I use quite a lot of vpns. On any given moment I have between 3 and 10 active vpn connections from the machine I'm working on. I generally tend to use OpenVPN, but I also do use vpnc (Cisco VPN client). One ...
As you perhaps know I'm fan of pgbouncer - connection pooling solution for PostgreSQL. It can do many really cool things, but has one slight issue. Since it can reuse connections - it has to provide a way to check if user ...
I have an unusual mail setup. My company mails are handled by gmail, and on my account there, I setup forwarding to my own mail account on my own server. Where I read the mails, and respond. So, when someone (let's say ...
I'm quite often doing stuff on remote machines, and quite frequently I start some long-running job, when I remember that I didn't ran it via screen - so it will break, if my network connection will die. Is there any sane ...
Question from title sounds weird to you? It's just a 'rm backup_filename'? Well. I really wish it was so simple in some cases. One of the servers I'm looking into, there is interesting situation: quite busy database server (2k tps is the ...
I'm quite happy user of Arch Linux. BUT... Recent upgrade changed Xorg to new version which requires HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer). Problem: when HAL is turned on, it totally breaks my keyboard - generates extra "key presses" when using "special" keys - ...
Every so often I need to find who exactly is damaging database performance. I mean - I have db connection which does something strange/wrong with the database, but what exactly is responsible? Switching to separate user for every program, script and ...
simple brainteaser. take no more than 30 seconds to think about it: using standard cron installed on your unix system, how often would this command be run: */57 * * * * command ? if you choose to answer in comments, please supply ...
there is this situation: multiple people have to have access to single system account on unix/linux. you are one of them, but you really want to have your own environment. aliases, path, and so on. problem? others dont want your changes. is ...
