Nominations for Google-O’Reilly...
Nominations for Google-O’Reilly...
Nominations for the 5th Annual Google-O\'Reilly Open Source Awards are now being accepted. As in previous years the awards are open ended so nominations should also include the name of the award / achievement in addition to a nominated recipient (e.g. Best Lifetime Contributor, Community Builder, Tool Builder, Overall Hacker, etc..). Nomina [...]
GNU find – execute command afte...
Normally we use the "find" command to search for some files and post process it using the pipe ("|"). But do you know find can process the results without using pipe? Here it is :Read more »
FreeBSD : web cluster – Frontend ngin...
Previously, I posted write-up on glusterfs on FreeBSD clusters. Here the installment on round-robin web proxy part. In my configuration, nginx is running as front-end and apache is the back-end. Both boxes have same configuration on nginx and apache. Nginx SSL cert and key should be the same as well (with same common name i.e. www.yourdomain [...]
Update my old CardStatus page…
If anybody still cares about 16-bit PC Cards and 32-bit CardBus cards still, I\'ve updated the latest testing I\'ve done.You can find it here. I think it does more to show what a big pack-rat I am, but maybe someone will find it useful. It shows I\'m down to one or two ed cards that aren\'t working for (Read more...)
how to check disk space utilization
Command : dfCommon parameters :-h = display sizes in human readable format, kb, mb & gb-i = display inode usage rather then disk usagee.g.df -hdf -hiSee Ya !!!
mysql server – how to reduce di...
One fine day, the server disk usage report that, the one of the partitions is almost full. After some searching, the database directory at /var/db/mysql/ (FreeBSD) or /var/lib/mysql/ (Linux) is occupying most disk space. Listing the directory only to found out that mysql-bin.0000* are the ones that is occupying the disk space. What are these [...]
50th BSD Video Posted: All DCBSDCon &...
50th BSD Video Posted: All DCBSDCon &...
Jason Dixon has made available the last 4 videos from DCBSDCon 2009. The last video marks the 50th video uploaded to the BSDConferences YouTube channel. This channel was created less than 5 months ago and now has 924 subscribers from authenticated YouTube users, and the videos have been viewed over 76,000 times by users from around the worl [...]
20 FreeBSD Summer of Code Students An...
20 FreeBSD Summer of Code Students An...
Leslie Hawthorne from Google today announced the students selected to participate in this year\'s Google Summer of Code. Among the 1,000 students from 70 countries participating in this program, 20 will be working on FreeBSD projects, 11 on NetBSD projects, and 5 on DragonFly BSD projects.Keep an eye on the FreeBSD wiki and mailing lists for [...]
Videos from DCBSDCon Posted
Videos from DCBSDCon Posted
Thanks to Jason Dixon and Will Backman, the first 8 videos from the first DCBSDCon are now available in the BSDConferences YouTube channel. The audio quality for these is better than many of the previous conference videos because Jason was able to sync the audio with a direct recording from the podium taken by Will. These videos were also [...]
vim – case insensitive search a...
A short tip. For searching in vim, enter the \"Command-line\" mode by type a colon (\":\") in \"Normal\" mode (Esc twice at any time) and type \"set ignorecase\" for case-insensitive search.e.g.:set ignorecaseAdditionally, for \"next\" occurrence or match, type \"n\" or \"N\" for \"previous\" occurred match.Ciao !!!
FreeBSD networking – IP address...
This is another follow up post on DHCP aka Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, which posted first in here and then here. FreeBSD are commonly used as a server. One might ask why does it needs to auto assign IP using DHCP ? Should not it running static IP so that the server are contacted by the host always (Read more...)
vim – basics of search and repl...
When cleaning up some config file with hundreds of lines, browsing up and down just to find the key word can be eye dazzling, in the pungent way. :)The good thing about vim is, it is able to find any text you want using the "Search" command (/) in the "Normal" mode ( (Read more...)
FreeBSD : nginx with php-cgi on unix ...
UPDATE : Check out recent committed /usr/ports/www/spawn-fcgi/, it comes with a better spawn-fcgi rc.d script. Please use the script from the post. However, the spawn-fcgi.sh provided does not have option to run via unix socket. I have submitted the patch.
Few days ago, I posted a write-up, FreeBSD : php-cgi spawn-fcgi rc.d script for nginx, [...]
FreeBSD : Glusterfs with SSL (via stu...
I have been working on parallel round-robin web clusters (is this the right term?) using 2 x FreeBSD 7.1 AMD64 boxes, nginx (patched with fair upstream), apache + php (backend), glusterfs, tinydns (sitting on another box, a name server, for round robin A record) and mysql multi-master replication. The setup is mainly making use of round-robi [...]
3Com 3C1 works
Years ago, I bought a 3Com 3C1 CF card. This card was an early attempt by 3Com to minimize the power usage of the traditional 3C589 line of cards. These cards were important for the early palm-sized PDAs that were on the market. Through a number of different connections, I was able to get documentation on the 3c1. At the (Read more...)
bash – how to print or display ...
Printing variables or text within bash script is good for debugging. It can trace which line or variables is having problem. echo is the commonly is used for such debugging purpose. But some times we need it to print tabs, new line & other escape strings in a one liner bash. One way to do it is using printf : (Read more...)
