Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 is the most recent LTR released about a week ago, so naturally I wanted to take a look. I upgraded my test server which is where I run demo installs of various content management systems and where I store works-in-progress. This requires that the server must serve up a number of applications written in php, django, plone, and ruby on rails. Continue reading

Rysnc from 1 linux box to another and keep the file structure identical

Delete files from the target directory that have been deleted in the source directory
rsync -avz -e ssh --delete remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir/ /this/dir/ Continue reading

I inherited a number of web servers that had been installed and configured by different contractors and am now in the process of evaluating what needs to happen to bring them all up to snuff as well as figuring out ways to streamline regular updates. Some of those web servers are still on Red 7.3 (!), the last free open source version of Red Hat. They’re quite old in server years. Additionally I have a few other servers I set up a year ago that are more up-to-date running Ubuntu 8 LTS, but the Apache version is 2.2.11 and 2.2.8. Our security scanning service notifies me regularly that SSL v 2 must be upgraded to SSL v3, which requires an upgrade to Apache 2.2.13 Continue reading

Setting up the Slicehost Account

Update everything
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade Continue reading

I know there are plenty of articles and posts for setting up a development server. Yet I still find the need to write up the exact commands and process for my later self to refer to, especially since I haven’t found a clone function in VMware Fusion like the linux version has. A pet “when-I-have-time” project would be to turn these steps into a bash script. Continue reading

When I was in college, my fellow classmates and I whined to each other about the gyrations it took to just get our development environments configured so we could do our homework … building a development environment was not the assignment. Continue reading

This is on a freshly installed Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Modify version numbers as needed

1. install g++
   sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd

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