Tag: Linux
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A Little Security for WordPress on CentOS
I logged into a newly provisioned VM recently to see a message that there had been 86,876 failed login attempts from a domain in another country. Last failed login: Sat Sep 13 04:02:20 UTC 2014 from 222.186.34.117 on ssh:notty There were 86876 failed login attempts since the last successful login. That got me to looking…
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Making sure Stash starts up on Windows
I was having a problem where Stash (which was installed as a service) wasn’t starting up properly and giving me a page that made it look like there was a problem with the database. I have a local MySQL on the same machine as the Stash server, and both that service and the Stash server…
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Getting the correct timezone in a web application
I support a web application that is hosted on a virtual private server. The application architecture is JavaEE running under GlassFish on CentOS. Like most ISP’s, my hosting provider builds vanilla Linux boxes that can be configured with various flavors of the OS. Out of the box these images have their timezone set to UTC,…
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Where did my space go ?
The other day I got a notification from the Plesk control panel for Carticipate telling me that the user account was about to expire. I logged into Plesk only to find out that the disk on the VPS was full. Now this was really confusing, since the entire Carticipate system consists of a web2py install,…