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Forum for Indians in Australia
Ausindians
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Keepalived instance not entering FAILED state
When a monitored interface goes down, the instance immediately enters FAILED state and the other instance gets into the MASTER state. But, if you have a script block to check – say you are monitoring HAProxy – and HAProxy goes down the MASTER will not enter FAILED state, unless you do this: Set the weight…
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Discourse with Docker on port 80
Discourse can cause you trouble if you have it running(listening) on a non-standard port inside the Docker instance. (the feed, google auth return url have the port and host info in them) (assuming you would like to serve requests from a standard http(s) port). To make it work smoothly, I had to make it listen…
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linux disk usage not adding up
Umount file systems on that partition one by one and look for files in the mount point. When mounting a filesystem on a mount point any existing files in that mount point are not deleted. They just appear hidden when running du.
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My First Android App
More info here: Graph Muni I wrote an Android client to view Munin Graphs. Please check it out.
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missing scheme in email body url
Some mail service providers (Yahoo Mail exhibits this at the moment), do not like links that do not have a scheme(http/https for instance) and will make the link non-clickable by removing the href. The fix is simple: Google Google
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how to not run a cron job between certain datetimes
Say, I have a cron job entry and do not want the job to run between 2013-02-01 9PM (Feb 1st 2013) and 2013-02-02 11AM (Feb 2nd 2013), this is one possible solution (in crontab).
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rsync only certain files
Create a file on on the origin server and use the –files-from option cd / rsync -anvi –files-from=/tmp/only_these_files . to-server:/ cat /tmp/only_these_files /srv/www/mysite/uploaded_files/9a3d3d9046aaad4bbe3074d794a6adaf.jpg /srv/www/mysite/uploaded_files/5ca1c97efd730427f846e457bd0a0667.png /srv/www/mysite/uploaded_files/5b0923025b4a1fde3a34119bfcd56567.jpg /srv/www/mysite/uploaded_files/870ed45d9ad704deace8fb541242425a.jpg
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Starting KVM guest after memory change
After a memory module was taken out the system, the KVM guest was failing to start complaining about insufficient memory. Editing the domain XML file (in /etc/libvirt/qemu on Debian) to use less RAM and then trying to start the guest did not work. I had to do this: libvirt-bin restart for the the updated XML…
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WordPress + Nginx + Permalinks Rewrite rules
The following works for me: I have my blog here: http://www.trk7.com/blog/and my permalink structure is: /%postname%/