How to fix error utf8_mime2text()

Today I encountered the following error while recompiling php with imap support on a customer’s server (CentOS 6.4 – 64 bit): configure: error: utf8_mime2text() has new signature, but U8T_CANONICAL is missing. This should not happen. Check config.log for additional information. Unfortunately the config.log did not say much either, so I began searching on Google what …

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How to fix dracut Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora error

The day before I decided to install the latest Fedora (20) MATE spin. I downloaded the iso image and used rufus to create a bootable USB drive.
Once I restarted my computer and chose to boot from UEFI:USB Fedora began to load but unfortunately it soon got stuck and threw the following error:

dracut Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-Live-MATE-Compiz-x86_64-2 does not exist
Dropping to debug shell
dracut:/ #

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How to install and configure OpenVPN server on CentOS

OpenVPN is one of the open source applications that allows you to create your own Virtual Private Network. We are not going to cover all the topics regarding VPNs, but for short these are used to transfer data from point A to point B in a secure way. Of course this allows us to bypass …

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How to clean Ebury SSH Rootkit

Before providing the solution let me first describe you the issue.

Early this morning I received a request from a customer to check out his servers he suspected that these were hacked. He complained about a similar issues a couple of weeks ago when he suspected something was wrong with nginx, apparently visitors from US were redirected to a page containing malware.

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