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Apache had crashed and when trying to restart it with service restart apache or /etc/init.d/apache restart the following error would result in the error_log file:
 (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock Configuration Failed
There weren’t any apache processes lingering around and the disk had plenty of space and inodes left. The following URL [...]

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Previously when I tried to rip one of my Blu Ray disks to a .m2ts file on the DS209+ and tried to view it via the PS3 (uPNP on Synology 209+) I had to contact Synology support as it broke indexing completely on the DS209+.
I thought I had done something wrong ripping the blu ray, [...]

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Received a new Dell R300 2.8Ghz Quad Core, 8GB RAM, 2×500GB SATA drives, PERC RAID controller and needed to install Windows 2003 x64.  The CD/DVD (“Systems Management Tools and Documentation Version 5.5″) that comes with the Dell systems allows you to boot into the “Dell Systems Build and Update Utility” so that you can install [...]

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OS: Ubuntu 6.06
Setup: 2 disks RAID 1.  3 partitions, 2 of which are md devices.
Problem:Primary disk failure with grub 25 error and bad sectors
Machine was not booting past grub 1.5 and was saying “Error 25″.
Grub error code 25:
 25 : Disk read error: This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying [...]

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Needed to set the upload_tmp_dir on a domain in Plesk and by default upload_tmp_dir was returning no value.
URL:

Parallels FAQ: I’m getting an upload_tmp_dir error on the php that I have installed. How do I fix this error?

The above URL suggested setting the upload_tmp_dir value via the vhost.conf file:
# File:  /path/to/vhosts/domain.com/conf/vhost.conf
<Directory /path/to/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs>
php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /tmp
</Directory>
It then suggests [...]

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