A silhouette appeared ad my door one day. “Can you please increase the size of the root partition on my VMWare VM? I assigned you a ticket. K, tnx, baiiiii!”, and they were gone the next moment. No chit-chat, no banter. Just a textbook blurt and run. I guess they were in a hurry, huh? … More Extending a partition, live
It happened. Admit it 🙂 You started a task on a server and now it’s 5 to 5pm (16:55 in military talk) and the task is only about half way through. And the little voice in your head goes: “Why, oh, why haven’t I started it in a screen instance?” Well, settle in and keep … More Live process transplant to screen with reptyr
A description is in the works. Here’s the bash script to look at while you wait.
“There are some files that need to be moved from server-A to server-B. Can you do it, please?”, I was asked one day. “Sure, no problem.”, I replied with confidence. Root is good. No sudo restrictions, everything just works right away. It can do wonders, just like a stick of dynamite. So don’t blow it … More scp -3 around that pesky firewall
Our WordPress network site tends to change a lot. Sites are added, sites are deleted. That means the list of site admins changes as well. To keep them informed of planned maintenance work and possible outages I use a mailing list. A simple updater script ingests a list of site admin emails and refreshes the mailing list. To … More How old is that file
I’ve been using a Mac for a while now. It took while to configure it to my preferences. But sometimes I really miss the feel of my old Linux based notebook. I had it all set up just right, the same keyboard shortcuts did the same thing in every application, the command line tools available … More dos2unix onna Mac
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