$ ./configure \
–with-gd=/usr/local \
–with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local \
–with-freetype-dir=/usr/local \
–with-png-dir=/usr/local \
–with-xpm-dir=/usr/local \
–with-iconv-dir=/usr/local \
–enable-freetype \
–enable-jpeg \
–with-zip \
–enable-memory-limit \
–disable-debug \
–with-regex=php \
–with-pic \
–enable-exif \
–enable-filepro \
–enable-ftp \
–with-gettext \
–enable-mbstring \
–enable-sockets \
–enable-sysvsem \
–enable-sysvshm \
–with-mysql=/opt/private/path/mysql \
–with-apxs2=/opt/private/path/apache/bin/apxs \
–with-zlib \
–with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl \
–enable-ftp \
–enable-shared \
–enable-libgcc \
–prefix=/opt/private/path/php

Isn’t that just sick? Sure, I would have had to use lots of USE flags in Gentoo to make that work, but it’s still a lot less typing/headaches, not to mention the fact that it would have gone out and compiled GD and everything else for me.

There’s a very good chance you don’t need both of those .db files, but I simply don’t care. I killed a good hour jerking around with this POS and I don’t care to look it up any further.

prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/ | fmthard -s – /dev/rdsk/

This will copy the partition table from the drive (example c0t0d0s2) to the (example c0t2d0s2). Obviously you can script this to hit all the drives.

find /proc -type f -size +100000000c -ls

This will look at running processes on the system and find each one that has a file descriptor larger than 100M. If you have quite a few (like I do), try chaning the “100000000″ to “500000000″. From there, investigate each process to see which is larger, and whether its handling its files properly. Use `lsof` to see which files that PID has open, and if the files sizes match the file descriptor size of your above command. If not, that process isn’t closing its files properly, and will need restarting (and subsequent complaints to the developers).

export HISTSIZE=1000
export HISTFILESIZE=1000
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

export PS1="u@h: [$(/bin/ls -1 | /usr/bin/wc -l | /bin/sed 's: ::g') files - $(/bin/ls -lah | /bin/grep -m 1 total | /bin/sed 's/total //')] w n$ "


This will show the number of files in the current directory, as well as the size of the files. This was neat, but useless so I took it out and ended up with this:

export PS1='u@h: w n$ '

Now, this was smaller, but it still messed up my line wrap. In fact, it looked as though it was wrapping the line according the size of the prompt. Some searching in the Gentoo forums revealed that Bash wasn’t counting the characters properly, thinking my prompt was part of my command line. A post from someone who actually bothered to investigate further suggested you have to escape your entire prompt with []‘s, but also escape those with ‘s. So, my final prompt is this, which works wonderfully:

export PS1='[u@h: w n$] '

du -h –max-depth=1

This will spit out, in human readable format, the size of each of the directories in the current directory, limiting the output to one directory. Try it to see what I mean.

I got a lot of help from this page, which explains some of what I’ve done below. Feel free to use this and modify it to suit your needs. I assume no responsibility if it doesn’t work for you.

#!/bin/bash

# ———————————————————————-
# Creating rsync backups, then making daily copies of those backups
# ———————————————————————-
unset PATH

ID=/bin/id;
CP=/bin/cp;
MV=/bin/mv;
RM=/bin/rm;
RSYNC=/usr/bin/rsync;
BZIP=/bin/bzip2;
TAR=/bin/tar;

if [ ! $2 ] ; then
echo “Usage: `/bin/basename $0` SOURCE NAME_SET”
exit 1
fi

SOURCE=$1
NAME=$2
DEST=/root/temp/

# make sure we’re running as root
if (( `$ID -u` != 0 )); then { $ECHO “Sorry, must be root. Exiting…”; exit; } fi

# Step 1, rotate older backups, deleting the 6th backup, as its too old to care about
if [ -e ${DEST}/${NAME}.6.tar.bz2 ] ; then
$RM ${DEST}/${NAME}.6.tar.bz2
fi

if [ -e ${DEST}/${NAME}.5.tar.bz2 ] ; then
$MV ${DEST}/${NAME}.5.tar.bz2 ${DEST}/${NAME}.6.tar.bz2
fi

if [ -e ${DEST}/${NAME}.4.tar.bz2 ] ; then
$MV ${DEST}/${NAME}.4.tar.bz2 ${DEST}/${NAME}.5.tar.bz2
fi

if [ -e ${DEST}/${NAME}.3.tar.bz2 ] ; then
$MV ${DEST}/${NAME}.3.tar.bz2 ${DEST}/${NAME}.4.tar.bz2
fi

if [ -e ${DEST}/${NAME}.2.tar.bz2 ] ; then
$MV ${DEST}/${NAME}.2.tar.bz2 ${DEST}/${NAME}.3.tar.bz2
fi

if [ -e ${DEST}/${NAME}.1.tar.bz2 ] ; then
$MV ${DEST}/${NAME}.1.tar.bz2 ${DEST}/${NAME}.2.tar.bz2
fi

# This one is different. To save a little stress on the system being backed up,
# make a copy (cp -a) of the last ${NAME}, instead of moving it. This will allow
# rsync to only write the changes in the filesystem, rather than everything.
# Also, bzip2 the previous ${NAME} to save drive space.
if [ -d ${DEST}/${NAME}.0/ ] ; then
$CP -a ${DEST}/${NAME}.0/ ${DEST}/${NAME}.1/
if ( `$TAR cjf ${DEST}/${NAME}.1.tar.bz2 ${DEST}/${NAME}.1/` ); then { $RM -r ${DEST}/${NAME}.1/; } fi
fi

# Step 2, make a new backup, and call it ${NAME}.0/

$RSYNC –delete -avz ${SOURCE} ${DEST}/${NAME}.0/