This list of 100 things you don’t want to here your System Administrator say comes from PacketStorm Unix Humor. And I’ve got to admit, I’ve said several of these lines before.
1. Uh-oh…..
2. Shit!!
3. What the hell!?
4. Go get your backup tape. (You do have a backup tape?)
5. That’s SOOOOO bizarre.
6. Wow!! Look at this…..
7. Hey!! The suns don’t do this.
8. Terminated??!
9. What software license?
10. Well, it’s doing something…..
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These are a few tips on setting passwords in MySql from the Linux command line I figured out while setting up a MySql db server.
To set the root password run this: “mysql -u root mysql” Then run this query: “SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost=PASSWORD(’password‘);” at the MySql prompt replacing the italics with the password.
Then run this command to connect to the database: “mysql -u root -p mysql” and enter your password.
Also to completely wipe everything associated with the database run “rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/*” and restart MySql server (/etc/init.d/mysqld start). This can be helpful to reset a forgotten root password, although there are less destructive ways.
The first new item I saw on slashdot this morning was this post from the Debian dev mailing list. It describes how the dev box gluck.debian.org has been compromised. It mainly caught my eye, because I had just made the decision to try out Debian on a new Linux server I am building. I had planned to install it tonight. I wanted to try out apt-get and the distro, since I have never used Debian before. But now I have read that this isn’t the first time they have been compromised. This sure makes me think twice about putting Debian on my new server.
One of my first computers that I had was a Dell 486 DX2. I experimented with Win3.1, Win95, OS/2, and Linux with it. I eventually settled on Win95, because I wanted to play dos games and access the internet with it. I always wanted to get Linux working on it. Well this weekend I finally did get around to getting Linux on an old 486. I have worked with Linux before, playing around with it on my own, doing some software testing for a company, and in a C/C++ programming for a class in school. But I have never done any extensive server administration, espessially from the command line. I am eager to learn, and this is turning into a very fun project.
My goal is to build a fully functioning webserver(http, ftp, smtp), with Apache, PHP, MySql on a 486 box. Along the way, I want to learn about configuring these components as well as become proficient with the Linux command line. Eventually when it is configured to my satisfaction, I am going to try to do some performance testing, to see how good a server a 486 is.
The first step was to get a working 486 computer. This proved to be harder than I originally thought it would be.
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