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Hot News

Dropbox and iCloud compatibility issue

9 October 2016·2 min readArchive

Dropbox is sending out the below email to all Dropbox users with new MacOS Sierra. The mail is received by those who are using Dropbox folder in MacOS Documents. You have 2 options to avoid any...

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MySQL

Last_SQL_Error: Error Table is marked as crashed and should be repaired

30 September 2016·1 min readArchive

Today we had an issue with our Master-Master replication. Master2 was throwing the below error and the replication was stopped Last_SQL_Errno: 145 Last_SQL_Error: Error ‘Table...

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MySQL

Got fatal error 1236 from master – MySQL – Broken Master – Master Replication

29 September 2016·1 min readArchive

Scenario You have a MySQL Master-Master replication setup, Lets say Master1 (LIVE) and Master2 (DR Warm Standby) Master2 server has been restarted for some reason. Now Master1 LIVE (the slave of DR)...

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Wait is Over – macOS Sierra is now available to download

20 September 2016·3 min readArchive

The much awaited macOS Sierra is now available to Download. Lets see how we can upgrade as soon as possible. Steps Login to your OSX and open App Store. If App Store is not showing the update, just...

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SysAdmin

How to install native BASH on Windows 10 – Not a VM ;)

18 September 2016·1 min readArchive

Native Bash is available now in Windows 10 as Windows 10’s Anniversary Update . Lets see how we can install it. Enable Developer mode in Windows 10 from settings >> Home, or search for Developer Mode...

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CentOS

httpd.service: main process exited kill: cannot find process “”

15 September 2016·1 min readArchive

Today apache was stuck with the below error and it was not starting at all. Sep 15 06:18:24 server.example.com systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server… Sep 15 06:18:24 server.example.com...

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AWS

How to set custom DNS on CentOS7 AWS

30 August 2016·1 min readArchive

There may be scenarios, when you need to use a custom DNS server for your Instances. So if you are deploying your application on an CentOS 7 on AWS, lets see how can set a custom DNS server such as...

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AWS

How do I assign a static hostname to a private Amazon EC2 instance running RHEL 7 or Centos 7?

22 August 2016·1 min readArchive

As a Linux System admin, we always love to work on CentOS and RHEL. In my case i had to launch a CentOS7 instance from the AWS Marketplace again. When we set the hostname with hostnamectl and reboot,...

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Hot News

Google Discontinuing Chrome Browser Apps on Windows, Mac and Linux

20 August 2016·1 min readArchive

Chrome launched Chrome apps three years ago. Today, approximately 1% of users on Windows, Mac and Linux actively use Chrome packaged apps, and most hosted apps are already implemented as regular web...

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AWS

EC2 Ubuntu – Allow SSH root login with Password

16 August 2016·1 min readArchive

Amazon AWS doesn’t allow root access by default on the OS level. Even though this is for recommended for security purpose, you may need to enable it for some high level operations such as conversion...

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AWS

New – AWS Application Load Balancer

14 August 2016·1 min readArchive

AWS has launched a new Application Load Balancer option on ELB. This option runs at Layer 7 and supports a number of advanced features. The original option is now knon as Classic Load Balancer, is...

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AWS

Liferay with S3 – The action Create Object in bucket cannot be performed with an invalid bucket: null

15 June 2016·1 min readArchive

Issue You are trying to integrate AWS S3 bucket with your Liferay Application. You have a dedicated IAM user, Access Key, Secret Key for the bucket. You are getting the below error. “ERROR: ”...

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