Posts Tagged “quickies”
VirtualBox, Gentoo and serial consoles
by Kenneth Kalmer on September 30, 2009
More as a reminder to myself for when I need this again, but I’m sure everyone needs this at least once. Having screwed up my kernel configs for my VirtualBox Gentoo image, I needed a serial console to catch the (…)
Pluck out an old revision of a file with git show
by Kenneth Kalmer on March 20, 2009
I was busy merging work back and forth between topic branches today and by accident miss-merged a 700-line spec. Everything else was fine (or so I hope) except this one file. I couldn’t use git revert, since that would mean (…)
Clear the log files of all your rails projects
by Kenneth Kalmer on November 21, 2008
I hit a barrier last night where my virtual machine I use for Rails development ran out of space. I quickly checked around and saw my current Rails project had 800MB in log files (thanks autospec). So I decided to (…)
Postfix log grep gist
by Kenneth Kalmer on October 23, 2008
Just a quickie to tell you about my (first) latest gist: http://gist.github.com/19021 Basically search through the postfix maillog for a pattern, extract the postfix message id from each matched line, and then search through the log file for each corresponding (…)
