Archive for the ‘linux’ Category

What caused that load spike?

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Every now and then, we find that we will have a sudden increase in the number of apache processes, load average will spike up, and then go back down to normal. In rare cases, we will see the same thing happen, and the load avg spike WAY up, all ...

Public and Private Keys over SSH

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

I found a very good explanation of how to set up public key authentication over ssh. I'm always looking for it when I need it, and it always takes forever. http://www.petefreitag.com/item/532.cfm You can also use ssh-copy-id, I'm not sure what the specifics are behind it, but it seems to be available ...

Rsync over SSH

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Took me a while before I got on the ball and starting doing this for syncing my web servers docs to my local machine (for backing up). I had previously used Interarchy for this, but I really prefer to use the command line, where I can schedule it via ...