Date: December 8, 2018
Issue: When installing yourls and clicking the INSTALL button under /admin/install.php you get a server Error 500 and the following error shows up in the log: 2018/12/08 21:22:10 [error] 21768#21768: *2 FastCGI sent in stderr: “PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max … Read More
Date: December 7, 2018
Issue: Using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on on Windows 10to establish an ssh session to a Linux host the cursor is acting strangely. You may be in vi or nano editing some file and your backspace suddenly makes the cursor jump or space bar acts like it is in edit mode, seemingly writing over … Read More
Date: December 4, 2018
Issue: Logging in via SSH you are greeted with: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:LANGUAGE = (unset),LC_ALL = (unset),LC_CTYPE = “en_US.UTF-8”,LANG = “C.UTF-8”are supported and installed on your system.perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”). Solution: Edit /etc/environment and add the following. Replace en_US with your actual … Read More
Date: September 4, 2018
time1.google.com 216.239.35.0 time.apple.com 17.253.82.253 time.nist.gov 129.6.15.29 Hitting these directly has not been best practice for a while now. One should use the public pool from NTPpool.org