Today my server ran out of disk space. With the help of my friend Ed I was able to pin point the exact location. If you run this command from the root of your server: PLAIN TEXT CODE: du -sh … Continue reading
April 1, 2011
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Category Archives: debian
March 22, 2011
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This site is now powered by Nginx
I took the plunge this afternoon and switched from Apache 2 to NGinx. For the most part I followed the instructions posted here. Since I am now running Debian Squeeze there were a few things to note: spawn-fcgi: there's a … Continue reading
June 12, 2010
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Once again Kudos Linode
I recently had to re-build my VPS and with the help of the documents over Linode's Library I was up and running again within a couple of hours. A great concise, informative and accurate resource for configuring Linux based servers. … Continue reading
April 20, 2010
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Configuring Jetty’s memory usage
Debian specific, but if you need to edit jvm configuration details for Jetty, look for this file: PLAIN TEXT CODE: /etc/default/jetty And locate the lines below to start fine tuning Jetty's memory usage: PLAIN TEXT CODE: # Extra options to … Continue reading
March 22, 2010
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Recursive delete
I new it was possible, just never took the time to look it up. PLAIN TEXT CODE: rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn` As with all types of deletes, recursive or not, use with caution. For windows use: … Continue reading
March 20, 2010
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Deploying grails app to Jetty
Short and sweet, step by step guide for creating a grails war and deploying it to your Jetty server (includes apache2 proxy steps) grails war (your app), in this case epic.war Copy to server PLAIN TEXT CODE: scp epic.war user@server:/location … Continue reading
March 16, 2010
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Apache/SSL configuration (on debian)
More for posterity, this was the last step that was eluding me. I had found numerous resources to get me started on the path to setting up Apache and SSL, but when it came to having a working config and … Continue reading
March 9, 2010
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Upgrading to Lenny
It's been while since I attended to my VPS, I decided to spend some time last night upgrading my distribution from Etch to Lenny. This is normally a moment where your heart sinks as quite a few things do tend … Continue reading
June 30, 2005
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tail | grep
After reading a quote on a mailing list last week about the concept behind unix tools and their focus on doing one task well and the OS allowing you to pipe several commands in one go, it dawned on me … Continue reading