January 2005

job control

January 21, 2005

Some tips on job control from Peter Van Buren, Stein Lab system admin: Background: I had asked Peter about how to keep jobs running even when a shell exits. Backgrounding a process is not always sufficient. Peter writes: It’s probably your shell exiting that is sending signals to your jobs. If you are running bash [...]

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Building GD.pm and libgd

January 14, 2005

Subject: Building libgd and GD.pm on Mac OS X.3 Prerequisites: Apple X11 installed Look, about a billion people have asked me how to build gd and libgd and Mac OS X. It really isn’t that difficult\. Here is how to do it. Please note that there may be a newer version of libgd by this [...]

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Apache mod_rewrite tutorial

January 11, 2005

Here’s an interesting article outlining the use of Apache’s mod_rewrite. In particular, it has an extensive examples section, including one covering round robin DNS based load balancing.

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