Useful Commands
A list of commands / references I’ve found useful. Also see my old wiki page. stdbuf – Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its...
Some thoughts
Posts about system administration.
A list of commands / references I’ve found useful. Also see my old wiki page. stdbuf – Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its...
I wrote about using netcat to measure bandwidth between servers which works perfectly well in a minimal sort of way (and in particular between servers...
It’s often the case when analysing system logs that you want to create a summary bringing together data from different lines of a log –...
I’m at a conference, I have my ChromeBook (vanilla, no local linux installs or any such thing), I have internet and I’ve set up a...
When you have more than one public key set up to be able to access a single account (ie more than one public key listed...
For plain bytes/second bandwidth testing – ie without taking things like encryption overhead and compression improvements into account – the netcat command-line utility is pretty...
The Scenario A couple of terminals open, connected to a mix of your own workstation, local development servers and remote servers running on a different...
Setting up WordPress server there were a couple of minor wrinkles to sort out. I’ve run a blog before before and that fell by the...
The Problem: A Default Setting By default user registration is enabled. It’s important to realise that even though links to the user registration page may...