Awk & sed Snippets for SysAdmins

March 2, 2022 – 2:00 pm

Books have been written on the subject of awk and sed. Here’s a small sample of commands I put together over the years that are useful for everyday system administration tasks. Most of these tasks …

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How do you protect your computer from viruses? Most computer users just buy antivirus software, install it, and reboot their PC – done. If only it was that easy. Over the past several years percentage of home and business computers infected with viruses has been steadily growing. Most PCs are sold these days with preinstalled antivirus software. And yet, the number of infected computers keeps on growing…

Installing and Configuring Ganglia

March 25, 2008 – 4:19 pm

Ganglia is a distributed performance monitoring application used primarily for tracking status of high-performance compute (HPC) clusters. Ganglia is a royal pain in the ass to install and configure even for a seasoned Unix sysadmin. …

Upgrade procedure for phpBB2

November 1, 2007 – 11:09 am

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 …