xargs
If not already in your toolbox, xargs should be: read items from the standard input, delimited by blanks (which can be protected with double or single quotes or a backslash) or newlines, and executes the command (default is /bin/echo) one [...]
Planet Sysadmin growing strong
We now have over 100 blogs at your finger tips on Planet Sysadmin (actually 110 at last count). Thanks to all of the all of you who have sent in great suggestions of feeds to add. Keep them coming! I [...]
Multi-Master MySQL Replication
MySQL replication is pretty good. It’s easy to set up and fairly robust. There’s two things keeping it from being really awesome – you have a master and a slave. That means applications need to know which server to write [...]
mod_deflate on Apache 1.3.x
Thanks to Ilia, you can have mod_deflate on your Apache 1.3.37 servers. Hey, if it’s good enough for the php.net site, it’s good enough for me! I’ve been mucking with mod_gzip but hitting a bad bug with proxied requests. With [...]
10 mental blocks keeping you from being a kick-ass sysadmin
Ok, it’s actually an article about 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking but isn’t creative thinking a huge part of being a kick-ass sysadmin? Here’s what I thought of when I read each point, but I highly recommend that you [...]
Open Source in the Enterprise
Looking for Open Source options for your Enterprise? A great resource is the Enterprise Open Source Directory where you can search Open Source software ratings, read case studies, look at what specific industries are doing, find blogs and forums and [...]
Setting up a Netgear WG511T on Fedora
Using madwifi to run a PCMCI Wifi card on Linux is a mad easy. After adding a atrpms.repo definition to yum: [ atrpms] name=Fedora Core $releasever – $basearch – ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 includepkgs=madwifi madwifi-kmdl* madwifi-hal-kmdl* Then one command: [...]
Disable Trackpad Click on Linux
I recently bought a used IBM ThinkPad T40 and put Linux on it (Fedora, specifically). It’s the first Linux laptop I’ve had and so the first trackpad I have had to deal with outside of a Mac. I hate trackpad [...]
zgrep
NAME zgrep – search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename… DESCRIPTION Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. All options speci- fied are passed directly to grep. If [...]
iLife ’08
I’m not big on closed source software but Apple wins me over every time. I just put some order to 5000+ photos taken over the last 5 years in about 45 minutes with the latest iPhoto using “Events”. Worth every [...]
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