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Because Subversion does not have explicit tags, and everything in the repository is just another folder or file (and thus editable), we sometimes have the need to secure or force our repository layout. Creating a tag is just making a copy of the trunk (or any branch) so you have a snapshot of how the [...]

I know and use Subversion properties (and the keyword substitution) for quite a while now, but never used all of them and mostly stayed with the Id keyword. This results in a substituted string like this: Because my colleague Arno and myself do a lot of server maintenance and configuration, we ended up maintaining a [...]

Keeping files and directories in the repository is one of the key principles of Subversion, so once you’ve committed something, it’s there for ever. You can delete files, but they still exist somewhere in the repository, so you can go back in time. But there is always that time where you’ve (accidentally) committed a password [...]

Where I work, we have a lot of servers to maintain, and only 2 server admins (me and my colleague). We use Nagios to keep us informed about the server status and Logwatch to analyze to server logs on a daily basis. We have per server a lot of subdomains/vhosts and these virtual hosts all [...]

In the previous post I was terribly wrong about the router type. I was talking about a Linksys (by Cisco). My brother hooked me up with an ‘old’ WRT54GL he had laying in the basement. The cool thing about these routers is that they have built-in DynDNS support. (If you don’t know what it is, [...]

A month ago I moved to my new house (yay) and I’d promised Joggink I would set up a home server we could use to play with. Several weeks later, I’ve managed (as in: finally had time, rather than: it was complex) to do a complete install of CentOS on our ‘server’. No I’m waiting [...]