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Class ‘OAuthSignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1′ not found

Jason Gegere — Fri, 13 May 2011 19:55:50 +0000

If you’re getting an error to the tune of It’s because you’re trying to use the PEAR OAuth library + abraham’s library at the same time or some other oAuth library. I suggest finding your php.ini and commenting out what

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Creating a SSH key – using rSync and SSH

Jason Gegere — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:38:31 +0000

I need to generate a private/public pair of keys to allow a ‘ssh’ connection without asking for a password. This may sound dangerous, and it is, but it is better than storing a user password (or key password) as clear…

Nagios – Check Host without Ping

Jason Gegere — Sun, 30 May 2010 16:14:40 +0000

There are many good reasons to disable ping on a server. Typically I disable ping (ICMP) on my servers and add a iptables entry to allow the nagios monitoring service complete access to…

How to Resize Partition without Data Loss – Part 1 of 3

Jason Gegere — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:00:32 +0000

This article is about resizing ext3 partitions without losing data. It shows how to shrink and enlarge existing ext3 partitions and how to merge two ext3 partitions. This can be quite useful if you do not use LVM and you…

How to Resize Partition without Data Loss – Part 2 of 3

Jason Gegere — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:30:16 +0000

3 Enlarging An ext3 Partition

In this example we have a /dev/sda1 partition with about 6GB of size, and right behind that partition we have about 4GB of unused space. We want to add those 4GB of unused spave to…

How to Resize Partitions without Data Loss – Part 3 of 3

Jason Gegere — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:43:05 +0000

4 Merge Two ext3 Partitions

In this example I have my system partition /dev/sda1 again (about 6GB of size) which is followed directly by the partition /dev/sda3 (about 4GB of size) on the hard disk. /dev/sda3 is mounted to the…

Adding New Hard Drives in Linux

Jason Gegere — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:50:09 +0000

Adding New Drives

There are many reasons why you would need to add a new drive to your Linux box. You might have out-grown your current space limitations, or you may want to add a separate drive for a specific…

Using Encryption

Jason Gegere — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:46:04 +0000

I use encryption….A lot.

I don’t really have a convenient way to use encryption for the backups I use when I store them offsite at “The Vault“, and my backups have become too large now to fit conveniently on…

Truecrypt 6 on CentOS 5

Jason Gegere — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:16:04 +0000

Truecrypt is available as a Red Hat/CentOS package on RPMForge, however I found that it’s problematic and only supports FAT disks. I needed to use Truecrypt to encrypt a USB drive that is going to store files larger than 4GB…

Installing TrueCrypt 6.2a

Jason Gegere — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:52:05 +0000

Get ready for the epic battle of securing data.

How-To: Install GD on CentOS

Jason Gegere — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:23:03 +0000

Installing the GD library is easy on CentOS thanks to yum. Simply type:

After restarting httpd, everything should be ready with gd.

How to configure Openfiler v2.3 iSCSI Storage with VMware ESXi v4

Jason Gegere — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:18:47 +0000

Until recently I had been running my ESX VM’s on local raid disk. This is mostly due to not having enough time to get some shared storage up and running.

I however was determined to get something…

Install Openfiler to boot off USB Flash Drive

Jason Gegere — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:14:21 +0000

Why?

Installing OpenFiler on a USB stick allows you to seperate your NAS system and config from the data. You don’t have to waste a seperate disc for this purpose. Furthermore, a Flash memory is less sensitive for ‘crashes’…

Upgrading WordPress automatically – Permissions

Jason Gegere — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:01:47 +0000

After doing some more research regarding installing plugins I came across a nice piece of code to allow plugins, updates and themes to be installed without giving the server credentials each time.

MySQL Slave Failed to Open the Relay Log

Jason Gegere — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:25:21 +0000

This problem is a little tricky, there are possible fixes that MySQL website has stated. Sad to say, the one’s I read in the forum and site didn’t fix my problem. What I encountered was that the relay-bin from my…