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RightScale RightScript To Update CentOS iptables Rules On RackSpace Node

Code SnippetsBy alexJune 15, 2012Leave a comment

Recently while working on some node or instance automation using RightScale I needed to have some extra iptables rules created automatically when a new node booted. Initially I was just trying to do this via iptables commands which I note below but it would never work. After digging through the logs I realized that the…

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Move Long Running Linux Process To Screen Session

InsightsBy alexJune 14, 2012Leave a comment

Have a long running Linux process open in a SSH terminal window and need to shutdown your computer without killing it? I run into this on a regular basis and never spent the time looking into a solution but this past weekend I actually decided to look and came up with a cool solution called…

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Exclude Multiple Directories When Creating A tar Archive

InsightsBy alexJune 13, 2012Leave a comment

Earlier when upgrading a WordPress site that is running on a CentOS Linux server I needed to quickly backup the entire site to then perform an upgrade of the core WordPress installation. There are multiple directories located beneath the primary site folder that I didn’t need to backup including some caching directories as well as…

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Find Out The Amount Of Time A Linux Process Has Been Running

InsightsBy alexJune 12, 2012Leave a comment

I always forget the ps command arguments to see the length of time that a Linux process has been running so I am writing it out here in hopes of remembering it in the future without having to read the ps manpage. I also will know I can easily search this later to find the…

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CentOS Linux Parted Error: Unable to open /dev/sdc – unrecognised disk label

ErrorsBy alexJune 11, 2012Leave a comment

While rebuilding a large RAID 5 logical drive I had to use parted instead of fdisk. It has been awhile since I had to build a logical drive that was over 2TB so it had been quite awhile since I have used parted which will perform the same basic functions as fdisk and more. Anyhow…

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Represent A Tab When Using sed Find/Replace

Code SnippetsBy alexJune 10, 2012Leave a comment

The other day I needed to create a RightScript shell script that would update a couple configuration files on a server that was being launched in the RackSpace Cloud via RightScale. I decided to use SED to find and replace content within the configuration files. The first pass at the script failed because what I…

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Xbox 360 Transfer Account From Hard Drive To USB Flash Drive

InsightsBy alexJune 9, 2012Leave a comment

Recently I have been using my Xbox 360 gamer profile a lot at my office to stream music using Zune. While I do have an Xbox 360 at my office and at my house it can be a pain because I have to lug the hard drive with my Microsoft Xbox 360 Gamer Profile on…

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Rename USB Drive Used With Xbox 360

InsightsBy alexJune 8, 2012Leave a comment

Recently I started using a USB flash drive to store my Xbox 360 gamer profile on and realized it would be nice to name it properly so if I have decide to have more than one USB flash drive in use with my Xbox 360 they won’t both be named the default of Memory Unit.…

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Configure USB Flash Drive To Work With Xbox 360

InsightsBy alexJune 7, 2012Leave a comment

Instead of having a hard drive on your Microsoft Xbox 360 you can instead use any USB hard drive. The limitation is the fact that you can only format 16GB of any USB drive to work with the Xbox 360 so unless you want multiple partitions on the USB drive I would actually just purchase…

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