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 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hello everyone, I am happy to announce the inclusion of personnel who are FAA Remote Pilot Certified (Part 107) on our team. We can now legally fly UAS (aka. drones) for our customers’ needs. Give us a call if you need cable runs, satellite/radio towers,...
by BigDogAdmin | Aug 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Looking to run a server from home or small business office? Free DNS offers free options and also low cost DNS services for your domain. This can work great for low traffic servers. If you have questions about how DNS works, or how to set up your small business server...
by BigDogAdmin | Feb 9, 2017 | CentOS, EPEL, install, Uncategorized, VirtualBox
I was going to write a post about the rpm’s and steps needed to install VirtualBox 5.0.x Guest Additions in a CentOS 7 virtual machine, but I found this article by LifeofaGeek. Check it out. He is using the DKMS method which should keep things working even if...
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...