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Load Balancing and Reverse Proxying with Nginx

Using Nginx is a convenient method to set up a load balancer and remote proxy for websites and web apps. Example configurations demonstrate use cases.

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Setting Up a Network Share – Part I: NFS

Setting up NFS on a Linux server to provide client access to Mac OS X boxes can be a challenge. Proper setup and configuration are necessary.

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Authentication and CouchDB

This post collects some of the articles and code snippets I tracked down while researching how to secure a CouchDB server.

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Creating a Custom Yum Repository for Puppet

Puppet's automated management of installed applications and libraries can be enhanced with custom package repositories, such as a custom yum repository.

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Bash, Pipes, and Standard Input

If we simply drop the less than character, we will be providing our script to bash as an argument, leaving standard input untouched. Life is good.

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Remote mysqldump without Temp Files

A description of using pipes with ssh in a way that allows the results of mysqldump on a remote machine to be stored locally without creating a temporary file.

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Preventing Spam E-mail with SPF Records

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Parsing Arguments in Bash (getopts)

Have you ever passed several parameters to a command like this: ls -lah, and thought “I wish my bash scripts could parse command line parameters like that.” Allow me to introduce y

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Complementing Time Machine with rsync

I usersync and cron to back up my Documents and Library directories hourly. These directories contain all of my files whose changes would be difficult or impossible to re-create by

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Resizing LVM Volumes on a Virtual Linux Host without Reboot

LVM allows volumes to be dynamically resized online—no rebooting is required. This presumes, of course, that LVM is set up initially when the virtual host is created.

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Running Low on Disk Space Using MySQL Replication?

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Monitoring and Management with Monit and Nagios

We selected Monit for process level monitoring, and Nagios for server and infrastructure monitoring.

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