I’m as guilty as anyone of treating cron as if it’s “just a shell”, and it finally bit me today. I had a quick-n-dirty Postgres backup command that worked wonderfully from the command line: /usr/local/postgres/bin/pg_dumpall -U pgadmin | gzip -9 > \ /usr/local/db/backups/pgsql/pgdump.`/bin/date +”%Y%m%d-%H%M%S”`.gz But when I put this into my crontab, I started getting…
Month: April 2007
Why Does SourceForge Hate Its Users?
SourceForge has been a lumbering, slow, clumsy, ugly site for a long time. So-called “improvements” over the past couple of *years* have done as much to hurt performance of the site as it has to make it prettier and (debatably) easy to navigate. In reality, it seems that most of the changes made to SourceForge…
*STILL* No Multiple Inheritance in PHP!
This is maddening. There have been requests for multiple inheritance in PHP since I started using it in mid 1999. Of course, in mid-1999, I didn’t really care. There wasn’t much written in PHP that was any good, so I was writing little scripts of glue code to tie pieces of HTML together and the…
Quick CVS Cheat Sheet
Actually, I’d love to say that I’ve moved completely to using git instead of CVS, but the truth of the matter is that, for a recent project where I’m just trying to consolidate a whole bunch of admin scripts, organize them under one (managed) roof, and (most importantly) get a bunch of admins on board…
I’m Now A FiOS Customer
Some people will be shocked to hear that I’m now a FiOS customer, especially if they’ve read a previous post I made over a year ago now about how FiOS looked like the biggest scam ever. Well, I’m not sure I changed my mind per se, but a number of realizations have been made over…