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		<title>Remote backup using ssh and tar</title>
		<link>http://vint.ca/2012/01/remote-backup-using-ssh-and-tar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Vint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To backup a directory on a remote machine to a local machine (or the other way around) in Linux, there are several methods: 1. rsync -avz username@remoteserver.calm:/home/stuffToBackup /opt/backup This will recursively copy everything from remote to local preserving permissions and ownership 2. scp -r -C username@remoteserver.calm:/home/stuffToBackup /opt/backup Again, this will copy everything from remote to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rsync backups over ssh</title>
		<link>http://vint.ca/2011/03/rsync-backups-over-ssh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Vint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always seem to forget how to do this, so here it is: To copy files from /home/pvint/stuff directory to the /opt/backup directory on a remote server: rsync -avz --progress /home/pvint/stuff -e ssh pvint@theBackupServer.calm:/opt/backup Or going the other way, pull from remote server: rsync -avz --progress -e ssh pvint@theBackupServer.calm:/opt/backup/stuff /home/pvint/ Notes: The -a option is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>500 &#8211; Intermittent Internal Server Error when posting form &#8211; Apache</title>
		<link>http://vint.ca/2011/03/500-intermittent-internal-server-error-when-posting-form-apache/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Vint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you find that certain forms cause an &#8220;Internal Server Error&#8221; (500) in Apache on occasion, a good thing to check is for mod_security configuration blocking a &#8220;potential threat&#8221;. In my case, I saw the following in /usr/local/apache/logs/modsec2_audit.log: [Wed Mar 09 13:36:34 2011] [error] [client 192.168.50.222] ModSecurity: Rule 7dd3610 [id "-"][file "/usr/local/apache/conf/modsec2/rootkits.conf"][line "155"] - Execution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linux: rsync file copy and backup over ssh</title>
		<link>http://vint.ca/2011/03/linux-rsync-file-copy-and-backup-over-ssh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Vint</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Reference]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vint.ca/?p=636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To copy files over the network from one machine to another: Copy from remote server to local (pull): rsync -avz -e ssh remoteuser@example.com:/home/source_directory /home/destination Copy from local machine to remote hist (push): rsync -avz /home/backups/source_directory -e sshremoteuser@example.com:/home/destination/directory Like Unlike]]></description>
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		<title>Perl one-liner to find and replace text recursively</title>
		<link>http://vint.ca/2011/03/perl-one-liner-to-find-and-replace-text-recursively/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Vint</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Reference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Handy little Perl one liner example to find and replace text across multiple filess/directories: find . -name '*.php' -print0 &#124; xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/findThis/replaceWithThis/g' Like Unlike]]></description>
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		<title>Resizing an LVM2 partition with ext4 filesystem</title>
		<link>http://vint.ca/2010/12/resizing-an-lvm2-partition-with-ext4-filesystem/</link>
		<comments>http://vint.ca/2010/12/resizing-an-lvm2-partition-with-ext4-filesystem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Vint</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Reference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To resize an ext4 formatted partition with LVM2 on a Linux system, it is recommended to unmount it, do an fsck, then resize it as per below, fsck again, then mount. Today, when my /usr/portage partition on my gentoo system was too full, I decided to try the &#8220;Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!&#8221; approach, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sendmail/procmail &#8211; not receiving email &#8211; &#8220;Suspicious rcfile&#8221; error</title>
		<link>http://vint.ca/2010/12/sendmailprocmail-not-receiving-email-suspicious-rcfile-error/</link>
		<comments>http://vint.ca/2010/12/sendmailprocmail-not-receiving-email-suspicious-rcfile-error/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Vint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adding permissions on a directory containing a user&#8217;s .procmailrc file can cause failures in delivering mail, and you will see messages like the below in your log file (typically /var/log/maillog or similar): Dec 9 03:16:04 host sendmail[2627]: oB98G4g2002627: forward /home/paul/.forward.host: Group writable directory Dec 9 03:16:04 host sendmail[2627]: oB98G4g2002627: /home/paul: unsafe directory path, marked unsafe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recursively remove files from CVS controlled directory</title>
		<link>http://vint.ca/2010/12/recursively-remove-files-from-cvs-controlled-directory/</link>
		<comments>http://vint.ca/2010/12/recursively-remove-files-from-cvs-controlled-directory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Vint</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Reference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To recursively delete files in a directory tree that is controlled by CVS, at a Bash prompt do the following: for dir in $(find -type d ! -name CVS); do for file in $(find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f); do rm $file; cvs delete $file; done; done; cvs remove Note that you still need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enabling spellcheck in OpenOffice 3 (Gentoo Linux)</title>
		<link>http://vint.ca/2010/10/enabling-spellcheck-in-openoffice-3-gentoo-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://vint.ca/2010/10/enabling-spellcheck-in-openoffice-3-gentoo-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Vint</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux Reference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After installing OpenOffice 3.x in Gentoo Linux you may notice that the spellcheck doesn&#8217;t work (ie: you run spellcheck and it just says &#8220;Spell Check Complete&#8221;). Assuming you have a dictionary installed (look in /usr/portage/app-dict and install the appropriate myspell-xx dictionary), you can enable the dictionary by going to &#8220;Tools&#8221; menu in OpenOffice, then select [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change the default &#8220;View Source&#8221; application in Firefox</title>
		<link>http://vint.ca/2010/09/change-the-default-view-source-application-in-firefox/</link>
		<comments>http://vint.ca/2010/09/change-the-default-view-source-application-in-firefox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Vint</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HTML and CSS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linux Reference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I find I&#8217;m constantly using the &#8220;View Source&#8221; option in Firefox while working on sites, but the default viewer isn&#8217;t the best. To configure Firefox so it&#8217;ll use a different viewer, do the following: 1. In Firefox, enter &#8220;about:config&#8221; in the address bar (if you get a warning about dragons, heed it, but continue) 2. [...]]]></description>
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