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Secure Git Server – Preventing Git User Logging in via SSH

Michael Robinson — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:28:14 +0000

A short tutorial detailing the steps required to quickly setup a secure git server that doesn’t allow the git user access via ssh – in other words, git commands work & one may use keys for password-less access, but you may prevent any / all ssh keys from being able to log into your server [...]

MyTop, Top for MySQL ECPod must have jumped a bit in popularity, as today,...
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Make Service Run at Startup – CentOS Note to self: Stop forgetting this! Make a service start...

Atheros Drivers – In A Repository!

Michael Robinson — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:46:41 +0000

Now, instead of manually installing Atheros drivers, I can install them from ELRepo! First, find the device id for the network adapter: for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 }'); do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -n; done It’ll give output like: 02:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Atheros Communications" [...]

Atheros Drivers Centos 5.5 Servers went down. We think it had something to do...

Atheros Drivers Centos 5.5

Michael Robinson — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 01:27:29 +0000

Servers went down. We think it had something to do with the network hardware and / or the drivers ( Atheros AR81Family ) and their compatibility ( or lack thereof ) with our Centos 5.5 boxes. As our servers are in the PRC, I can’t physically touch them – luckily we have an excellent team [...]

Atheros Drivers – In A Repository! Now, instead of manually installing Atheros drivers, I can install...
Make Service Run at Startup – CentOS Note to self: Stop forgetting this! Make a service start...

Make Service Run at Startup – CentOS

Michael Robinson — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:02:11 +0000

Note to self: Stop forgetting this! Make a service start at boot: chkconfig httpd --add chkconfig httpd on --level 235 Check if a service has been set this way: chkconfig --list httpd From Enabling and disabling services during start up in GNU/Linux. What is that –level ### stuff? ID Description 0 Halt 1 Single-User mode 2 Multi-user mode [...]

Atheros Drivers Centos 5.5 Servers went down. We think it had something to do...

MyTop, Top for MySQL

Michael Robinson — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:43 +0000

ECPod must have jumped a bit in popularity, as today, while skim-reading the error log I noticed a lot of these: [exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[00000] [1040] Too many connections' in ../includes/classes/db/connection.php5 My initial reaction was to simply increase the connection limit in /etc/my.cnf. After doing that I also went through parts of our codebase [...]

MySQL Workbench I’ve very recently started using MySQL Workbench, and see it...

Rsync – Itemize Output Codes

Michael Robinson — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:14:04 +0000

I use rsync to manage backups between two servers separated by more than 12,000 kilometers. It works very well. I have the machines email me the output of the backup process, so I can easily check to ensure the backup succeeded with no problems. I try to go through the most recent email at least [...]

Rescuing Settings From Broken JDownloader Installation in Ubuntu Somehow I broke my JDownloader installation, by meddling with the...

Find and Replace Text Within Multiple Files in Linux – Avoid RSI

Michael Robinson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:02:15 +0000

After updating 100+ pages manually, I realized that I had neglected to add "index.php" to the end of certain links. Usually this would be fine, but the links in question are opened in Shadowbox, which will fail on pretty, "index.php"-less links.

Strip /uXXXX From String and Replace it With the Correct Unicode Character I discovered '/uXXXX' appearing where pretty unicode characters should be...
Perl Script to Insert DBpedia Infobox Data into a MySQL Database This script parses out the Wikipedia page, DBPedia Infobox Predicate...