I just tried the famous shell fork() bomb on my Laptop, which is running Debian lenny. (I dare to do this because I’m going to shut down my laptop.) Please note that do NOT run it on your production server! (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) [...]

The mod_setenvif module allows you to set environment variables according to whether different aspects of the request match regular expressions you specify. These environment variables can be used by other parts of the server to make decisions about actions to be taken. The SetEnvIf directive defines [...]

This is a Perl module that was posted in a comment by our friend Justy (a.k.a. the iSheep), it solves a problem that I’ve faced a lot, especially with Perl scripts that run as daemons, where you need to copy files to a mount point. but if the mount point has failed then you’re just copying the files [...]

In some sort of problems, ext3 goes read-only to protect the filesystem against further damages. What could cause such a readonly problem? It’s difficult to get an exact answer, but I’m inclined to take it as a file-system issue, though some hardware problems will trigger this error as well. (function(d, [...]