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Removing CTRL-M from Unix Files

April 16, 2015 – 4:44 pm
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This is a simple but annoying and persistent problem: text files edited on Windows and the uploaded to Unix acquire the “^M” character at the end of each line. In my experience, this little problem …

Observium Agent Installation on Pidora

April 13, 2015 – 11:50 am
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Just some quick notes on installing Observium agent on Raspberry Pi running Pidora. Pretty much the same process applies to any Fedora-like flavor.

Log Event Time Distribution

April 2, 2015 – 11:04 am
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When “once in a while” answer is insufficient and you need to know exactly how often a particular event occurs on the system, there are a few easy things you can try from command line.

A Better Mysqlcheck Script

April 2, 2015 – 10:44 am
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Mysqlcheck is a stand-alone MySQL utility for checking, optimizing and repairing tables. It’s a useful tool that allows automating the usually time-consuming database maintenance tasks. One of the advantages of mysqlcheck it is ability to run …