Darren Beale

debian start-up script tip

Sunday, April 16, 2006

If you’ve just installed something and want to make sure it starts on boot then the init.d script needs adding to the various run level folders as a symlink. It’s a bit of a drag and it can be sometimes forgotten. Never mind, Debian comes with a handy script: Lets assume that we have a script [...]

Creating a subversion repository

Friday, April 7, 2006

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I wanted to add my Zend Framework example code to subversion but to do that I needed a local Subversion repository As I had to figure out some of the bits how to this, I decided to put all of my steps into a mini How-To. Here it is: http://bealers.com/how-to/creating-a-subversion-repository/

Creating a second virtual hard disk for a linux server with VM Ware

Tuesday, April 4, 2006

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On my virtual Debian Sarge development server running within VMWare I wanted to create a separate virtual disk so that if I ever want to use the data on it with another virtual machine I can. Here’s the mini How-To: http://bealers.com/how-to/creating-a-separate-vmware-hard-disk-for-a-linux-virtual-server/

Vim: Enough tabs already

Sunday, April 2, 2006

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Scenario: You are connected to a Linux webserver via a Windows terminal client such as PuTTy. You copy some text to paste into a Vim document open on the remote machine and you get tab hell: Here’s an example of something I pasted in tonight: [code] ServerAdmin webmaster@host.some_domain.com [...]

Building a PHP Development server from scratch

Saturday, March 25, 2006

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New How-To added detailing all of the steps I took to build myself a home PHP development server: http://bealers.com/how-to/creating-a-php-development-server/

Using rsyc to mirror a subversion repository

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

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At work we use subversion to manage our code, we also use Trac to manage bugs which has handy hooks into subversion. Unfortunately they are on different (internal) servers. This is quick What I DidTM to get the live svn server (taipan) to sync with the Trac server (apu) taipan: svn server (Debian 3.0 woody) apu: svn mirror [...]

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debian start-up script tip

Creating a subversion repository

Creating a second virtual hard disk for a linux server with VM Ware

Vim: Enough tabs already

Building a PHP Development server from scratch

Using rsyc to mirror a subversion repository

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