So far this is the easiest way I have found to update Mediawiki. This presumes SSH access. Back up your database and files first! cd wget https://releases.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.31/mediawiki-1.31.1.tar.gz (if going for another version, replace with the appropriate link) tar -xvzf mediawiki-1.31.1.tar.gz cp -rf mediawiki-1.31.1/* /var/www/YOURSITE If your sites are stored elsewhere, replaces /var/www/YOURSITE with whatever…
Forgotten what it was you last updated, or want to check what someone else has been updating? There’s a log file for that, and it’s located at: /var/log/apt/history.log To view it, run: less /var/log/apt/history.log Looking for an older logfile? They’re kept, too. To see the other log files available, view the…
Fedora, unlike Ubuntu with apt-get, uses yum to update it’s software. Run the following as root (either by logging in as root or using su in front of the command): yum update You will see a list of the updated packages and a confirmation at the end. On our test system it…
The quickest and easiest way of updating the firmware is through HP’s Library and Tape Tools – at the time of writing it is available here: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/ltt/ Click on the “Link to free download” link to acquire the software. Assuming you have the correct drivers for your setup (SCSI/SAS/etc card), the tape…
There are quite a few reasons you may find that you need to change your time zone – for example, if you’re using a pre-made image for a virtual machine you may find that the default timezone is not set to your country. You can change the time manually, though there is a quick…
We came across this one recently when setting up a Zabbix server, where the installation would not proceed until the PHP timezone was set. This is quite straightforward – using your favourite editor edit: /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini Look for the Module Settings section or search for: date.timezone (in vi /date.timezone should get…
If you see the above error – and you’re selecting what you’re sure is the proper CAP file – chances are you’re trying to use a USB disk formatted to NTFS rather than FAT32. Frustratingly, the error message for a corrupt/non-CAP file is the same as the error message you get when you’re trying…
In ESXi 5.1 you can patch using the following command: esxcli software vib install -d /path/to/patch.zip If you’re getting the following result (using ESXi510-20121001.zip as an example): [MetadataDownloadError] Could not download from depot at zip:/var/log/vmware/ESXi510-201210001.zip?index.xml, skipping ((‘zip:/var/log/vmware/ESXi510-201210001.zip?index.xml’, ”, “Error extracting index.xml from /var/log/vmware/ESXi510-201210001.zip: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/var/log/vmware/ESXi510-201210001.zip’”)) url…
We had a customer who installed a M1015 into their workstation and it wouldn’t recognise the card at all during the boot process; the board was still on the shipping BIOS 0906, and the issue was resolved by updating to the most current BIOS (1401 at the time of writing). After updating the BIOS…
