I have a FreeBSD 7.1 server, a couple of macs, a windows machine, and an ubuntu machine. I need to share files between them all. I could try to get NFS for windows working, but it seemed to me that using Samba was a good way for me to allow all of the machines (Even […]
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Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts
Having fun and solving problems can be mutually exclusive. Even for professional programmers and system administrators who chose their career because they enjoy problem solving, there can be times when finding a solution is an exercise in the mundane. Luckily, there are tools designed to ease the pain and frustration faced by programmers and admins. […]
PHP/Recode fail
I use PHP on FreeBSD servers, compiled from the ports system. It works very well, except that sometimes… well… sometimes… segfaults happen. Yes random, bizarre, “how did this working system suddenly become non-working wtf” errors happen. Here’s an example of what happened to me today. This is a snip from my lighttpd error log (mod_fastcgi.c.2722) […]
ISC DHCPD duplicate uid lease
Ever see this? dhcpd: uid lease 192.168.1.150 for client xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is duplicate on 192.168.1/24 or something like it, in your dhcp logs? Well I checked /var/log/messages today and saw that I had thousands of this message repeated over and over (so much so it was spamming my log and making it harder to find what […]
Sed on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Imagine you’re a PHP developer that uses OS X. You’re given 50+ php files that all have a line that needs to be changed. 50 files, one change? Hmmm sounds like maybe I could use automator to do this! Well I don’t know how to use automator 😉 Luckily, I’m a unix geek, and even […]