I recently upgraded an Ubuntu 14.04 Server to 16.04. I immediately noticed the root mail being spammed with error e-mails as below: From: Cron Daemon [mailto:root@jack] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 4:09 PM To: root@jack Subject: Cron <root@jack> [ -x /usr/lib/php/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php/sessionclean /usr/lib/php/sessionclean: 37: /usr/lib/php/sessionclean: arithmetic expression: expecting […]
Jim
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Suppose you want to make a copy of your existing WordPress site on a different domain name (e.g. test.domain.com). Instead, maybe you want to move your site to a different domain name (e.g. newdomain.com). This procedure assumes you have shell access to the Linux server hosting your site running Apache […]
Recently, I was setting up Sage 50 Automatic Backups for a client. The utility lacks the ability to automatically clean-up old backups. Each backup file created has the date postpended to the filename. “Overwrite the existing backup file” would only apply if you ran two backups on the same Company […]
We highly recommend using CrashPlan Pro as part of your disaster recovery plan. After seeding your initial backup, it continuously backs up changed files every 15 minutes. You get unlimited storage and customizeable file versioning and retention. For example, let’s say you accidentally delete a file and don’t notice it for say […]
We recently had a Mid 2010 Mac Pro in the shop which had three 3TB hard drives. We did a fresh install of High Sierra on the first 3TB drive. The goal was to install Windows 7 on the second 3TB drive. The third 3TB drive was to be added […]
At 3:49 AM, I received the following e-mail from AT&T. These “Your bill is ready” e-mails from service providers are one of my favorite kinds of SPAM. This is just branding, and they can get away with not having an unsubscribe link in the email since it’s transaction related. I […]