Apr 26, 2016
· 1 minute read
linux
Got this error -
Synchronising backup files to remote server ... sending incremental file list rsync: link_stat "/home/user/ " failed: No such file or directory (2) From a bash script running this rsync command -
rsync -vz -e "ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" \ --rsync-path="/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync" --archive --delete \ ${backupDir}/* ${remoteServer}:${backupDir} The problem was simply some trailing white space after the line continuation characters :-(
Apr 15, 2016
· 2 minute read
windows
In a Windows domain environment connected PC’s will usually get their time from a domain controller. If the time on the DC is wrong then so is the time on all connected PC’s.
Checking and correcting Windows DC time can be done in Powershell.
One word of warning - if your server time is fast (as mine was) then take care resetting it as a sudden jump back in time can affect some applicaitons.
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Apr 12, 2016
· 1 minute read
sap
We are running SAP on Red Hat Linux VM’s and have just embarked on a round of OS updates.
Everything seemed to be OK … until we checked history in SAP.
While saposcol starts and runs without any problems the log (/usr/sap/tmp/dev_coll) tells a different story, it is filled with errors similar to:
ERROR: can not determine current Linux kernel version --> exiting : No such file or directory SAP Note 1629588 reports exactly this problem with a Linux v3 kernel, which is exactly what we are running now, 3.
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Apr 11, 2016
· 2 minute read
office365
For a while now I have been supporting an Office365 installation for a local charity. We started off with E3 licences on the non-profit rate which gave us access to all the online service plus an Office2013 license for installation on PC’s.
We have grown to a size where occasionally people leave, when that happens we have two requirements:
- retaining their mail data for a short period of time and
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Apr 8, 2016
· 1 minute read
civicrm
Important lesson today during a CiviCRM upgrade.
Do not save the old copy of CiviCRM code in /sites/all/modules!
If you see an error similar to the following then you almost certainly have two copies of the CiviCRM code -
[08-Apr-2016 18:08:14 Europe/London] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class CRM_Core_ClassLoader in /var/www/vhosts/crm-demo.medicaldetectiondogs.org.uk/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/ClassLoader.php on line 36 In my case I had downloaded the new version and saved the old version in /sites/all/modules, e.
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