I got the following error when I was trying to modify my existing installation of Apache. Only thing I changed was to add –with-expires to my configure. Here is the error:
libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/local/src/httpd-2.2.14/srclib/apr-util/xml/expat/lib/libexpat.la’ or unhandled argument `/usr/local/src/httpd-2.2.14/srclib/apr-util/xml/expat/lib/libexpat.la’
I was able to fix this error by adding: –with-expat=builtin
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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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This is a quick post to show how one can issue commands to telnet session from a shell script or command line with out going into interactive mode. I use this to get stats from our memcache servers or issue a flush_all via telnet from a script/cron.
So without further delay, following command will telnet [...]

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