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If you want to add yum to a virtual instance you can do it by running the following command:

$ vzpkg install -p [VEID] yum

While I was reading more about AD and Apache, I ran into the following quote by “Sander Marechal”

“Microsoft Active Directory is a bit-rotten crock that should have never seen the light of day. After two full days of waving dead chickens at it, trying to make any sense of it’s irrational behavior I would love nothing more than to pick it up and throw it off the roof of our building, BofH style, aiming it at the PHB that bought it in the first place. Or it’s programmer. Whomever passes by first. It’s API only vaguely resembles LDAP after at least three bottles of whiskey or one pan galactic gargle blaster and squinting really, really hard.”

I laughed, then proceeded to bang my head against the desk!

I laughed, and then I figured out the problem…

I believe in mass hysteria and panic! Well, not completely. I ran into an issue with yum not updating correctly. The solution was really simple:

$ cd /var/lib/rpm/  && rm -rfv __db*

Run yum clean all and re-run it. It should work for you.

In case if you ever run into an issue with .cgi scripts not executing on a Plesk server, try the following:

1. Locate httpd.conf (usually in /etc/httpd/conf/) and use vi to edit it.
2. Look for the following line: # AddHandler cgi-script .cgi and remove the comment from the beginning of the line
3. Save the file, then run $ service httpd reload

Evidently everyone has the same issue but no one has a good solution for WordPress (2.5.1) error when you edit a post: tinyMCE is not defined. The solution is to remove js_cache from wp-content/uploads/ folder. Clear your web browser’s cache, then try to edit the post. It will correct the issue.

The nix* ftp client doesn’t support recursive directory uploads (bah!), so the sensible alternative is to use something like LFTP:

$ lftp -u user,pass -e “mirror –reverse –delete –only-newer –verbose /source /remote” ftp-server