Host is blocked because of many connect...
Posted by tux in MySQL on 03 12th, 2009 | No Comments
Error:
“Host ‘xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’ is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with ‘mysqladmin flush-hosts’Connection closed by foreign host.”
If you get the above error for a genuine client connection to the MySQL server. You should consider to increase the...
How to setup local yum repository for ce...
Posted by tux in centos on 03 10th, 2009 | 3 Comments
You should already have /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo after installing centos. If you don’t have one create as below,
[c5-media]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Media
baseurl=file:///media/CentOS/
file:///media/cdrom/
file:///media/cdrecorder/
enabled=0
Then mount your cdrom to either /media/CentOS/...
Setup terminal session timeouts in windo...
Posted by tux in Windows on 03 6th, 2009 | No Comments
* Take Group policy editor
* Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Terminal Services \ Session \
More details can be found here,
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753112.aspx
remove pulse audio from fedora 9...
Posted by tux in Fedora on 03 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
Pulse audio is still buggy in fedora 9, so don’t use it. Problems encountered,
* No simultaneous access to the dsp device
* When switching from X to tty background audio crashes
So remove pulse audio and fall back to ALSA,
yum remove pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
Ext 4 filesystem stable released with li...
Posted by tux in Filesystem on 03 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
All should be well set to go ahead with migrating to ext4 filesystem, as stable version of ext4 is out with the latest linux kernel 2.6.28. Unlike ext2 to ext3, which was all about adding journaling feature to ext2, ext4 had lot of improvements.
Ext3 – 16 TB of maximum filesystem size, and 2...