[CentOS] OpenVZ – container based virtualization quick guide. Part 1 of 2

This quick guide will walk you through setting up OpenVZ on CentOS. I followed these steps on CentOS release 5.5 x64 version. If you want more detail on install via different methods and/or have different flavor of CentOS and run into an issue, you can follow instructions provided by OpenVZ site. Once [...]

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[Bash] Performing array intersection with Bash

I am currently working on a project to deploy new website builds to a
small number of servers. I needed something simple and reliable that could
be built in a very short period of time. I decided to whip something up in
bash with the intent of refining it in Python later.
As I began to write [...]

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How do you print number of files for each folder in a directory [Linux]

I have been annoyed by the fact that I couldn’t easily print file count for all of the folders in certain directory.  Most of the time I just want to see what space each folder is using (du -hs *) but there are times when I need to know how many files are in each [...]

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PHP: Curl being slow from php call on CentOS 5.4

I ran into an issue where curl request run within few ms from command line but same url fetch was taking over 10 secs. After doing some debugging and research it turned out that call to check (getaddr ipv6 was timing out. Obviously you can do multiple things to fix this (including enabling [...]

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sshfs: How do you install sshfs and fuse? [CentOS/Linux/Redhat]

One may wonder what is sshfs and why would you want it?  Well simply put, sshfs allows you to mount another server’s filesystem into a folder on your local system which in the background is doing ssh commands and transfers.  As a mounted folder, you are able to move about and copy files back and [...]

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