Install libmcrypt el6

When trying to compile PHP I noticed the libmcrypt package is no longer provided with EL6 / CentOS 6, checking whether to enable multibyte string support… no checking whether to enable multibyte regex support… yes checking whether to check multibyte regex backtrack… yes checking for external libmbfl… no checking for

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Max processes 1024 limits.conf

We where having an issue with replica sets on our MongoDB databases changing primaries. The logs shows it was hitting resource limits creating new processes. [initandlisten] pthread_create failed: errno:11 Resource temporarily unavailable [initandlisten] can’t create new thread, closing connection There is a bug fix in the init.d available per https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-6443

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Unable to uninstall munin

While testing munin 2.x on debian, I was unable to uninstall it, Removing munin-node … [FAIL] Munin-Node appears to be unconfigured. … failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript munin-node, action “stop” failed. dpkg: error processing munin-node (–purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 6 [FAIL] Munin-Node appears to be unconfigured. …

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ERROR: Module backupdriver is in use

While updating several of our remaining systems from r1soft CDP 2 to CDP 3 we’ve been getting the following error, ERROR: Module backupdriver is in use r1soft-uninstall-buagent -R This uninstaller will remove the following.. File /etc/init.d/buagent File /usr/bin/buagent File /var/lock/buagent.lock File /var/run/buagent.pid File /usr/bin/r1key File /usr/bin/r1soft-cki File /usr/bin/r1soft-report.sh File /usr/bin/r1soft-uninstall-buagent

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