Repair MongoDB after an unclean shutdown
This was on an Ubuntu 14.04 VM: vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~$ sudo -u mongodb mongod --repair --dbpath /var/lib/mongodb
Category: Linux
Making it easy to try DTrace4Linux
DTrace4Linux is an attempt (from UK developer Paul Fox, also known for his CRiSP editor) to bring the power of DTrace to Linux. It's a kernel module (No kernel recompilation required! Yay!) and userland tools. I did a bit of...
DTrace for Linux
I wanted to draw attention to the excellent work that Paul Fox has been doing in porting DTrace to Linux. And he recently created a GitHub repo for it, so it's that much easier to contribute now. If you have Linux kernel...
Running Dropbox on DreamHost
As promised and after a nudge from Bruce, here's how I was able to get the Dropbox Linux CLI software running on a DreamHost VPS server. This isn't super hard but it wasn't a trivial install, because the Dropbox software is...
Making du report useful output for comparing across systems
You have to be a little careful using the du command to compare output across systems. For example, a few weeks ago I backed up a bunch of files from our MacBook Pro to our NAS and then was running du commands to verify that...
Ubuntu repository problem resolved
The previously mentioned Ubuntu repository problem seems to have resolved itself. I am finally able to upgrade my Samba packages.
Ubuntu mirror troubles
This has been happening all day every time I attempt to do apt-get dist-upgrade: The following packages will be upgraded: libsmbclient samba samba-common smbclient smbfs 5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0...