December 23, 2010
by Ketan Patel
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Yesterday, I got a new server and was setting up a Ticketing server using OSTicket for one my sites. The installation of OSTicket went smooth per the documentation. However, the tricky part was to pipe the emails to osticket so … Continue reading
July 23, 2009
by Ketan Patel
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Recently, I moved over to a new host with a dedicated box and I had to setup the nameservers for my domain kpsolution.com. In Godaddy’s domain manager, I tried to change the nameservers to my domain like ns1.xxxx.com and ns2.xxxx.com, … Continue reading
January 21, 2009
by Ketan Patel
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On a production server, if you have two hard disk and do not want to spend extra $50 each month, then you could use rsync to backup the data from your main disk to the second disk. It’s very easy … Continue reading
November 5, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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I was looking around to find a good source which would allow me to control the background of the eclipse. I like black background with white text as foreground. Doing so in eclipse is not straightforward. My System setup is: … Continue reading
November 3, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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To generate a patch for your modified code. All you have to do is generate a diff between original and modified source files using the following command and save the output to the patch file. diff -rup /home/ketan/unmodified_source.c /home/ketan/modified_source.c > … Continue reading
October 23, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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Till now I have been using ‘ldd’ for checking out the dependencies for a linux executable. But recently I discovered, ‘readelf’. It is really amazing utility and comes in very handy when you are analyzing a utility intended for a … Continue reading
September 30, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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I keep on forgetting this command, so I put it here to remember it forever. To add a user ‘ketan’ to the group ‘admin’, do the following gpasswd -a ketan admin Such a simple and each to use command!!!
September 29, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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This post will help you create a new SVN repository and it assumes you have the SVN installed & configured on your computer/server. To create the repository for first time, issue the following command svnadmin create –fs-type fsfs /var/www/subversion/kpsolution Then … Continue reading
September 29, 2008
by Ketan Patel
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Recently on one of our new servers, we had an issue where the mysql daemon had halted on bus error. We couldn’t stop the mysql daemon using /etc/init.d/mysqld stop Then I looked at the error-log file for mysql in /var/log/mysql-error.log … Continue reading