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Delete @eaDIR folders

These are index folders, the presence of which can be quite annoying. To locate them find . -type d -name "@eaDir" if you’re feeling ok about automatically deleting them then: find . -type d -name "@eaDir" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf On a Synology NAS you can disable feature as follows synoservice …

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Is your nfs working

I use nfs quite a lot. It allows local access to remote files i.e. the remote folder is mounted locally so you can access the remote files locally. Often overlooked, make sure the proper NFS RPC-based services are enabled for portmap (not required for nfs4). Issue the following command as root: …

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Support Net Neutrality

Internet neutrality is a big deal. It enables you, or anyone else, to complete at a true level playing field with large corporations. Please do support Net neutrality Early last year Mark Zuckerberg had pushed to break net neutrality in India. It failed! Read here more about Facebook’s biggest …

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PHP 5.6 with Nginx on AWS

Look whether the version you like is available. For a producion server you may not want to install the very latest. yum search php56 Here I have gone for php56 i.e. php-5.6 as I needed it for the latest mediawiki I was looking to install for my documentation. sudo service php-fpm stop sudo yum …

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cron errors only

If you run a cron job and you would like to only see the errors reported use cronic on Centos or chrronic on Ubuntu. The latter comes with the package moreutils apt-get install moreutils

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