Tips & Clues

I see this fairly often when I have done fast installs of ubuntu:
"Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed."

What happens is I ignore the install script that needs to run for PhpMyAdmin to establish its database etc.
Happily the fix is fairly easy - just run the script again now:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

Just a liitle trick I needed to do to get my webmin access enabled in the vhost on Proxmox:

iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 10000 -j ACCEPT

Some key cmds that I had to use to get the networking operational on the proxmox server:


root@proxmax:/etc/network# vzctl set 103 --ipadd 192.168.3.88 --save

This will poke a new IP address into the config for the container.
The "/etc/network/interfaces" files that results will look like this:

At a CMD prompt run:
shutdown -t 0 -r -f

By default, the bash history does not keep tabs on the time of day that a given command was run. But it is really as simple as defining ONE environment variable: "HISTTIMEFORMAT"

This from "Linux by Example": HISTTIMEFORMAT takes format string of strftime. Check out the strftime manual to choose and construct the timestamp that suit your taste. My favorite is "%F %T ".

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F %T "

This is a cool little grep search to pull any IPs from a text file:
grep -Eo '([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}' file_with_ips_in_it.txt | sort | uniq

I finally bit the bullet and upgraded the site to Drupal V7 - it was pretty straight forward, a few glitches here and there, but overall, pretty smooth. It was worth waiting a few years for the code to be nicely cleaned up :)

A BIG Thank You to all those clever people that contributed to the Drupal 7 experience - there is no doubt about it - it is a fantastic product.

I have just spent a few hours getting familiar with this cool tool. Drush allows most housekeeping for Drupal sites to be done from a command line - it's a wonderful thing. Just take a look at how much I got done executing this single command:

Well - since Apache V2 the ONLY command to use is apparently "apache2ctrl" as follows:
Note this command will parse the VHOST configs and dump them to StandardOut...

sudo /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS