command results in a skipping message: yum downgrade -y –disableexcludes=all kernel-2.6.32-696.10.3.el6.x86_64 Loaded plugins: …
Can the number of CPU cores be reduced for a CentOS virtual machine?
Will asked: Our VMware admins tell me that we can add additional virtual CPU cores to our VM’s, but they tell me that we can’t reduce the number of virtual …
Unable to Install PHPMyAdmin on CentOS 6
Michael Smith asked: I am attempting to update all my software on my CentOS 6 Server. I have updated from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.2 and now trying to install …
Shell script with executable permissions returns "command not found"
Roy Hinkley asked: I have a shell script file with executable permissions: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1147 Jan 26 2017 my_script Even running it as root – fully qualified (path/to/file/my_script) …
full /etc/ recovery from git
stvn asked: I have a CentOS 6.9 server. The full /etc directory was under version control. I accidentally ran ‘git rm -R’ on it. The server stopped working right away, …