Month: February 2014

bacula-dir mysqldump: Error 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query when dumping table

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Our Bacula server has started failing when backing up its own database.  This is a standard job called BackupCatalog. It showed an error like so: 27-Feb 23:29 bacula-dir JobId 6545: shell command: run BeforeJob “/etc/bacula/scripts/<a href=”http://make_catalog_backup.pl” target=”_blank”>make_<wbr />catalog_backup.pl</a> MyCatalog” 27-Feb 23:35 bacula-dir JobId 6545: BeforeJob: mysqldump: Error 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query … Read more

Linux Voice released their first issue…

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I supported the new Linux Voice magazine with their Indegogo campaign and have just received the first digital issue.   It is awesome and a great read.  Given that the team is made up of mostly of ex-Linux Format employees, it shares some similarities.  Well done Linux Voice!

How to setup VPN connection Oxford University Ubuntu (Linux)

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I needed to connect to Oxford University via a VPN connection from my Ubuntu 13.10 laptop.  They have some instructions by they are quite complicated and not very clear. Here is how I did it: 1 – Install a Cisco compatiable VPN Client Oxford University uses the Cisco VPN. You can install this directly from the … Read more

Ansible Diff Function

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Ansible is a great tool for configuring servers. I only recently discovered the Ansible diff argument which can be used to check what changes are going to be made for a file. If you use this with the –check flag you can see what changes will be applied. I find this especially useful when coming … Read more

ImportError: No module named interactive Paramiko

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If you have cut a pasted the demo.py script from Paramiko to test is working on your server then you might get this error: There isn’t a python module called interactive – you need to download the interactive.py file which is included in the same folder as the demo application.