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Getting the current user in Jenkins

Updated! Yet Again! There are several ideas and comments below on ways to get the…

Managing Jenkins as a service and starting at boot time

Linux Services I have an Ubuntu Linux VM that runs Jenkins, and to make life…

Some PHP examples

I recently wrote a couple of PHP Pages for my site: UK Area Code Search…

Jenkins Agent Nodes

This Jenkins Agent Nodes post covers: What are they? Why may I want one? How…

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/…

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…