Sysadmin
Debian Lenny and quota on /home
by Artur on Jan.26, 2010, under All, Sysadmin
There is a small how to here however it describes how to install on / partition. Here are clear instructions for /home. (continue reading…)
Reinstalling list of GEMs on a new server
by Artur on Jan.26, 2010, under All, Sysadmin
When I have to migrate servers to new OS or reinstall list of gems on another box you can get a quite big list of gems to install. This post will describe how to do it “admin way” which basically means that whatever has to be done more than once should be scripted
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Nagios check_file_age mod
by Artur on Dec.22, 2009, under Sysadmin
As I don’t think in seconds about time and more like hours days etc. I’ve added this small bit of code to Nagios check_file_age script to display age in days. I’m using this to check PID file age for service that needs daily/weekly restarts. (continue reading…)
Capistrano and rake process in the background
by Artur on Nov.30, 2009, under Sysadmin
This is useful for Capistrano deployments when you need to start rake process which doesn’t run as daemon.
Ubuntu 9.04 server + PHP5 + FCGI
by Artur on Oct.05, 2009, under Sysadmin
If you want to run Apache with mod_worker you will have to us PHP via FCGI. Here is how to install it on Ubuntu 9.04 Server edition.