Writing this article because I had some weird stuff installing en enabling quota on my Ubuntu virtual server: When using a shared webserver, it is always nice to know which site is using what amount of disk space. This is of course, when each site runs under its own user. Of course you can use df […]
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When performing a apt-get upgrade on a Xen Debian Squeeze Virtual Machine, you might encounted errors like: Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 (2.6.32-45) … Running depmod. Running update-initramfs. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d. run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.32-5-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 2.6.32-5-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 Searching for GRUB installation directory … found: /boot/grub Searching for default file … Generating
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There is no straight forward way to schedule a cron job so that a certain command gets executed biweekly, let’s say every 2 sunday nights… To be able to do this, you need to extend your cron command with a command that tests the day of the week. In my case I needed to perform
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