Debian Lenny, Avahi, AFP… Linux Fileserver for OSX Clients
If you’re like me you have an OSX computer or 3 at home, and a debian file server. If you’re…
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making munin-graph take advantage of multiple cpus/cores
I do a lot of things for Automattic, and many of the things I do are quite esoteric (for a…
Using wait, $!, and () for threading in bash
This is a simplistic use of the pattern that I wrote about in my last post to wait on multiple…
bash – collecting the return value of backgrounded processes
You know that you can run something in the background in a bash script with ( command )&, but a…
a dumbed down version of wpdb for sqlite
I’ve been working, gradually, on a project using an sqlite3 database (for its convenience) and found myself missing the clean…
Postfix, DKIMproxy, Spamc
If you’re running any moderately busy mail server you’re probably using spamassassins spamc/spamd to check for spam because its tons…
Writing your own shell in php
I’ve always wanted to write my own simple shell in php. Call me a glutin for punishment, but it seems…
Internally Caching Longer Than Externally Caching
We use varnish for a lot of our file caching needs, and recently we figured out how to do something…
Command line arguments in bash scripts
This is something that has always annoyed me about bash scripts… The fact that it’s difficult to run /path/to/script.sh --foo=bar…
Bash Coding Convention ../
We use dirname() a lot in php to make relative paths work from multiple locations like so. The advantages are…