I was troubleshooting an issue at work the other day regarding some PostgreSQL connections that were not closing. They were left IDLE, never closed, and eventually used up all of the possible connections (which totaled 100) configured in the postgresql.conf configuration file. In the process of troubleshooting I noticed a bunch of Postgres log entries…
Nagios is an awesome open source application that provides a way to monitor pretty much anything that you can think of on your network. There are tons of plugins written for Nagios that will monitor anything from PostgreSQL database size to the number of users logged into a server. Today I needed to start monitoring…
I needed to create a bash shell script tonight that called another shell script with options that then would load a Ruby environment and execute certain commands within a Ruby project. I ran into numerous issues but most were silly things such as typos or other minor issues caused by myself. The one issue I…