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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…

August 19, 2012
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%/

May 13, 2012
Bella donna

Bella donna won’t be tamed Belluci, however, is unconcerned about what her children might think of her movies. ”If you are scared about what people think or what you represent or what your image can be, then you are not free any more in your choices. That can be dangerous for your art. I think…

September 26, 2011
Backgrounded PHP jobs in ‘STOPPED’ state

This could be specific to the PHP package from Ubuntu. Please consider the following a disclaimer. $ php -v PHP 5.3.5-1ubuntu7.2 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: May 2 2011 23:00:17) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies with Xdebug v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2010, by Derick Rethans $ cat /etc/lsb-release…

September 21, 2011
Parrallel processing from the bash commandline

for i in `seq 1 40`; do echo $i; /tmp/script.sh >> /tmp/script.out 2>&1 & done Note the lack of ‘;’ before ‘done’. The ‘&’ indicates the end of the statement.

September 20, 2011
Checking for the existence of domains from commandline in Bash

while read line; do wget –quiet –spider –timeout=10 $line; if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo $line; fi; done < "/tmp/domains.txt" /tmp/domains.txt would hold the list of domain names separated by newline. Note this is just a quick hack and not entirely reliable.

June 16, 2011
myisamcheck running out of tmp space

Recently I was running myisamcheck on an entire database housed inside a vserver. And, by default vserver mounts a 16MB ramfs on /tmp. This obviously is not an ideal solution when you are running a DB server that has a few tables that are around 20GB. So I had to specify a different directory for…

June 15, 2011
gzip/bzip2 taking too long to compress large files

Use pbzip2. I have noticed significant reduction in time while compressing files larger than 1GB.

May 3, 2011
Getting rid of MySQL Warning: Truncated incorrect DOUBLE value

If you come across a cryptic warning like this: | Warning | 1292 | Truncated incorrect DOUBLE value: ‘xxxxxxx’ on running a MySQL query, it could be caused by using a numeric value against a CHAR/VARCHAR column. —assuming `name` is a CHAR/VARCHAR column —the following query might cause warnings SELECT * FROM `t1` where `name`…

April 20, 2011
PHP as a replacement for sed/awk

I had gotten sick of not being able to do what I wanted to do with sed/awk – partly because I am not too familiar with those – and, was investigating replacements for those. Many people seem to be using perl and since I wasn’t too familiar with Perl as well, I started thinking about…

April 12, 2011

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