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  • Revisiting ZFS and MySQL

    While at Percona Live this year I was reminded about ZFS and running MySQL on top of a ZFS-based storage platform. Now I’m a big fan of ZFS (although sadly I don’t get to use it as much as I used to after I shutdown my home server farm), and I did a lot of…

  • Compiling MySQL Workbench on Gentoo

    The Workbench team have just announced the release of Workbench for Linux, including binary packages and source packages with instructions on how to build. I’m a Gentoo Linux user, so I prefer building from source, and you’ll need to emerge the fo…

  • MySQL Documentation and Debian/Ubuntu

    We’ve got a lot of queries recently on the MySQL docs team address about the documentation (particularly man pages) for MySQL on Debian/Ubuntu. The source of the original problem was reported as a Debian bug. The assumption from the reading of the…

  • Mysterious crashes? – check your temporary directory settings

    Just recently I seem to have noticed an increased number of mysterious crashes and terminations of applications. This is generally on brand new systems that I’m setting up, or on existing systems where I’m setting up a new or duplicate account. In…

  • Setting up the developer stack issues

    There’s a great post on Coding Horror about Configuring the Stack. Basically the gripe is with the complexity of installing the typical developer stack, in this case on Windows, using Visual Studio. My VS setup isn’t vastly different to the one Je…

  • Setting a remote key through ssh

    One of the steps I find myself doing a lot is distributing round an ssh key so that I can login and use different machines automatically. To help in that process I created a small function in my bash profile script (acutally for me it’s in .bash_a…

  • Extra bash improvements

    If you’ve read my Getting the most out of bash article at IBM developerWorks then you be interested in some further bash goodness and improvements. Juliet Kemp covers some additional tricks on Improving bash to make working with bash easier. Some …

  • Copying multiple files with scp

    I keep my .bash init scripts on one machine and copy them over to each machine on which I have a login. There’s various bits of logic in there to ensure that the right PATH and other values are set according to the host and/or platform. I then hav…

  • Stepped execution with cron and at

    I had a query from a reader today as a follow up to my System Administrators Toolkit: Time and event management article at developerWorks: How do I execute a script at a specific interval, for example 28 days, rather than on a specific day or date…

  • GNU/Linux – Fad or Favoritism picked up by Linux Today

    I’ve picked up bloggin at FSM again, and my first post has been picked up by LinuxToday already. I urge you to read the article, but the basis of my thoughts are whether my current Linux distribution choices are because they are better than my pre…