How to Move the MySQL data directory in Ubuntu

March 17th, 2005 I am eagerly waiting for my copies of Ubuntu. The site says that it was sent on February 22.

May 12th, 2007 Mantis is popular php based defect tracking application which works on top of RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Recently I ported our Windows based Mantis installation to Linux.

September 9th, 2007 I was looking for the wiki of a popular Linux based firewall site. The main url was 404, so I went up one level hoping to find a new url.

April 9th, 2009 Ubuntu is perhaps the richest graphically well equipped operating system from the Linux world. It gives us a more sophisticated flavor that an usual Linux misses in the eyes of a layman.

September 1st, 2007 Working with replication systems is not easy. Learning and testing different kind of MySQL replications and fine-tuning it to your specific needs is a time-consuming endeavor.

January 17th, 2009 MySQL stores usernames and passwords in the user table inside the MySQL database. You can directly update a password using the following method to update or change passwords: 1) Login to the MySQL server, type the following command at the shell prompt: $ mysql -u root -p 2) Use the mysql database (type commands at the mysql> prompt): mysql> use mysql; 3) Change password for a user: mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD("newpass") where User='YOUR-USER-NAME'; 4) Reload privileges: mysql> flush privileges; mysql> quit [P.S.

July 14th, 2006 Joomla Content Management System was forked off Mambo CMS after most of the core Mambo developers disagreed with Mambo Management. The current stable release is 1.0.10.

October 8th, 2006 While downloading Fedora Core 5 using DAP, I ran out of temporary disk space (which is by default in C: drive) thereby wasting several hours of download. Download Accelerator Plus (DAP is a popular file download utility) saves the partially downloaded segments in %TEMP% directory.

May 30th, 2006 Sun Microsystems is getting support for its Sparc-based Niagara servers from Canonical, the Linux distributor of Ubuntu, the companies said on Tuesday. The free Debian-based Ubuntu distribution of Linux, launched in 2004 by South African dot-com billionaire Mark Shuttleworth, has already attracted millions of individual desktop users.

July 7th, 2005 I hate to say this but after installing Ubuntu on a 1.8 GHz PC with 256 MB RAM, I found it to be slower than Windows 2000. Here is my experience.

April 24th, 2009 Ubuntu 9.04, released yesterday, has got a lot of great new features. One of them is ext4 filesystem.

May 13th, 2005 Note: My WordPress database name is wordpress. I will use it in the example below.

January 17th, 2009 Do you want to recover the MySQL root password. its by no means, easy.

March 16th, 2008 Apache HTTPD servers are configured by default to display directory listing, when index files like index.htm or index.html of index.php etc. are not present in the directory.

September 14th, 2008 One of the common challenges bash script writers face when writing a script which references files in the same directory (or its sub-directories) as the script file. As the script can be called from anywhere, you cannot use the current directory to refer to the files.