It had been awhile since I have installed NRPE or Nagios Remote Plugin Executor running through xinetd so once I thought I had everything configured I attempted to restart xinetd but NRPE was not working properly. Below I describe the error in more detail along with how I resolved the issue. In the below example the server was running CentOS Linux.
Recently I needed to modify a MySQL database from a latin1 character set to a utf8 character set which I may write an article on later however when importing the MySQL dumped data back into a new database I received an error complaining about the packet size. This can easily be worked around using the information below.
Earlier today I was configuring VSFTPD on a new server. After installing via the yum package manager on a CentOS server and copying the configuration from another server to mimic its behavior I attempted to start VSFTD and it failed with the error noted in detail below. After the error details there is information on what caused the problem followed by how I was able to resolve the issue.
I recently upgraded the Project Management Software, which happened to be Redmine, for a company and after the upgrade I received some complaints regarding SVN not functioning properly. I initially thought there is no way that the upgrade caused an issue with SVN since SVN and Redmine are completely separate however you can browse the SVN repositories from within Redmine. Below I describe the error in more detail including an image of the error from TortoiseSVN, what I did to resolve the issue, and another possible resolution if your issue is different than the one mentioned in this article.
This is the most annoying error and for some reason I get it all the time when I reboot my Gentoo servers. I have no idea why since I always execute a proper reboot and my times are all synchronized with a time server. Its a small fix and this will be a short article…