Linux administration topics, Apache, Webmin, MYSQl, etc
Submitted by kaharris on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 08:47
Recently i noticed hard drive space mysteriously vanishing on a company netbook. The problem was non intermittent and every byte of free space created was soon written to. The likely suspect was a log file but nothing in /var stood out as the offender.
A quick disk usage scan with Baobab revealed that the file was located in a user directory. Manually checking file sizes through thunar revealed the .xsession-errors file to be the culprit. Ballooning to a hefty 1.6GB it effectively made the system unusable.
Submitted by kaharris on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 10:32
Today I was feeling particularly adventurous. Having reliable backups of all databases on hand, I decided to upgrade MYSQL to the latest point release 5.150.
My instincts told me this was going to be a semi disaster, but nothing so bad that it wouldn't be recoverable. Upgrading through Webmin 1.5 was a snap and it used YUM to handle all the dependencies etc.
All sites with small databases seem to have been migrated without any trouble. But larger databases did not like the business of being transitioned at all. Needless to say most databases did not get upgraded on the fly.
