Sean’s Obsessions

I’ve really been getting into cfengine lately to manage configurations across multiple servers.
One thing I want to do is to make sure that the proper services are started. Making sure they’re running is easy with the processes command:

processes:
“cfenvd” restart “/sbin/service cfenvd restart”

I also want to make […]

As part of my work with b5 I’m wrangling with 10 servers now. When I started out it was 3, so keeping configurations in sync was pretty easy, a bit of shell scripting, a bit of rsync. But now we’ve got server roles, we’ve got config files that are slightly different per server, […]

Over at b5media we have some internal code that ties all the blogs together to make us a network. This was initially implemented as a brilliant little REST API, only requiring minor changes in some database tables that could completely alter how the network was arranged. Additional functionality could be added easily to […]

I’ve had a need to distribute the memcached and APC modules to various web servers in a farm. pecl/pear modules have a pretty cool interface similiar to yum, but it’s all based on source. It does, however, have facilities to help you build an RPM. Because I try to use RPM for everything […]

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Stops the tabs from rotating on the front page.
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