Category Archives: server

PHPHOST BLOG

Web Hosting Related Articles You May Need

[one-liner]: Working with VMware ESXi 3.5 via the command line

Posted on May 2, 2011 by News

Background

Recently I’ve been getting more hands on experience with VMware ESXi 3.5 at my day job. It seems pretty capable in it’s free version form. After familiarizing myself with the command line shell over the last few days it’s finally starting to make sense. If you’ve worked on any Red Hat distros such as Fedora/CentOS/RHEL […] Continue reading →

Posted in one-liner, server, shell, Syndicated, sysadmin, tip, tips & tricks, virtualization, vmware | Comments Off on [one-liner]: Working with VMware ESXi 3.5 via the command line

[one-liner]: Getting Remote Desktop Sharing & Compiz to play nice under Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME

Posted on November 8, 2010 by News

NOTE: This is an update to my original post on this problem when I 1st encountered it in Ubuntu 9.04.

Background

This one threw me for a bit but I finally realized that when I had Compiz enabled on an Ubuntu 10.04 system, I couldn’t use VNC to connect via Remote Desktop Sharing in GNOME (aka. Vino, […] Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, one-liner, remote desktop, server, Syndicated, tips & tricks, Ubuntu, VNC | Comments Off on [one-liner]: Getting Remote Desktop Sharing & Compiz to play nice under Ubuntu 10.04 with GNOME

[one-liner]: Getting Remote Desktop Sharing & Compiz to play nice under Ubuntu 9.04 with GNOME

Posted on October 5, 2009 by News

Background

This one threw me for a bit but I finally realized that when I had Compiz enabled on an Ubuntu 9.04 system, I couldn’t use VNC to connect via Remote Desktop Sharing in GNOME (aka. Vino, aka. VNC Server). Apparently this has been an issue going back since 2007 8-(, when Compiz is enabled. Since […] Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, one-liner, remote desktop, server, Syndicated, tips & tricks, Ubuntu, VNC | Comments Off on [one-liner]: Getting Remote Desktop Sharing & Compiz to play nice under Ubuntu 9.04 with GNOME

[one-liner]: How to Properly Use nohup

Posted on August 24, 2009 by News

Background

Today a co-worker, let’s call him Evan, was trying to retrofit the UNIX command nohup into a script that I originally developed, and was not having much luck. He was trying to debug a unstable server daemon that’s called by my script. The server daemon had been crashing for the better part of 2 weeks, […] Continue reading →

Posted in one-liner, server, shell, Syndicated, tip, tips & tricks | Comments Off on [one-liner]: How to Properly Use nohup

[one-liner]: Port Forwarding Using PuTTY

Posted on August 14, 2009 by News

Here’s a little trick that I learned how to do the other day while at work. I’ve done this before using ssh in a linux terminal but hadn’t had the chance to actually do it from a windows box using PuTTY.

Objective

To access a web server (on a remote linux box) which is listening on port […] Continue reading →

Posted in networking, one-liner, server, shell, Syndicated, sysadmin, tip, tips & tricks, tunnelling | Comments Off on [one-liner]: Port Forwarding Using PuTTY

[one-liner]: Pulling Usage Data out of Apache’s access_log

Posted on July 22, 2009 by News

The other day a website I maintain started experiencing what appeared to be a DoS attack. When this occurs I usually take a peek at Apache’s access_log to see if there is an “unusual” amount of traffic coming from a set of IP addresses. A DoS can be classified as one of 2 situations:

a lot […] Continue reading →

Posted in apache, monitoring, one-liner, server, Syndicated, tip, tips & tricks | Comments Off on [one-liner]: Pulling Usage Data out of Apache’s access_log