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tutorials
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04.28.08Up the WP
bash, tutorials, wordpress (3)Give me WordPress, give me WordPress You can have all the rest, give me WordPress I love Matt's little blogging engine that could. It's easy, fast, and pretty to look at. It's easy to install. It is not, however, fun to upgrade. That's a problem, because people keep on coming up with tricksy little ways to burninate WordPress. Now, the folks who write the code are pretty good at staying on top of chinks in the armor, but that means that every time they say "update", I have to update. Being the lazy ass that I am, I don't like to keep doing ...
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04.27.08Bash it! Bop it! Script it!
bash, tutorials (1)I would rather spend 3 hours writing a program to do a task than have to spend 3 minutes doing it myself more than once. Seriously. I'm that lazy. The only task I like to do over and over again is opening a Corona, taking a sip, filling it back up with tequila, and passing out in a pool of my own vomit. Or, as my kids like to call it, "Thursday." That kind of laziness means I use a lot of bash scripts to do regular tasks on my server. I have scripts to do automated backups, scripts to setup ...
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03.29.08Housekeeping, or, How To Obsessively Blow Up The Files Left Behind
debian, tutorials (0)I install, and then uninstall, lots of different software packages on Debian. I'm trying to learn how this thing works, so I'll often install something, poke around, and then remove it. But, I get paranoid about the package manager leaving things behind on my system. Cron jobs, config files, libraries, all that jazz.
So, I do some housekeeping to make sure that everything, absolutely everything, gets blown up when I remove a piece of software. Is it necessary? Probably not. Does it satisfy my deeply rooted obsessive control issues? It does.
I'll assume you've already removed the software using the package manager ...
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08.07.07Plate Up! Bash Script for Apache VHost Setup
apache, debian, tutorials (5)In the sisyphian marathon of blowing up and rebuilding my server, I've had to go through the process of reconfiguring my virtual hosts for Apache2 several times. Well, that gets a bit tedious. How can my hands do the very important jobs of holding a beer up to my lips whilst scratching my man candy if they have to keep typing "sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/newdomain.com" over and over again? bash it! Fear not, my young linux adventurers. There IS a better way! Pop that cold beer, pull up some sweats, and feast your eyes on my hand dandy little bash script for ...
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08.07.07postfix, dovecot, emailtastic!
VPS, debian, dovecot, email, postfix, tutorials (0)I've gots the email! I gots the email! Christopher Haas has written what might be the best tutorial I've ever run across for linux. It's accurate, complete, breaks things down into manageable steps, and explains what you're doing while you do it. It also contains several "check" steps, where it shows you how to check your system logs to see if the previous steps went as planned. This is what a tutorial should be! Howto: ISP-style Email Server with Debian-Etch and Postfix 2.3 If you're trying to get email up and running on your debian VPS, this is the place to start. It ...
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08.02.07show version
debian, tutorials, ubuntu (0)Just ran across a very useful little utility called apt-show-versions. It shows you the version installed for each of the apps you have on your server, along with whether or not they are the latest version. Used in conjunction with the apt-cache show command, this makes for a handy little set of tools for working your way through tutorials. It's available through the repository on Debian Etch and Ubuntu sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions To see everything installed via apt, use the bare command apt-show-versions Or you can use it to check on a single package apt-show-version nano
CLIdiot is not a professional geek. He's just a slightly geeky guy who thought it would be neat to setup his own server. These are the rants, tirades, and occasional insights of an normal person trying to figure out linux.