This script run from cron will keep 7 days of backups in S3 overwriting as needed. Your cron entry will look like 22 18 * * * /path/to/the/script/backup.sh #!/bin/bash cd `dirname $0` DIR_ROOT=/var/www WEB_DIRS=`ls -1 $DIR_ROOT` DAY=`date +%a`...
Shrinking an Amazon Linux Root Volume – Work-a-round
Background: Created an EC2 instance with a 40GB hard drive, realized that I wouldn't need that size and seeing that the EBS pricing for my region is $0.12 per GB-month of provisioned storage I was paying for 32GB of unneeded space. So I thought to myself I should...
Postbooks Updater won’t run on Fedora 26 work-a-round
Fedora 26 comes with Postbooks 4.10.1 (Fedora 25 had 4.10.0) so you need to upgrade your Postbooks database when you move to F26. But the Updater application errors out with missing libraries. So the answer is to run it on Ubuntu 14.04 as a Virtual Box Guest Other...
Lets Encrypt Apache Renew Fails When Using ProxyPass
These Apache Proxy rules will send all traffic to the backend host Which causes letencrypt to fail when trying to renew the SSL Cert on the Proxy Host because the...
Just discovered the Elegant Themes — Visual Builder
So I have been using the Divi Template from Elegant Themes and really have paid no attention for a long time. But just today I was looking at the Youtube and discovered the Visual Builder. To describe it I would say it gives you Squarespace style inline editing within...
I have moved to Amazon Web Services
So tonight I moved my websites to AWS. I logged into AWS and created all my DNS zones and records in Route 53 and then logged into multiple DNS registrars they were registered with and pointed them to Route 53 DNS servers. I chose the default Amazon Linux AMI and then...
I wanted a visible paragraph mark and after invoking ‘CTRL + SHIFT + u + b6’ my dreams were fulfilled
I have just installed Fedora 26. I have a PDF that contains a ¶ visible paragraph mark but when I copy it into a Libre Office Writer document an 8 appears. So I have to replace the incorrect 8 with a ¶ visible paragraph character To do this in LibreOffice you click...
seLinux practices the silent treatment – If you would only just tell me what’s wrong I would fix it
I have a html form that posts to a Perl CGI script. The script then loops and creates a CSV that is then piped to glabels-3-batch to create a PDF file of labels which lpr then sends to a printer. I found if I select to create 26 labels the script worked but above 26 I...
Fedora 25 Kernel Upgrade Breaks MacBook Pro WiFi
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/71227/how-to-keep-fedora-22-updates-from-breaking-broadcom-bcm4312-wireless/ The fix is to boot to the latest kernel and run
glabels-3-batch on Fedora 25 segfault
The default glabels-3.4.x install on Fedora 25 through 29 segfaults when using the glabels-3-batch command. The following command fails: glabels-3-batch -o output.pdf -i crossdock-data.csv 150x200-crossdock-labels.glabels I found compiling from source with defaults...
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