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Tomcat 6 with logrotate

Quit a few of my clients purport to being professional Java developers. The problem I have with such a statement is that they always use Tomcat and never know how to set it up. Now, I am not saying that they are not professionals. I am saying that I try and understand the tools with which I make a living and most of the people I have trained are the same way. Anyway, the number one problem I always get asked to fix is log rotation.

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Migrate Redmine from MySQL to MariaDB

I recently switched from MySQL to MariaDB. As a result my Redmine installation decided to rebel and I, of course, didn’t even notice until a user informed me. The error message that Redmine (ruby actually) threw was not at all cryptic:

“Incorrect MySQL client library version! This gem was compiled for 5.1.63 but the client library is 5.2.13-MariaDB.”

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The Rules of *NIX Club

1st RULE:You do not talk about *NIX CLUB.

2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about *NIX CLUB.

3rd RULE: If someone says “crash” or goes off-line, drops carrier the hack is over.

4th RULE: Only two guys to a hack.

5th RULE: One hack at a time.

6th RULE: No Macs, no Windows.

7th RULE: Hacks will run as long as they have to.

8th RULE: If this is your first night at *NIX CLUB, you HAVE to migrate.

   
 
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