Category Archives: linux

mysqld.log grows too big in size

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Ketan Patel

Recently on one of our new servers, we had an issue where the mysql daemon had halted on bus error. We couldn’t stop the mysql daemon using /etc/init.d/mysqld stop Then I looked at the error-log file for mysql in /var/log/mysql-error.log … Continue reading →

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How to create a simple linux device driver

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Ketan Patel

Here, I would show you how to create a simple linux driver that does nothing! This just a demo to show you how to compile, install and remove the device driver. Before we get started, you need to make sure … Continue reading →

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How to remove all comments in a file

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Ketan Patel

If you are ever stuck in situation where you want to remove all the comments regardless of what they are in a source file. Here’s a small command that you can issue in VIM. It is for pattern search and … Continue reading →

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How to clear sendmail queue

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Ketan Patel

If you ever felt the need of flushing the sendmail queue then this post will be handy to you. How to flush sendmail queue under linux sendmail mailq command in linux how to flush mail queue in sendmail under linux … Continue reading →

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MySQL not loaded in phpinfo()

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Ketan Patel

This instruction is for LAMP technology. For WAMP, I will post later on. When you have mysql installed in your system, but you do not have mysql.so loaded in your php.ini file. Search for mysql.so in your php extensions directory. … Continue reading →

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