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Add Comment »Every want to recall something you did / wrote in your terminal months ago. I have configured a few servers in my day and through the that time I try to be good and document my steps but every now and again I go off on a testing spree and try a few things, get something working and shift focus and forget about documenting what made it work.
I didnt realize until only recently that everything you type into you terminal window gets logged. So if you ever want to recall your previous bash scripts open your terminal and simply type
Which will return the log dump of your bash history, every command you have ever typed. Great if you cant remember exactly which vnc server you installed last year to get a headless server running flex unit or whatever may have slipped your mind. Test
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Add Comment »Ive been looking around for a new theme for my blog for a while now, ive looked at all the posted themes on too many sites and although many of them do look amazing and really come close to what im looking for, none of them hit the mark exactly. So with that said, for those of reading this, all 2 of you 
the sites theme is a work in progress and will be getting regular update, time permitting of course.
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Add Comment »Now that I have CruiseControl configured and running on my server I need a way to be able to stop/kill the processes, so I did some research and found this.
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1 Comment »I recently setup CruiseControl on my server and figured it might be helpful to some to put together a little walk through. My server runs CentOS and Plesk which adds a bit of difficulty above the standard rehl *nix configurations. By the end of this walk through you should be able to browse to your CC on your server.
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6 Comments »Just a quick walk through on installing subversion on a CentOS server running Plesk. What your going to want to grab is a fresh copy of YUM to handle the installation of subversion. YUM ( Yellow dog Updater, Modified) is “… an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm…”
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The short of of the long is this, I switched my server last week to dreamhost after hearing so many good things about their services. I have a few colleagues who are on their systems who raved about them, and well, i was drawn into it. So… made my payment, switched my dns, let it all propagate through, woke up next morning to find out that dreamhosts main file server has been down for over 1 week and because of this my website, email, and ftp were now all down too.
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