Tag Archives: sysadmin
Tar is not zip
Today, I had to package up some code that was residing on a remote server that I had ssh access to, to send to someone who was probably on a windows box. This meant I had to use the zip tool, which I can never remember how to use, hence this memory jogging post. Now [...]
After reading this, I think I’ll let someone else work on Solaris boxes in future
I was doing some research on StackOverflow today to find out more about using Chef-Solo to manage smaller numbers of virtual machines (i.e. less than 5 for example), and I came across this snippet on a confessional thread about the worst mistakes you've made as a sysadmin: I had fun discovering the difference between the [...]
Setting up wordpress to update itself
WordPress’s auto update feature is incredibly handy. However, not every webhost automatically has accounts setup to allow for this, and if click the promising looking auto-upgrade icon, you’ll often be face with this screen here: You get this screen when the folder containing wordpress belongs to the user, instead of the apache daemon; this is [...]
A brief primer on using ssh
I keep forgetting how to do this, so I'm writing this here for future reference. This year, as I use web app frameworks like Django or Rails more and more, I've increasingly been using the command line instead of tools like Transmit for making changes to sites and web apps. This works fine locally, but [...]
Looking for the best way to keep data on servers safe