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Running Transaction Test… Killed

If you come across ‘yum’ suddenly dying during an operation with this message, this is likely the linux OOM killer doing it’s job. The problem at hand is that the machine you’re working on has very limited RAM, or SWAP is disabled. When the machine is nearing RAM capacity the OOM killer takes care of [...]

Convert Epoch to date in log files

Convert epoch to date all standard input files using perl one liner.

Mutt – Delete messages by date

Deleting old messages with Mutt, multiple mailboxes too.

Unable to get webmail password

Broken webmail access due to bad ownership/permissions on configuration files.