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…
Continue ReadingChange 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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