Setting up OpenNebula on Ubuntu

Some very rough notes on installing and configuring OpenNebula on an Ubuntu host. On the…

Mount Windows share on Ubuntu

Some notes on setting up and auto mounting a Windows Share on an Ubuntu host.…

Some Useful Solaris Commands

Here are a few (mostly) Solaris tips and tricks I have found useful and wanted…

Persisting file permissions in a tar.gz file with Ant & tar

Discovered an interesting issue recently where file permissions were not being preserved when Taring up…

Using lock files in a bash shell script

This post is old (2011), there are many better ways to do this. See https://www.unix.com/man-page/linux/1/flock/…

Updated to latest Jenkins

Finally got around to trying out "Jenkins", the latest incarnation of the forked "Hudson" project, and…

Using Postfix for WordPress email notifications

Here are my notes on installing and configuring Postfix on an Ubuntu host for WordPress.…

Serving WordPress as the default page

Here's a note of what I needed to do in order to get WordPress serving…

Quick directory listing for large file systems

  Useful bit of Perl code - folk at work found this useful approach on…