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very interesting
I like this idea. I was trying to figure out how cron handles locking if some of the jobs are really long. Synchronously? Asynchronously? I never found a very clear cut answer. However I did find this program for keeping … Continue reading
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apache log size limit
Sounds nasty. Pretty much is. Found this cool tip from another blog: Apache won’t do this for you – all it does is write lines to a filehandle. However, the filhandle doesn’t need to lead to a file, it can … Continue reading
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rename all files and folders lowercase
Interesting: find my_root_dir -depth -exec rename ‘s/(.*)\/([^\/]*)/$1\/\L$2/’ {} \;
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remote samba share
not sure if this will work. I guess it does. I’ve found multiple resources[1,2] citing nearly identical solutions. I think the 2nd one is a little easier to follow. It seems like the way to do this changed considerably from … Continue reading
linux command line calculator – bc
It seems like the last time I looked up how to get floating-point results I found a different answer. Anyhow, here is one possible way: echo ‘scale=10; 33/4′ | bc I found an interesting post in the process. It seems … Continue reading
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ok, here we go – LAMP https setup
Older server with this setup is turned off. So I’m going to document it. Where was that place that offered free certificates? startssl.com. The process: sign up email verify create a key install key – mostly click “ok” a few … Continue reading
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changing sendmail’s host name and via[mailed-by] hostname
so far only have a link to a good looking resource. It actually talks more about hostname in general linux sense. Need to test it out, see what I can get accomplished. Then will try to find more fine grain … Continue reading
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commandline sendmail test
title says it all… sendmail -s “Hello world” email@domain.tld believe you need root privileges. search helping: send mail, send-mail, command line. *For some reason this command is not working on some ubuntu server. getting: sendmail: invalid option — ‘s’. tried … Continue reading
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Linux version and distributioin information
I always by default remember ‘uname -a’, which is mostly related to kernel information. I also pretty frequently need to know which version of ubuntu or centos I am using. ‘lsb_release -a’ worked ubuntu[a server verions]. There is some mention to … Continue reading
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