Solving named.conf error: change directory to /var/named/chroot/var/named failed file not found

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.

September 23rd, 2006 This is a simple commandline Java utility which I wrote down in under 5 minutes to help in checking-in (svn commit) over 500 files which were modified but the dates weren't changed due to an error in our settings. So subversion failed to recognize it.

January 17th, 2009 Do you get this error message when you try to change the root password? mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)' Or may be you need to change the MySQL password for other users. So what do you do then? To change a normal user password you need to type: $ mysqladmin -u user-name -p oldpassword newpass

November 14th, 2008 Isn't it pretty annoying to burn any .iso file to make it work? In linux, you have a pretty simple way to mount an iso file without even burning them. This allows you to view the files within the iso file as simply as you would view files in any normal directory.

September 12th, 2008 I was doing something very simple - connecting to my own machine (with ssh) without using password. That should be simple right? I dutifully appended my id_dsa.pub to authorized_keys and expected that it would work.

July 6th, 2006 I was writing a xml data reader in Java using JDK's inbuilt XML processing libraries (JAXP) when I persistently hit across this annoying exception with error message: A pseudo attribute name is expected. The error is displayed on the first line itself.

March 26th, 2009 This small trick will tell you how you can compile a java source file from another java file on the go. You do not need to run it on a different page and compile it there and then get back to this program.

April 11th, 2007 Today while setting up and trying new application I found that one of the Gnome panels containing Applications, Places and System menu (taskbar for Windows users) wasn't displaying. After restarting the Gnome session I found an error message along the lines of: Error panel already running will exit panel.

December 15th, 2007 Our local setup consists of a single ntp server which synchronizes time from asia pool of ntp.org ([0-2].asia.pool.ntp.org) and several ntp servers in the intranet which synchronizes from the above server. This setup ensures identical clock on all the machines on the intranet as well as reduces load on ntp.org servers.

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.

April 5th, 2008 On running ./configure in dansguardian (web content filter for Linux), I got the following error - configure: error: pcre-config not found!configure: WARNING: Cache variable ac_cv_prog_PCRE contains a newline.. The solution, as usual, is simple: Install pcre-devel.

July 3rd, 2007 My blog had this vexing problem where it used to render ugly, really ugly, as the stylesheet wasn't being loaded on Firefox. However after a refresh everything was fine.

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.

July 31st, 2007 This is a sporadic error that I have seen in Firefox browsers while using the Ext JS components. It is not harmful in any way but is annoying.

January 6th, 2009 MySQL data directory is the most important and sensitive place for any administrator. How do you move the whole data directory all on a sudden? There is no particular topic in the internet writing about it clearly.