Category: Server management

If you want to ensure that a process is not running twice at the same time on Linux, there is a tool, probably included in your distribution, called

WordPress needs a cron to work. By default, a function wp_cron is executed each time a visitor loads a page from your website. If there is a job

Postfix is a SMTP server, often used on Linux. I won’t go here into details in this configuration, just a simple installation as a SMTP router. The idea

Logwatch enables to analyse the log files of a Linux box. The default parameters are enough for most of configurations. Install This will enable you to receive a

Fail2ban protects a server against attacks by detecting in the logs abnormal behaviors and setting up a firewall rule to disconnect the remote host. Install Protect the server

This blog uses Ghost to publish. Here is the configuration I made to make it running : (based on https://howtoinstallghost.com/how-to-install-ghost-on-ubuntu-server-12-04/)

Here is my little reminder on commands I use, not so frequently, on Ubuntu. Hope this can helps others !

When parametering replication on mySQL, you can setup the slave to only replicate transactions on a specific set of tables. Generally speaking, this could apply in a scenario

As many other features, mySQL does not provide “out of the box” script to monitor the replication.   Here we are going to see how to put in

Lors de mon précédent article sur la sauvegarde des bases de données (je n’avais pas résisté au titre de provocateur de Mysqldump n’est pas un outil de backup),