Simplify Regular Expression Search/Replace with Regexxer on Linux If you are tired of hacking together commands at the terminal or having to open a giant bloated IDE just to perform…

Monitor Your Website in Real-Time with Apachetop As a webmaster, I’ve often wanted to be able to see real-time hits as they arrive. Sure, Google Analytics is a wonderful package…

Backup MySQL Database to a file Backing up your database is a very important system administration task, and should generally be run from a cron job at scheduled intervals. We…

Add Sudo to Your Last Bash Command With "!!" Syntax How often have you typed in a command in your linux shell, and then realized that you forgot to type…

A "live" view of a logfile on Linux This approach works for any linux operating system, including Ubuntu, and is probably most often used in conjunction with web development work.…

Find Files that are Modified Today (or Since Certain Time Ago) in Unix To find all files that was modified since a specific time ago (i.e an hour ago, a…

Adding a logrotate script to clean up apache will normally take care of this problem. The default logrotate script is either /etc/logrotate.d/apache or /etc/logrotate.d/httpd. vim /etc/logrotate.d/httpd or apache insert the…