When mounting a partition you receive “mount: unknown filesystem type ‘linux_raid_member'”

When mounting a partition you receive “mount: unknown filesystem type ‘linux_raid_member’” like so: [root ~] #>mount /dev/sde3 /mnt/disk/ mount: /mnt/disk: unknown filesystem type ‘linux_raid_member’. This will happen when the hard drive (partition) was previously a member of a linux/mdadm based RAIDX array and you mounted the partition directly NOT using the RAID system. You also […]

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Script to change permissions on directory tree with instructions read from a file

One of the main problems with security on directory trees for HTTPS servers if  you allow the user that runs the server read/write access at all times you bound to get hacked. If you disallow write access to most but temporary, cache and uploads directory then your possibility of getting hacked is far less. I

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syslog-ng: Plugin module not found … module=’afsql’

I encountered the error “Plugin module not found in ‘module-path’; module-path=’/lib64/syslog-ng’, module=’afsql’ this article describes how I fixed it. After updating syslog-ng and restarting it this happened: [root /etc] #>/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog-ng restart Stopping syslog-ng: [ OK ] Plugin module not found in ‘module-path’; module-path=’/lib64/syslog-ng’, module=’afsql’ Starting syslog-ng: Plugin module not found in ‘module-path’; module-path=’/lib64/syslog-ng’, module=’afsql’ [

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