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How to prevent sed -i command overwriting my symlinks on Linux or Unix

Posted on in Categories , , , , , , , , , last updated June 13, 2017

I recently ran a command ‘sed -i 's/CONFIG_1/CONFIG_OPT_2/g' /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf‘ on a Debian Linux server. However, the sed command destroyed the link and created a regular file in place of the link file. How can I prevent my ‘sed -i’ command from destroying symlinks on Linux or Unix-like system?

Ansible: Could not find aptitude. Please ensure it is installed Error and Solution

Posted on in Categories , , , last updated June 13, 2017

I am running the ‘ansible-playbook -i hostnames upgrade.yml‘ command but getting an error that read as follows

fatal: [db1]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “failed”: true, “msg”: “Could not find aptitude. Please ensure it is installed.“}

My yml file includes the following line:

- apt: update_cache=yes upgrade=yes

How do I fix this error on a Debian or Ubuntu Linux server?

How to set rsync speed limit from eating all bandwidth with –bwlimit option

Posted on in Categories , , , , , , , , last updated February 25, 2017

The rsync command is eating all my bandwidth from a backup script and generating tons of I/O. How do I set a limit for file transfer speed of rsync command on Linux or Unix-like system? How can I keep my rsync script from using all of my bandwidth?

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /home/httpd/a/includes/functions.php(1)

Posted on in Categories , , , , , , , , , , last updated February 12, 2017

I setup a LEMP (Linux, Nginx,MySQL, PHP ) stack. But, getting the following error in /var/log/nginx/error.log file:
    PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /home/httpd/a/includes/functions.php(1)
How do I solve this problem on Linux server?