Automatically recover Tomcat from crashes

From vineetmanohar.com Tomcat occasionally crashes if you do frequent hot-deploys or if you are running it on a machine with low memory. Every time tomcat crashes someone has to manually restart it, so I wrote a script which automatically detects that tomcat has crashed and restarts it. Here’s the pseudo logic: every few minutes {…


Boomerang

boomerang always comes back, except when it hits something. Boomerang This piece of javascript measures a whole bunch of performance characteristics of your user’s web browsing experience. All you have to do is stick it into the bottom of your web pages and call the init() method. We’ll make it more complicated later. Documentation is…


Removing ASSP X

If you want to uninstall ASSP X, run the following in order from the command line on the server: /bin/rm -fv /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/addon_asspx.cgi /bin/rm -fv /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/asspxversion.txt /bin/rm -Rfv /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/asspx/ /bin/rm -fv /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/asspx /bin/rm -fv /etc/cron.d/assp /etc/init.d/crond reload /etc/init.d/assp stop /bin/rm -fv /etc/init.d/assp /bin/rm -Rfv /usr/local/assp /bin/rm -Rfv /usr/local/asspx /bin/rm -Rfv /etc/chkserv.d/assp* For cPanel 11 unregister ASSP…


Storm On Demand Declared Best Cloud Computing Service

Storm On Demand Declared Best Cloud Computing Service by Independent Analyst Storm On Demand more powerful and less expensive than Amazon EC2! LANSING, Mich., June 23, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — On Monday Cloud Computing analyst, www.CloudHarmony.com, completed their fourth round of benchmark testing of Cloud Computing platforms. This round of testing was focused on…


Force inactive user logout

From linuxers.org When you work on different servers from your system, the sessions are scattered over various terminals across different workspaces. Its a common mistake people usually make by leaving one or more of those server sessions open. Such sessions can lead to bad things if they get in hands of someone else. So, instead…


Buying a good domain?

From techhamlet.com These days its really hard to find a good domain name… Most of them were already bought by domain squatters who will demand a huge amount of money to sell them! So, searching for a good and an available domain name will take a quite a lot of time. To solve this problem……


Linux uses around the world

From linuxtree.blogspot.com Many says that Linux is not for general users .I totally disagree with them . In this post i will explain how Linux is used all around the world . I know that Linux is slowly growing and it will take some more years to beat Microsoft windows .Recently i read many blogs…


8 of the Best Online Backup Services for Linux

From junauza.com A remote or online backup service has become quite an important tool for those of us who travel a lot and require some of our files on the cloud for easy access anytime and any place with Internet connection. It can also be useful for users who need to sync some of their…


5 tips for improving Linux security

From blogs.techrepublic.com.com What’s that you say? You don’t need to do anything about security on your Linux box because it’s Linux? Think again. Linux is an operating system that begs to be online, so it wants to be secure. Sure it’s fairly secure out of the box, but NO operating system is 100% secure if…


lessons from porn…

From linuxinsider.com Regardless of your personal feelings toward Internet porn, the sysadmins overseeing adult websites know a thing or two about scripting and scalability. For example, keep your database clean, embrace open source for as many commodity components as possible, and only use the latest technology if it adds actual value to your site, not…