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Extracting Smarty variables from source 24 Aug 2011 | 11:18 am
You can extract all of the variables in use from a Smarty template using a simple call to *nix grep with a trivial regex expression. Here is the command:
Dumping Addresses from phplist 27 Jul 2011 | 02:56 am
We recently moved away from phplist (goodbye phplist — we loved you for a while but now we need more power). Here is the SQL used to rip our users out of the main list. Attributes 1 and 2 are the firs...
Installing vzdump on CentOS 5.4 (32-bit) 20 Jul 2010 | 07:04 pm
There are a few items required for installing vzdump for OpenVZ on 32bit CentOS. First, make sure you read the installation post covering the 64bit install. Here are the commands for 32bit. Here is h...
Adding NRPE (Nagios) to CentOS / RHEL Servers 20 May 2010 | 04:03 pm
We use nagios to watch our networks and I always forget the simple steps necessary to drop NRPE on the virtual servers or physical services. This post is simply my process I use to drop NRPE on our se...
Adding the REMI Repository to CentOS / RHEL / RedHat 9 May 2010 | 05:40 am
I am a fan of the REMI Repository. Here are the steps necessary to add, enable and then update your box w/ the latest packages from the REMI Repository. UPDATED – 2010-08-29: Location Updated for the...
How to Re-number an OpenVZ Container from one CTID to another 28 Apr 2010 | 12:31 pm
Poor planning: I guess I am guilty. A few times I have needed to re-number an OpenVZ Container. You just need to know what your current CTID is (sourcecid) and your desired target CTID (targetcid). H...
The non-breakable Dash / Hyphen 3 Feb 2010 | 04:21 pm
In HTML you may find that the dash / hyphen character is a breakable character and if you are attempting to create a region where line breaking is not desired you may need a non-breakable space charac...
Updating Ghostscript on CentOS 5.4 (ghostscript 8.70) (the remix) 5 Jan 2010 | 07:26 pm
A while back I wrote an article on updating to ghostscript 8.63 on CentOS 5.2. I received a fair amount of email and comments on the topic ranging from “thanks” to “you don’t know what your talking ab...
Setting VPS Disk Space with OpenVZ the “easy way” 15 Nov 2009 | 09:10 pm
Disk space can be easily controlled via OpenVZ but I have yet to find anyone to actually explain what the heck to “really” do when you need to add more! Everything I have found about OpenVZ just expla...
Installing vzdump for OpenVZ on CentOS 15 Nov 2009 | 07:48 pm
There are a few items required for installing vzdump for OpenVZ on CentOS. First, you’ll need an MTA – I suggest making sure you have postfix installed; if you have postfix installed the initial RPM ...
