Physical volume for RAID missing in Ubuntu 16.04.4
Anonymous asked: I am trying to configure software RAID 1 on ubuntu 16.04.4, but the option “physical volume for RAID” is missing during the disk partitioning process.. Does anyone have …
How to retain blockdev changes after server restart?
Michael Rogers asked: I am setting block device read ahead buffer size like so: blockdev –setra 8192 /dev/sda As suggested here. The problem is after restart it goes back to …
SquirrelMail doesn't send or receive any mail
nameless asked: I just tried to set up a mail server on my Ubutnu 14.04. The goal is to be able to send mails from [email protected] and receive mails sent …
convert upstart to systemd – run command as root, spawns command off as another user
Dubl1n asked: I need help with converting an upstart .conf into a systemd .service. Essentially what my .conf file does is this: exec su -l foo -c ‘cd /var/www/path/to/file ; …
Fix packages in broken state when /boot is full
Rikudou_Sennin asked: I noticed that my /boot partition is full (it has only 485M) and apt failed since it cannot install new kernel. When I do apt -f install it …
On ESX, does a Ubuntu VM re-use free space in the VM, before expanding the virtual disk?
KolonUK asked: I have a thin-provisioned Ubuntu 18 VM on ESX 6 with one virtual disk that is using almost all the underlying physical disk (I have a new 4TB …
Redis with custom data dir: systemd config file changed automatically?
Andrei O asked: I’m running Redis 4.0.9 on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS with a custom data dir for the RBD file. To make this work, besides updating the dir in redis.conf …
Issues with WordPress container configured for external database host
A br asked: I am trying to run the WordPress container, configured to use an external MySQL database server like so: docker run –name wordpress1 -p 801:80 -e WORDPRESS_DB_HOST=MYDBSERVERIPADDRESS:3306 -e …
Enough memory but OOM killer invoked?
MikeSkril asked: It has been a long time since my old friend the OOM killer came to visit me. Now it is coming by once a week and I cannot …
Convert apache config to nginx equivalent for logs
Master asked: I have this custom log in apache SetEnvIFNoCase User-agent “ELB-HealthChecker/2.0” skiplog LogFormat “%t \”%r\” %>s %O | client:%a | Local:%A | Host:%v | %H | %m | %P(pid) …