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We have git repo at github (  and would like to move onto some our corporate box inside our network, for example on internal.bokov.net. This repository is shared for group of developers and all who have ssh access onto internal.bokov.net shall have right to commits onto git repository. So first of all prepare place for git repo at new hosting :

ssh user@internal.bokov.net
cd var
mkdir git_repo
chmod 777 git_repo
cd git_repo
mkdir my_project
cd my_project
git init --bare --shared=all
cd objects
chmod g+ws *


Next clone existing repo and change its settings to point onto internal.bokov.net

git clone --bare git@github.com:bokov/github_project.git
git remote add -t master -m master origin ssh://internal.bokov.net/var/git_repo/my_project/
git push origin master


to start work with new repo just use

git clone ssh://internal.bokov.net/var/git_repo/my_project/


have fun.

[root@my-box ~]# useradd -g users -u 560 tuser
[root@my-box ~]# passwd tuser

When I tried to restart mysql
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart
it failed with
* Stopping MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ]
* Starting MySQL database server mysqld [fail]

Continue reading ‘Quick fix problem with mySQL starting on Ubuntu 9.10’ »

Short how-to about configuring Ubuntu to work with EC2 API

Continue reading ‘Configuring Ubuntu ( 9.10 ) to work with Amazon EC2’ »

Update in Amazon Web Services:

• Recursively add files and foldes into CVS

find . -type d -print | grep -v CVS | xargs -n1 cvs add

• Delete “.svn” files from current folder

find . -type f  -exec echo \"{}\" \;  | grep ".svn" | xargs rm

Some Sony Vaio owners ( my own is VGN-FZ31ER ) may have MAC is in deep sleep! problems – WiFI doesn’t work under Ubuntu because WLAN driver goes into forever sleep ( some bug in power safe logic I suppose ). This bug can be fixed by adding “noacpi” parametrs to Ubuntu boot command line.

On one of my apache I use suexec to run some tasks – some weeks before I configure all it and all stuff works well, but some days later when I try to run my cgi-perl script I found I have “500 Internal error”. I change nothing in apache config or in my scripts – I just install fresh updates for ubuntu. In apache’s error log I’ve got :

It’s strange, but anyway it doesn’t works. I spent some time trying to fix it ( some guys recommend to rebuilt suexec – but it’s not a simplest way to fix this problem ) – in my case it was fixed by changing owner of my suexec. I check out current properties :
ls -la /usr/lib/apache2/suexec
-rwsr-xr– 1 root www-data 18872 2009-07-10 18:40 /usr/lib/apache2/suexec
and change them :

And don’t forget to restart :

ps. by the way suexec’s id’s are :

Here’s some steps which I frequently use to configure Ubuntu to work as EC2 manager
Continue reading ‘Quick steps to configure Ubuntu for with EC2 API’ »

For those who those who install skype under Ubuntu and get “Error: Wrong architecture ‘i386′” after download and run skype-debian package from skype.com – check out this usefull bash stuff ( just copy-paste it in terminal window ):
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs lib32asound2 libasound2-plugins; wget -N http://bokov.net/packages/ubuntu/getlibs-all.deb; wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu-amd64; sudo dpkg -i skype-install.deb; sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb; sudo getlibs -p libqtcore4 libqtgui4 bluez-alsa