Crond: enable logging

Depending on your distro , you will need to locate the syslog file. This file is normally found under /etc/syslog.conf

open this file and uncomment the line starting with cron.*

Restart syslog and cron

/etc/init.d/syslog or sysklogd restart

/etc/init.d/crond restart

The logs are normally stored under /var/log/cron

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Mysql: Can’t read dir of (errno: 13)

Error: ERROR 1018 (HY000): Can’t read dir of ‘./dbname/’ (errno: 13)

check the folder permissions on the db folder under /var/lib/mysql/

Try running chown mysql:mysql dbname/ -R or chown -R 700 dbname

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Windows: screen flipped upside down

Oops, You hit a few keys and notice your screen is flipped upside down. You can resolve this by holding down the CTRL +ALT keys then hit the up arrow.

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Female’s working in the tech field

Women In Technology International – Professional Women just completed their Annual Women Powering Technology Summit, where director of Facebook engineering Jocelyn Goldfein spoke about the importance of getting more women into STEM, what the key obstacles are and some changes that would make a difference in growing the number of women in tech.

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Whitehouse on Cybersecurity

President Obama has declared that the “cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation” and that “America’s economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity.”

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