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2011

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Terminal / Cron Environment differences

I have been going through some logs for my Flexget instance and saw that I was getting a number of these messages coming up:

Your cron environment has different filesystem encoding (ANSI_X3.4-1968) 
compared to your terminal environment (UTF-8).

Oh dear, well sure enough, it is different but there is a really easy way to sort it:

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TVMover 0.1 – (Alpha)

Over the next few days (or probably weeks) I am going to make a HOW-TO on a super set-up that I have configured on my Ubuntu headless home media server. If you would like to read a little bit more about what the core parts to this are and get a copy of the code then…

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Time to tee off

This is as much for my benefit as anyone elses but someone else may find it useful as well. It has come in hand for me many times at work and at play. The reason for using it is if you are running a command or a script that dumps a load of stuff to the terminal. You may wish to keep this output for debugging purposed later or you may be using PuTTy and there is so much output that it gets pushed out the measly buffer. Well no longer, the “tee” command is a really good way of piping everything to a file.

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How open are you? – Take 2

A long time ago I did a small post called “How open are you?” – you can find it here. This was for an old server which has long since died and been recycled. I thought that it was about time that I revisited this therefore and post an update.

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Recover a MySQL database from an old Ubuntu 10.04 box

One of my boxes died the other day (the one which hosts this actually) and I needed to recover the mysql database from it and move it from the old one to the new one. I didn't know whether or not it was possible and if it was, how easy it would be to do. As it turns out, it is pretty easy and I'll share with you know how I did it.

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Something neat

I haven't posted anything for a long, long time so I thought that I would just post something very quickly. A link to something very cool: puddletag. puddletag is an audio tag editor (primarily created) for GNU/Linux similar to the Windows program, Mp3tag. Unlike most taggers for GNU/Linux, it uses a spreadsheet-like layout so that all the tags you want to edit by hand are visible and easily editable.