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Builing MySQL RPM from source RPM

Posted on July 5, 2006 by admin

On my Fedora Core 3 local test Linux server, MySQL version was 3.x   I upgraded MySQL with bindary download from MySQL.com   Few days back i tried to compile a program with mysql library and got error, it seems

Portupgrade pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format

Posted on July 5, 2006 by admin

After upgrading FreeBSD from v6 to 6.1, i tried to upgrade all software installed on the server with portupgrade.   I start getting the error   [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg … /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format — Invalid

Upgrading FreeBSD 6 to 6.1 on remote server

Posted on July 5, 2006 by admin

Today i upgraded FreeBSD 6 on server26.hosthat.com to FreeBSD 6.1 You can find instruction on how to do the upgrade at http://www.daemonology.net/ After FreeBSD upgrade server26# uname -aFreeBSD server26.hosthat.com 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:32:43 UTC 2006 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

BizHat.com Adds New Programmer

Posted on July 1, 2006 by admin

Today (1 JULY 2006) new staff jointed in BizHat.com as programmer.   He is working on rebuilding classified advertisement web site of bizhat.com   http://classifieds.bizhat.com   Present classified site have lot of spam, the new software will have option to

BizHat.com Image Host moved to unmetered Server

Posted on August 18, 2005 by admin

BizHat.com Image Host (http://imagehost.bizhat.com/) getting lot of hits these days. Last few days it was 75 GB per day. So we can’t keep it on present server as it have only 1000 GB bandwidth per month. If Image Host is

Setting HostName in Linux

Posted on May 19, 2005 by admin

To set host name on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora Server to serverX.hosthat.com Edit /etc/sysconfig/network Find Replace With Edit /etc/hosts Add To find servers main IP, use ifconfig, it should be IP of eth0 in most cases. Add hostname to /etc/hostname Setting HostName