This only makes me slightly less happy than my last post!
Archive for the 'Daily Grind' Category
I upgraded Zend Core for Oracle on our soon-to-be production webserver at work tonight so it was running the latest build of PHP 5.2, and while I was at it I decided to make sure all its other packages were current.
It was quite sad, but the kernel was over a year out of date, so I had to kill our glorious 385 day uptime to restart the machine. While I was checking the latest version installed, I found this:
[root@web ~]# rpm -qa | grep kernel-
kernel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.9.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
kernel-2.6.9-42.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL
kernel-2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.105
kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
kernel-2.6.9-55.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.EL
kernel-2.6.9-67.EL
kernel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL
kernel-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-55.0.9.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-55.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.6.EL
kernel-2.6.9-55.0.9.EL
kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
kernel-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.EL
kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL
[root@web ~]#
I could be wrong, but I think that may be a bit excessive… By my count, that’s 9 individual kernel versions, each with their respective dependent packages. Wow…
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the word you first thought of.
- Burt Bacharach
How very true. I do that all the time…
After upgrading my Plesk install past 8.1.1, I encountered a problem with the builtin backup utility. When attempting to create a new backup (either locally or to an FTP repository), I would almost instantly be handed back the error:
Unable to create backup session: Specified file is not accessible
I googled around and found a couple of results, including a support forum that actually had the answer to my problem burried back on the second page.
For whatever reason, Plesk loses the ability to write to its temporary directory, where all backups are held until they are completed (even for FTP destinations). I was easily able to solve this problem by (as root):
chown -R psaadm:psaadm /var/lib/psa/dumps
Note that the original author of the suggestion I used said to chmod 777 the files, but this proved to be unnecessary. I saw that the parent directory was owned by psaadm, and it just made sense that the dumps directory would need to be as well.
In any case, it worked for me. Hope this helps someone…
AT&T TXT via Email Address
Just in case anyone else is wondering how to send an SMS text message to their AT&T wireless phone via email, the address apparently has changed through their recent acquisitions. Googling around only revealed the prior (non-working) domains, so I had to resort to the AT&T support page.
Horribly worded and a bit confusing as to which category you fall under, if you’ve signed up to “the new at&t” (as opposed to the prior AT&T, Cingular, etc.), your address is 10digitphonenumber@txt.att.net.
Happy texting!