Here’s a useful little tip I picked up this week courtesy of this great thread on reddit: the ‘disown’ shell builtin. Here are the details from the bash man page: disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec ...] Without options, each jobspec is removed from the table of active jobs. If jobspec is not present, and neither -a [...]
Continue Reading →One of the recent additions we’ve had at GeekISP is mod_xsendfile support in Apache. This module allows any Apache-based server-side language (e.g. PHP, any CGI program, etc) provide fine grained control and app logic over static files while still allowing Apache to do what it does best – serve static files quickly and efficiently. First, [...]
Continue Reading →It’s been a few months since our last round of OpenBSD upgrades, and one or two servers are slightly overdue. For starters, the shell/ftp server login.geekisp.com is still on OpenBSD 4.7, so getting that up to 5.0 is at the top of the list. As always with OpenBSD upgrades, I expect things to go extremely [...]
Continue Reading →All I can say is – better late than never. Having operated GeekISP now for almost 9 years to the day, I’m a little late on the tech-blog front. But here we are, and as I said … better late than never. So what is this blog about? Simple – news and goings-on at GeekISP, [...]
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