We have had two instances of one of our Proxmox nodes hanging and upon insepecting /var/log/syslog we observed the following error before the crashes: enp0s31f6: Detected Hardware Unit Hang proxmox…
Proxmox node hangs – detected Hardware Unit Hang
Resize Ubuntu Volume group LVM
So you've seen the light and decided to start using LVM. You'll quickly find out that by default Ubuntu doesn't allocate all available disk space to the volume group. To…
Setup RocketChat with Mongo Cluster Volume and Traefik – Dockerized in Rancher
This assumes you have Traefik already setup in Rancher. docker-compose.yml version: '2' volumes: mongodata: driver: rancher-nfs services: mongo-cluster: image: mongo:3.4 volumes: – mongodata:/data/db environment: CATTLE_SCRIPT_DEBUG: '' MONGO_SERVICE_NAME: mongo-cluster command: -…
Set default page cPanel/WHM
Copy index.html into the following directory: /root/cpanel3-skel/public_html
Update WordPress image URLs after URL change
If you've moved your WordPress over to another domain or changed the URL you might end up with a situation where the images that have been uploaded are pointing to…
Rename Proxmox node with existing VMs
Please note that I have only tried this on a single Proxmox node, and NOT a node joined to a cluster. Change to the new hostname in the following 3…
Check if your DNS server "works" for a domain name
dig domain-to-query.co.za @dns1.your-dns-server-domain.co.za +short
Resize/Expand Proxmox disk Centos DirectAdmin
You've found you're running out of disk space in DirectAdmin (Proxmox VM), and you'd like to allocate more disk space. One would hope that it would be as simple as…
Strange emoticons/icons in Thunderbird Ubuntu
Thunderbird on Ubuntu sometimes displays enlarged icons for mails containing certain emoticons. To solve this you can run the following command: sudo apt-get install fonts-symbola
Graphics card not showing in Nvidia X Server Settings Ubuntu
It can sometimes be quite a mission to get Nvidia graphics cards working correctly with Ubuntu/Linux. I recently encountered an issue where after installing the drivers (for the GTX 1060)…









