Software Engineer, Manchester, UK
Like most of the code I write these days in my spare time, It’s usually for a little bit of fun! This time, I just wanted to get a random bunch of images from Imgurl.com to collect some “memes”. I’ll warn you now, the internet is not a nice place. People upload all sorts of…
This weekend, I decided to attend Hack The North organised by the DWP Digital Team. A two-day event where like-minded people gathered together to identify and attempt to address the difficulties or hardships that individuals face when using support services offered by organisations in and around Manchester. This all-night event allows attendees to pitch their…
Last brain dump of today. Here’s some quick commands to stop running docker containers and also clean up afterwards (remove container files, and images). Stop all containers: docker stop $(docker ps -aq) Remove all containers: docker rm $(docker ps -aq) Remove all images: docker rmi $(docker images -q)
Another brain dump for future reference. This is when setting up gitlab to build and run docker images when the CI/CD pipeline runs. Install gitlab-runner On a linux x86-64 download the gitlab-runner package: sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/binaries/gitlab-runner-linux-amd64 Give it permissions: sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner Install docker: curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh Create the gitlab-runner…
If you are seeing the following error in the exim logs, you will need to reset the exim databases. “The Exim database is most likely corrupted and the following steps should be followed” To reset exim’s database of retry, reject, and wait-report_smtp attempts on cPanel, I find the safest way is to run the following…
Another little fix for a issue I came across this week relating to CloudLinux’s LVEstats2 I had a server running 100% CPU, and doing an huge amount of read/write I/O – causing issues with the SAN shelf. After looking at top, I noticed the LVE process (which collects usage data on users) was consuming most…
While installing packages via npm, it failed with just the message “Killed”. Automatically this triggers me to believe it is memory related. I was after all running the VM with only 1G memory. Fix npm install Killed So to resolve this, you need to create and extend a swap file. You can do this in…
I’ve noticed that since upgrading cPanel to v68.0.28 our ModSecurity Vendors have dropped off, and no longer available in the interface, and the rules are no longer available for Apache. When trying to add the OWASP Ruleset (Vendor) back, I get the following error message. Error:The system experienced the following error when it attempted to install…
Again, another brain dump for future use. A stock installation of CentOS 7 will be packaged with PHP 5.4 which is now end of life. This is how to install PHP 5.6, which is currently only receiving security updates. Side note: These commands install the basic PHP requirements for Magento. Installing PHP 5.6 on CentOS…
We ran into a little issue with our Centovacast installation last month. It turns out, that if you have a few large radio stations using the same server, the MySQL Database tables get rather full (20 million rows), and when trying to pull the data back into the Centovacast interface was causing some issues (timeout…