Awk & sed Snippets for SysAdmins

Selecting CMS Software

If you are looking for an open-source content management system, your choices are likely to boil down to these three: Joomla!, WordPress, and Drupal. Professional CMS developers tend to disregard WordPress as a purely blogging …

Restart Apache, MySQL When Low on Memory

Heavy traffic, hungry SQL queries, leaky applications will eventually leave your server low on memory. Apache will go on a hunt for swap space and MySQL will start freezing in thoughtful contemplation. Your hard drives …

Apache and Multiple Domains – from Home

Apparently there are folks out there who are still interested in running their own Web server from home. More than that – they want to have multiple domains. Guys, Web hosting these days is so …

Upgrade procedure for phpBB2

The following is an example procedure for upgrading phpBB2 bulletin board software running under Linux. This procedure allows to retain forum customization.

Download “Changed files only” package from http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php
Tar cvf and gzip the entire phpBB2 installation …

NetBackup statistics, Part I

The following script will calculate total size of data backups for each Veritas NetBackup client over the past week (or as defined by the “daysago” variable in the script). The final output will be uploaded …

Install PHP, Mysql, Apache2 on Solaris 9

A sample procedure for installing PHP, MySQL and Apache2 on Solaris 9.

Apache MySQL PHP Solaris 8 Installation

A sample procedure for installing PHP, MySQL and Apache2 on Solaris 8.