Category: All Linux HowTo’s

This article explains how to add new maps to Minecraft. We’re working with a Linux server and we’re going to download maps from public download sites. We’re starting with a working Linux Mincraft server. See how to start from scratch with Minecraft on Linux here “https://www.agix.com.au/minecraft-server-linux-centos-7/”. So far i’m yet

This article shows how to run a Minecraft server on CentOS or Redhat 7. We’re going to download Minecraft, put it in the right place, open the right firewall ports, start Minecraft with sensible settings and run it in a state that we can change things later without having to

This article walks you through adding a volume to a CentOS 7 / Redhat 7 EC2 while it’s running. In this example we’re going to replace the “/var/log” directory with a larger one to prevent the system from running out of disk space due to large logs. Log into AWS

This article shows how you can backup all of your running EC2 instances using a Bash script. In this example we’re ensuring the machines are not rebooted at any time in the process. Also, these images are AMI file that we’d eventually delete because they will simply grow in numbers

So you have a MySQL database and it’s running like a dog. A slow dog, not one of those fast ones. This article is for you. Actually, this article is more of a story about a recent problem a client had with a large Magento database that had become too

This HowTo shows how to install ClamAV and schedule scans using Ansible. There are Ansible modules for this but it’s so simple that you might as well just do it yourself. Create your playbook. Put the following into a file called “ansible-play-install-clamav.yml”. — – hosts: all sudo: yes tasks: –

I dare you to find just one other article explaining how to expire a user account using Ansible. You didn’t and that’s why you’re here. An amazingly undocumented (well, there is doco but it’s rubbish) facility that’s more important than creating the user account in the first place. This is

All sysadmins need to know the state of the servers they look after. CloudWatch lets sysadmins monitor their Amazon AWS resources and be alerted when things go wrong. And by wrong, i mean “out of the norm”. For example, if the CPU goes above a percentage, we should be notified