April 22, 2009

Plesk Backup Error: ‘ERROR Unable to open /opt/psa/var/apspkgarc/archive-index.xml’

I was getting the following error when trying to use Plesk’s backup function:

ERROR Unable to open /opt/psa/var/apspkgarc/archive-index.xml

The solution is to visit the “Application Vault” under the “Server” tab of your Plesk interface.  The file gets auto-generated at that point.

For more information on how to use Plesk’s backup feature, read this post

February 17, 2009

Using GNU Nano in Ubuntu

I was recently installing Warehouse on a Ubuntu Server, and was using nano quite a bit for some simple edits. One thing that was quite annoying was the fact that the “backspace” on my Mac was acting like the forward delete. I figured there had to be a configuration directive somewhere, which I found in /etc/nanorc. I opened that file (remember to use sudo) and un-commented this line out:

## Fix Backspace/Delete confusion problem.
set rebinddelete

That fixed the issue.

Tip: you can search for delete by hitting ctrl+w and typing delete.

December 19, 2008

Installing ntop on Mac OS X 10.5.x, Leopard

First off, install MacPorts, with some additional instructions here.

Then open up the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and type:

sudo port install ntop

Notice: It will take a LONG time even on good hardware (about 10 minutes on my Mac Pro with a striped RAID boot array).

After that is complete, you can then launch it by running:

sudo ntop -d

which launches it in daemon mode so that you can close your terminal and still have it running in the background.

It should prompt you to enter the admin password, which has to be 5 characters or more. Type it again to confirm, and it should launch.

Notice that if you do not run it with sudo, you may receive this message:

mac-pro:~ ryebread$ ntop
Fri Dec 19 10:57:15 2008  NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default
Fri Dec 19 10:57:15 2008  Initializing gdbm databases
Fri Dec 19 10:57:15 2008  **ERROR** ....open of /opt/local/var/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: File open error
Fri Dec 19 10:57:15 2008  Possible solution: please use '-P '
Fri Dec 19 10:57:15 2008  **FATAL_ERROR** GDBM open failed, ntop shutting down...
Fri Dec 19 10:57:15 2008  CLEANUP[t2687149856]: ntop caught signal 2 [state=2]
Fri Dec 19 10:57:15 2008  ntop is now quitting...

It’s just telling you that it does not have the proper permissions to run in the /opt/local/var/ntop/prefsCache.db database.

Go to a web browser, and type:

http://localhost:3000

and you should be able to see an interface something like the following:

ntop running on Mac OS X 10.5.6, Leopard

ntop running on Mac OS X 10.5.6, Leopard

November 28, 2008

SugarCRM Errors Out (MySQL Error 1064) After Installation

After a fresh installation of SugarCRM on a test CentOS 5 box, I received the following error with a blank white screen typical of a PHP or die() statement.

Query Failed: AND users.id = '1'::MySQL error 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND users.id = '1'' at line 1

To fix it, simply turn off PHP Safe Mode in the php.ini file that is usually located in the /etc directory. Issue a service httpd restart and you should be good to go.

November 20, 2008

Adding A User In MySQL

Do you need to quickly add a specific user with access to only a certain table? Issue this command as a root or admin user:

GRANT ALL ON testdb.* TO 'testuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pass1';

You can also limit user’s privileges to specific ip addresses or domains in case you need to access your databases from a different host.

GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'testuser'@'remote.farmsoftstudios.com' IDENTIFIED BY 'pass1';