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Tag Archives: sysadmin
Keeping a process running
Have you ever had a process that dies on occasion? For me, I hate that situation and prefer to fix the software as opposed to have a monitor that restarts the process when it dies. I’ve run into a case … Continue reading
Posted in System Administration
Tagged bash, cherrypy, gentoo, linux, process, ps-watcher, python, startup scripts, sysadmin, turbogears
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Can Google’s Adsense bot understand gzipped html pages?
During my experiments with WP-Super-cache, I noticed a strange thing happen to my Adsense ads. A short while after getting gzip compression to work properly, all my ad content had foreign characters and strange seemingly unrelated content. Having changed nothing … Continue reading
How to virtual host load balanced websites with ldirectord and Apache
I posted a while back on getting Heartbeat set up to add reliability to websites. After a few weeks of experience with the system, I thought I’d add a few additional tips on making the setup more reliable. There are … Continue reading
Posted in System Administration
Tagged apache, fault tolerance, heartbeat, ldirectord, scalability, sysadmin, virtual hosts
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Using piped svndumpfilter commands to separate an svn repository
According to the documentation for svndumpfilter, you can include one subcommand when filtering a dumped repository. Suppose you have a repository that has a path “/some/path” that you’d like to separate out into its own new repository. From the documentation, … Continue reading
Posted in System Administration
Tagged repository, source control, subversion, svn, svndumpfilter, sysadmin
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Upgrading an OLD Gentoo Machine.
I’m in the process of re-installing a pretty old machine with the latest Gentoo. I’ve got a shared NFS directory with portage and all my machines are using a packages directory. After one machine builds something, another machine can simply … Continue reading
One way to unemerge lots of unneeded packages on Gentoo Linux
As part of a recent project, I had installed a lot of packages on a separate machine to test my configuration. As is common, with Gentoo, you want to run the following before you actually emerge anything: emerge -p <package_name> … Continue reading
