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I am forever trying to find the link to the root/intermediate certificates when I install an SSL certificate on a server. Since the root certificate is now required I spend too much time trying to locate it. To save myself some time, I am putting the link(s) for the certs here so I know exactly [...]

The battery learn cycle causes some i/o headaches and slows things down. If you would like to change the times that the learn cycle runs, thus allowing the cycle to run when other items are not needing to use more i/o, throw this in cron. 0 4 1 1,3,5,7,9,11 * /usr/bin/omconfig storage battery action=startlearn controller=0 [...]

Some of you may be aware that along with my tech job I am also a deputy sheriff. A couple of years ago we were looking at replacing our records management system because it had some serious flaws. Among them was that it could not work between our two offices because it had no client/server [...]

If you encounter the following error when running the Urchin stats update it can easily be corrected. "Unable to open database for writing since it has been archived" The error occurs whenever Urchin has archived its log tracking databases. The fix for this is pretty simple. 1. Navigate to /usr/local/urchin/data/reports/[profile] 2. Unznip the [date]-archive.zip files [...]