Category: SysAdmin
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Updates and Remaining Curious
I was using the Internet (“The Internet”) and ads started appearing on some apps and sites where I didn’t recall seeing them before. I thought the folks had gotten more clever. Later in the day I looked at pihole, realized it was out of date, updated it, and the ads disappeared. Lesson learned, and most…
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Upgrading to WordPress 6.4.2
I run self hosted WordPress sites, like this one, and was performing the update to 6.4.2 and the first site went fine and all the remaining sites failed a manual update. The error message was:“Could not copy file.: wordpress/wp-admin/includes/update-core.phpInstallation failed.” I vaguely recalled that occasionally problems happened and downloads are partially stuck and the files…
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Upgrading to Moodle 4.2.1+ on Fedora requiring mariadb 10.6
Overlook the sizeable lack of blog entries. Entries for social media purposes require require snappier titles and editing. Neither of those are worth my time at present. This is my log, if it helps anyone, great, and it really doesn’t matter, as logging helps me. I went to upgrade to Moodle 4.2 back in March,…
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Womp Moodle 4.0 and Fedora 36
Well, that didn’t go well. I skipped reading the ReadMe on upgrading to Fedora 36 on Moodle.org and after upgrading I realized I was on PHP 8.1 and Moodle doesn’t run on that version. I followed these instructions https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-php-on-fedora/ to install the REMI repository and then PHP 8.0. I did get into some particulars with…
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Forensic SysAdmin
I had to adjust the default mail on a Moodle system that I switched from one domain to another. I changed it last in August of 2015 and apparently forgot how it worked. So today I am going to mention that forensic sysadmin work, or finding configuration files is a real challenge. Yes, I have…