Ubuntu lds landscape howto and troubleshooting issues in the cloud

The need arose to add a few LDS landscape standalone servers to manage cloud instance inventory over a few clients in virtual private clouds. We identified the version we wanted to use and went 16.04 LTS. Your server needs a hostname that is resolvable either by public[cringe]/private dns or your host edits; The hostname will […]

Watch cpanel log files

From time to time you will need to examine logs looking to identify problems. An easy way to watch these files is with tail, grep, and zgrep. I will cover both and provide a few examples that I think will make it easier to quickly find issues on a Cpanel server without getting overly complicated. […]