Linux Admin Services, Part II

Oh, the joys of maintaining a Linux box. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my problem getting MySQL to start again after a reboot. This time, the problem was getting X to start. (A quick aside for those of you who haven’t had the pleasure: The X Window System is the collection of [...]

MySQL

Not like I don’t have more important stuff to write about (or more important stuff to do, like unpack one of these hundreds of boxes), but I found virtually nothing about this on Google, and so I guess I owe it to the next poor bastard to write about this. I did a standard, boring, [...]