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Ubuntu 14.04 OpenVZ locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

Posted on August 1, 2014 by admin

On a OpenVZ Ubuntu 14.04 image, when i run locale, i get following error This is fixed by editing /etc/environment Add Now you need to log off and log in, so environment variable is set. Now run

Change Master Password for OpenERP

Posted on August 1, 2014 by admin

By default OpenERP use Master Password “admin”. After installation of OpenERP, you need to change this password. If not anyone can delete your entire OpenERP company database. To change OpenERP master password, edit /etc/openerp/openerp-server.conf Set value for admin_passwd

OpenERP Server Error Server Access denied

Posted on July 24, 2014 by admin

After Installing OpenERP, i get following error. On Create A New Database Screen. This is because you enter wrong “Master password”. Default Master password is “admin”. Once you enter “admin” in first text box, it will allow you to create

grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won’t be possible.

Posted on July 22, 2014 by admin

When installing Ubuntu on 2 TB HDD i got following error. This is fixed by creating a 2 MB partition on the 2 TB hard disk and setting its flag to “bios_grub” Here “1” is the partition number for the

apt-get update error signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available

Posted on July 21, 2014 by admin

When updating ubuntu, i got following error. This is fixed by running 3B4FE6ACC0B21F32 is the key from the error message when you run apt-get update.

OpenVZ VPS Creation Error – The ploop image can not be used on ext3 or ext4

Posted on July 21, 2014 by admin

When i create a VPS, i got error This is because OpenVZ recently started using ploop image for OpenVZ virtual machines. To fix this, edit /etc/vz/vz.conf Find Replace With Now you will be able to create VPS.

NO-IP outages caused by Microsoft.

Posted on July 1, 2014 by admin

Just got following email from NO-IP We want to update all our loyal customers about the service outages that many of you are experiencing today. This is NOT A TECHINCAL ISSUE WITH NO-IP. This morning, Microsoft served a federal court

Fixing Cpanel WHM expired SSL certificate

Posted on June 25, 2014 by admin

A customer had SSL certificate installed on his servers hostname for WHM and Cpanel. Recently SSH got expired. So he can’t access WHM. Got this fixed by

.uk domain name now available

Posted on June 25, 2014 by admin

United Kingdom have new top level domain .uk available for registration now. Previously UK had only co.uk and org.uk domains available for public registration. UK’s domain registry nominet.org.uk announced .uk top level doamin on 10 June 2014. Many other countries

How to install whois on CentOS server

Posted on June 18, 2014 by admin

While moving a web site, i want to check whois of the domain to find name servers. I run Whois is not installed, we need to install it. To find which package provide whois command, run We found out the

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