Many cloud servers don’t come with a swap partition setup by default, including Amazon EC2 servers. Luckily it’s fairly simple to setup. Below were using
How To Dump a Man Page to a Text File
Dumping a man page is easy, just redirect the output to standard outvia a bash as below.
Easy Log Rotation with Logrotate On Ubuntu
You don’t need to write your own log rotation service in Linux, you can use the built in service called logrotate super easily. Below is
Speed Testing T-Mobile One Tethering
I work remotely all the time and love being able to work from anywhere via tethering my Mac to my iPhone. I recently switched over
DOMDocument PHP Tutorial
DOMDocument function is used to parse and manipulate HTML and XML documents in PHP. Below are a few examples on how to use the DOMDocument
How to Update Brew and Upgrade all Packages on OSX
I used to run Linux Ubuntu up until a few years ago as my laptop. But I find the hardware and software on a Mac
Cron Job at 7 am Everyday and Other Crontab Examples
Cron is the Linux system for repeated scheduled tasks. Below are a few examples on how to use cron, what the fields mean, and how
How To Exclude Mobile App Traffic in Adwords Buys
Much of the adwords mobile app traffic is junky and low converting and sometimes you’ll want to exclude it altogether. The easiest way to do
Search Inside Text Files With Grep
Grep is too important not to know for Linux sysadmins. Grep is commonly combined with other commands via pipes to search and filter standard output.
Several Ways to Run Queries from Bash
In some of these examples, particularly the remote server I’ve included usernames and passwords, but you might not need it locally, depending on your mysql
