Posted by klejnieks »
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
Posted by klejnieks »
Add Comment »More recently I have been having some issues with Plesk, I’ve felt like I’ve been fighting with Plesk’s default generic templates and cookie cutter processes. What should be simple such as adding custom wars to Tomcat end up proving more times then not to be a royal pain. This passed month I ended up playing around with Hudson, a Continous Integration server, and I found myself struggling through what should have been a seamless installation. Basically it took me 10 minutes to setup, install, and configure my first build in Hudson on my Mac but to be honest I ended up giving up after 3 days of struggling to get Hudson installed on my dedicated CentOS server that ran Plesk. Dont get me wrong, there are plenty of other things that bug me about Plesk but this latest thing was what ended up pushing me to get a basic server setup from scratch and configured exactly as I wanted it.
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