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16 Feb 2009If you try to backup a MySQL database with a lot of tables using mysqldump, you may get an error similar to the following:
mysqldump: Got error: 29: File ‘./test/test.MYD’ not found (Errcode: 24) when using LOCK TABLES
To fix the problem you can add the –skip-lock-tables option to your mysqldump command line like so:
mysqldump –skip-lock-tables -u [...]
Most of the instructions for mirroring a directory with Rsync involve mirroring the data to a different server. You can also use Rsync to sync or mirror a directory on the same computer as the source directory.
Here is an example command on how to mirror two directories locally. In this example, /home/apache/public_html is the source [...]
Firestarter is a GNOME program which offers a GUI interface to the IP Tables firewall.
If you have Firestarter configured to allow all IPs addresses to all ports or a particular port on your server, you can’t block a specific IP from accessing those ports using the GUI interface. However, Firestarter does allow you to manually [...]
If you are using Yum to manage packages from multiple repositories it may be beneficial for you to not update a particular package against a specific repository in favor of another one. To do this, simply add the following line to the Yum configuration file for the repository you want to ignore:
exclude=packageName1 packageName2 packageName3
For example, [...]
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