reading out the history of a file under svn

I found this code on the web a year or so ago – I ran into a situation where I needed to look through change on a file kept in version control in subversion, in detail. I needed what change was made, by whom, and the sequence in which the changes were made to trace…

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wordpress code snippet plugin

I had a perl script code snippet I wanted to put in a post. I tried the <pre> tag, the <code> tag, nothing would work, so I gave up and moved it into a separate file with an <a href= > tag. But the webserver refused to allow the file to be accessed even once…

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Change the time cron.daily runs

I’ve had many environments where we get alerts or strange behavior at or about 4 AM – the time that linux’s cron.daily runs by default. You can change that 4 AM time – perhaps stagger it among groups of servers. You can change it through puppet if you bring /etc/crontab under puppet control, then a…

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