Category Archives: System Maintenance

Problems updating MySQL on Ubuntu 16.04?

Posted on October 24, 2018 by ajeffri

Click here.  From there I was able to figure out that credentials were missing in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf.

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Wiping out all user-level accounts and starting over….

Posted on August 27, 2018 by ajeffri

I am wiping all user-level accounts and starting over. They’ve gotten out of control.

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Yay! I’m Back!

Posted on December 8, 2016 by ajeffri

After pulling my hair out with differing MySQL versions between Debian 8 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, AWU is once again online. I got lots of help from this page about turning on debugging in WordPress. The official WordPress docs on … Continue reading →

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Who is messing with Linode?

Posted on January 4, 2016 by ajeffri

Stop it. You’re being a dick.

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Getting messages from PHP about missing suhosin.so in Debian Wheezy? You’re not alone.

Posted on June 15, 2013 by ajeffri

Do this as root: dpkg -P php5-suhosin This will get rid of the messages, as seen here.

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AWU on Debian Wheezy (and tips on getting Postfix to talk to saslauthd)

Posted on June 15, 2013 by ajeffri

AWU is on Debian Wheezy (7.0) now. Everything went great, except for getting Postfix to connect to saslauthd for authentication. I had this bit in /etc/fstab from $DEITY-knows-where: /var/run/saslauthd /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd bind bind 0 0 It’s a hack to remount /var/run/saslauthd on /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd … Continue reading →

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Now on MariaDB

Posted on May 5, 2013 by ajeffri

Woot! AWU is now on MariaDB! I followed the instructions at this link. And yes, I upgraded to move away from Oracle, which has not always been friendly to open source.

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Test post for Facebook

Posted on July 16, 2012 by ajeffri

Testing publishing to FB. We’ll see how this goes.

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Permalinks fixed

Posted on July 12, 2012 by ajeffri

The permalinks used to open articles in their own window were messed up, but this should be working now. Sorry for the system wonkiness.

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On a New Server and New Domain

Posted on June 18, 2012 by ajeffri

As you can see, Angry with Unicorns is on a new server and a new domain. There may be a few bugs to work out, but I think everything is in order, except for user accounts. You will need to … Continue reading →

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