In an earlier article (Puppet, Chef, and now Salt for Configuration Management), we discussed how to install salt for configuration management. At the end of the article, we discussed running command on the minions using the salt command from the…
In this world of identity theft and protecting oneself from the internet fraud and hacking, it can be instructive to step back and take a look about what type of information our server is sharing about itself to anybody who…
I installed a new redundant WordPress instance on two different VPS servers the other day. One of my biggest worries with the new system was how would media images and files uploaded by the content editors on one of the…
When you run a typical command from the shell, it will be run in the foreground. You have to wait for the process to complete before you can type another command. Some processes take time to complete and you can’t…
Enabling and managing binary logging will make it more likely that you can recover your database to a specific point in time. These point in time recoveries require proper backups as well as having your MySQL server instance configure for…
In a recent article, we discussed how to end a running process ( See: Killing Linux Processes ). Today we are discussing how to reprioritize or adjust process priority with nice and renice linux commands. Nice Value – Low or…