Tag: Linux
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Should you kill or terminate a misbehaving process.
Have you ever had a linux process that was not running but when you try to start or restart the process nothing happens. You may find that you need to kill the process before you try to restart it because the process is actually still alive and not responding or not actually alive but the…
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Fail2ban for the uninitiated.
What is fail2ban and why you should install it. In this day and age every web site owner or administrator is obsessed with improving the amount of traffic that flows to their site, even though little thought is given to weather or not, that traffic is of any use to their site or what harm…
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How to Fix “mod_fcgid: HTTP request length 131619 (so far) exceeds MaxRequestLen (131072)” error on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Linux.
If you are trying to upload a file through WordPress or another content system to your web site and your website is running on Apache2/PHP5/mod_fcgid, and your browser displays the error: and in your Apaches error log you see something like This error is because the default value of FcgidMaxRequestLen is 131072 which is very…