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Creating a Process Table hash in Perl
I came across a situation where I needed to access the process table in Perl. The problem that i found was that the best accessor Proc::ProcessTable only retrieved an array. Since it seems fairly senseless to keep looping over an array to find the exact process id that I want, you may want to turn…
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Deleting Lots Of Files (SysAdmin problem solving exercise)
Since I know I am not the first (or the last) to make a typo in logrotate and not catch it for a while…someone else must have been in the position of having to delete a lot of files in the same manner. I recently learned that, as usual, there is more than one way…
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MySQL Proxy Query Profiling
Since I am now finally getting to play with MySQL Proxy, I am going to outline some recipes here that I have found/created/modified that may be useful to someone other than me. This is a recipe for profiling queries. It writes the information to the PROXY_LOG_FILE currently name mysql.log. It is a file that will…
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Text Messages to Cell Phones via Email
I have been compiling a list of the domains that one needs in order to send text messages to cell phones via email. As a huge user of Nagios, this is how I keep myself aware of the status changes. Below I have listed the carriers that I use most frequently. If you have any…
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Cloning a Virtual Machine in VMWare VI3 without Virtual Server
I, like many other people working in a small company, have to fix problems and come up with solutions with cost at the forefront. I had to make many virtual machines appear from nowhere to create an environment in virtually no time at all. Since all I had was VMWare Server (for Linux), I started…
