admin There is no right or wrong answer here, except the one dictated by your own personal religion and the contents of the hier(7) manpage on your system. typical Linux hier manpage ; typical BSD hier manpage) /var/git/* seems reasonable to me personally. That’s where I keep mine.
/bin/false is a utility program, companion to /bin/true, which is useful in some abstract sense to ensure that unix is feature-complete. However, emergent purposes for these programs have been found; consider the BASH statement /some/program || /bin/true, which will always boolean-evaluate to true ($? = 0) no matter the return of /some/program. An emergent use … Read more
The default limit is to allow 5 restarts in a 10sec period. If a service goes over that threshold due to the Restart= config option in the service definition, it will not attempt to restart any further. The rates are configured with the StartLimitIntervalSec= and StartLimitBurst= options and the Restart= option controls when SystemD tries … Read more
It’s a pretty sure bet that running an exe file in Linux won’t work. In Windows you do run it from the command prompt. If you get a message about the command not being found then either add the path to the command to your PATH environment variable or specify the full path to the … Read more
Aha, just stumbled across an article explaining this. Also Django have info on their NewbieMistakes page. The solution is to make sure the directory containing the database file also has write access allowed to the process. In my case, running this command fixed the problem: sudo chown www-data .
By default Ubuntu doesn’t specify a ServerName in the Apache configuration, because it doesn’t know what the name of your server is. It tries a reverse lookup on your IP address, which returns nothing, so it just has to use the IP address as the ServerName. To fix it, either add a ServerName directive outside … Read more
Every minute of every day of every week of every month, that command runs. man 5 crontab has the documentation of this. If you just type man crontab, you get the documentation for the crontab command. What you want is section 5 of the manual pages which covers system configuration files including the /etc/crontab file. … Read more
You can do pretty much anything with apache log files with awk alone. Apache log files are basically whitespace separated, and you can pretend the quotes don’t exist, and access whatever information you are interested in by column number. The only time this breaks down is if you have the combined log format and are … Read more
The Apache ProxyPassRewrite does not rewrite the response bodies received from http://test.example.com, only headers (like redirects to a 404 page and such). A number of alternatives: One) Rewrite the internal app to use relative paths instead of absolute. i.e. ../css/style.css instead of /css/style.css Two) Redeploy the internal app in a the same subdirectory /folder rather … Read more
Some people will say no public DNS records should ever disclose private IP addresses….with the thinking being that you are giving potential attackers a leg up on some information that might be required to exploit private systems. Personally, I think that obfuscation is a poor form of security, especially when we are talking about IP … Read more