by BigDogAdmin | Aug 10, 2017 | BASH, CentOS, cli, Linux, Uncategorized
So, we have a client’s backup program that saves a database to a file each night, but the file name just includes the date, not the days of the week. There are over a year of daily backups which are taking up a lot of space, and they only need to keep the weekly...
by BigDogAdmin | Aug 1, 2017 | CentOS, cli, install, Linux, open source, rpm
The version’ing of CentOS and mapping it to the equivalent Red Hat version is a little confusing at first glance. Release 7 (1611)? What is that? Is it 7.2 or 7.3? Let’s take a look. The HARD WAY: Doing the following command gives you the Kernel version,...
by BigDogAdmin | Nov 16, 2016 | Anti-Virus, CentOS, clam, clamav, cli, cron, EPEL, install, Linux, open source, Uncategorized
With my last post, I talked about how to install ClamAV (Clam Anti-Virus) for Linux on CentOS 7. And yet, I was not able to get the clamd daemon to run without errors. Every time I ran clamd, I got a permission error. I verified the file permissions and folder...
by BigDogAdmin | Nov 8, 2016 | Anti-Virus, CentOS, clam, clamav, cli, EPEL, install, Linux, open source, repo, repository, Uncategorized, yum
Like it or not, viruses are a real part of running a server, even a CentOS 7 server. Linux has a great option for a virus scanner called ClamAV. It is available for many versions of Linux, but the default configuration files are poorly written and do not work in...
by BigDogAdmin | Sep 23, 2016 | APC, CentOS, cli, power, UPS
Having an UPS is critical to protect your server from power related damage (brownouts, blackouts, etc) (we recommend it for all your office computers). Having power suddenly shut off to your server can cause hard drives to crash and data to be lost. With an UPS,...