Set up Dropbox on a GUI-less Linux server
Last week’s techmail was Set up Dropbox on a GUI-less Linux server which takes you through the necessary steps of setting up Dropbox on a GUI-less Linux box. I use Dropbox here for keeping certain files in sync between systems, but I also am connected to a secondary Dropbox to act as a remote backup(…)
runit and supervised services on RHEL/CentOS 5
I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, but I maintain a repository of packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (arguably these could/should be in EPEL but I’ve not had time to get into the Fedora side of things as of yet… someone will beat me with a wet noodle, no doubt). It’s a very small(…)
How does Ubuntu’s Upstart system initialization compare with runit?
This week’s TechMail is How does Ubuntu’s Upstart system initialization compare with runit? which looks at the upstart system vs runit. I *really* like runit; so much in fact that with Annvix I rewrote the entire init system to take as much advantage of runit as possible and as a result ended up with extremely(…)
Log Linux services with runit
Last week’s Techmail is Log Linux services with runit (although I’m pretty sure that’s not the original title I submitted). Anyways, it discusses logging various services running under runit using svlogd, so you can completely separate services from each other. Syslog is cool, but too much stuff gets crammed in together. For most services, you(…)