Category Archives: Linux

MySQL: How to solve “[MY-013360] mysql_native_password is deprecated”

Posted on December 29, 2023 by Iain

Have you ever looked through your server logs and seen something like this? [MY-013360] [Server] Plugin mysql_native_password reported: ”mysql_native_password’ is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use caching_sha2_password instead’ This is because, as you can see … Continue reading →

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From SVN to Google Cloud Source Repositories

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Iain

I have been maintaining my own SVN server for many years, but in order to share code and make use of managed services, it was time to migrate some of my repositories to Git. There are many tutorials for svn-git … Continue reading →

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Boot Failure After Ubuntu 15.04 Upgrade

Posted on December 25, 2015 by Iain

It’s Christmas time, which is when I get a chance to upgrade my home servers. This year one of them needed a double-upgrade: 14.10 to 15.04 to 15.10. After backing-up (which is essentially a tar command, more on that in another … Continue reading →

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ZoneMinder 1.28 API

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Iain

Over the holidays, I rebuild my CCTV server. Rather than trying to reuse the installation from the previous disk, I thought it’d be easier just to install everything fresh. Hence, I followed the instructions on the ZoneMinder Wiki. Following on from … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 12.10 Upgrade Broke AFP

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Iain

Recently I upgraded one of my servers from Ubutnu Server 11.10 to 12.10 (via 12.04). Unfortunteatley, this broke AFP. When connecting, I got the error “Something wrong with the volume’s CNID DB“. I’m pretty sure I’ve had this error before, … Continue reading →

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Symlinks and Samba

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Iain

Having filled up my first RAID volume, I had to add a new mount and symlink the extra directories into the network share point. This worked absolutely fine for AFP, but when accessing the share in Windows via SMB, the … Continue reading →

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3TB Hard Drives and Linux

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Iain

Having run completely out of space, I was all ready to start my next array with 2TB hard drives. Surprisingly, the same day, I read on Engadget that Western Digital had started shipping 3TB drives. With the cost overhead of … Continue reading →

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My NAS Server 1

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Iain

After starting the series of posts My NAS Server 2, I thought I should take a few moments to write about the experiences of my first NAS server. It should help justify the decisions I made with second NAS you … Continue reading →

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Install AFP with SSL

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Iain

Here’s how to install AFP (Netatalk) on Ubuntu Linux with SSL for encrypted logins. [code lang=”bash”]apt-get install cracklib2-dev libssl-dev devscripts apt-get source netatalk apt-get build-dep netatalk cd netatalk-* DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=ssl sudo dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc dpkg -i ../netatalk_*.deb[/code] Now you should prevent … Continue reading →

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