If you every need to install Git on a server but don’t have root access, follow the below steps to install Git in your home directory

check that you can run gcc – if you get errors then you got to figure something else out

gcc --version

prep your home folder

mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src

make the ~/opt directory – this is where we will install git into

mkdir ~/opt

Get the git source from google code 1.7.8.4 is the latest at the moment and untar

wget http://git-core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.8.4.tar.gz
tar -xvzf git-1.7.8.4.tar.gz
cd git-1.7.8.4

run ./configure and tell it to use ~/opt

./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt

now do the install

make install

check git is happy

~/opt/bin/git --version

If it prints out ‘git version 1.7.8.4’ then its all good to go – git is now installed in your home folder

For the life of me I can't figure out how to flip/rotate a video in linux using any GUI apps

sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds false

gksudo gedit /etc/gdm/custom.conf 

SoundOnLogin=false

How to install:

Top reasons to use ack instead of grep.

• It's blazingly fast because it only searches the stuff you want searched.
• ack is pure Perl, so it runs on Windows just fine.
• The standalone version uses no non-standard modules, so you can put it in your ~/bin without fear.
• Searches recursively through directories by default, while ignoring .svn, CVS and other VCS directories.
  • Which would you rather type?
  • $ grep pattern $(find . -type f | grep -v '\.svn')
  • $ ack pattern
• ack ignores most of the crap you don't want to search
  
  • VCS directories
  • blib, the Perl build directory
  • backup files like foo~ and #foo#
  • binary files, core dumps, etc
• Ignoring .svn directories means that ack is faster than grep for searching through trees
• Lets you specify file types to search, as in --perl or --nohtml
  
  • Which would you rather type?
  • $ grep pattern $(find . -name '*.pl' -or -name '*.pm' -or -name '*.pod' | grep -v .svn)
  • $ ack --perl pattern
  • Note that ack's --perl also checks the shebang lines of files without suffixes, which the find command will not
• File-filtering capabilities usable without searching with ack -f. This lets you create lists of files of a given type
  
  • $ ack -f --perl > all-perl-files
• Color highlighting of search results

If you have to admin Aleph from ExLibris you may be wondering why there is minimal tools to help you make sure its all running ok

Below is a simple shell script that checks various 'ue_' process (PC server, publishing, etc..) and emails if they are down

Add this to your crontab to run each 15 minutes or so

Note:
- replace the email address with your email address
- replace LIB with your 3 character library code
- add/remove ue_ sections as you need

#!/bin/bash

SUBJECT='Aleph: alert'
TO='youremailaddress@you.com'

if [[ $ps =~ "ue_21_a_LIB30" ]]
then
        echo LIB30 ue_21 all OK
else
        message="LIB30 ue_21 is not running
"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "ue_21_a_LIB01" ]]
then
        echo LIB01 ue_21 all OK
else
        message="${message}
LIB01 ue_21 is not running"
fi


if [[ $ps =~ "ue_08_a_LIB01" ]]
then
        echo LIB01 ue_08 all OK
else
        message="${message}
LIB01 ue_08 is not running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "ue_08_a_LIB10" ]]
then
        echo LIB10 ue_08  all OK
else
        message="${message}
LIB10 ue_08 is not running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "ue_06_a_LIB50" ]]
then
        echo LIB50 ue_06  all OK
else
        message="${message}
LIB50 ue_06 is not running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "-d_/exlibris/aleph/u20_1/alephe/apache" ]]
then
        echo Apache looks OK
else
        message="${message}
Apache doesn't look to be running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "-f_/exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/pc_server" ]]
then
        echo PC_Server looks  all OK
else
        message="${message}
PC_Server doen't look to be running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "-f_/exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/www_server" ]]
then
        echo www_server looks all OK
else
        message="${message}
wwww_server doens't look to be running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "-f_/exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/sip2_server" ]]
then
        echo SIP2 looks OK
else
        message="${message}
SIP2 doesn't look to be running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "-f_/exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/oclc_server" ]]
then
        echo OCLC server looks OK
else
        message="${message}
OCLC server doesn't look to be running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "-f_/exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/ncip_server" ]]
then
        echo NCIP server looks OK
else
        message="${message}
NCIP server doesn't look to be running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "-f_/exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/sru_server" ]]
then
        echo SRU server looks OK
else
        message="${message}
SRU server doesn't look to be running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "-f_/exlibris/aleph/a20_1/aleph/proc/z39_server" ]]
then
        echo Z39 server looks OK
else
        message="${message}
Z39 server doesn't look to be running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "ue_01_a_LIB01.a20_1" ]]
then
        echo LIB01 indexing looks OK
else
        message="${message}
LIB01 indexing doesn't look to be running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "ue_01_a_LIB10.a20_1" ]]
then
        echo LIB10 indexing looks OK
else
        message="${message}
LIB10 indexing doesn't look to be running"
fi

if [[ $ps =~ "ue_01_a_LIB30.a20_1" ]]
then
        echo LIB30 indexing looks OK
else
        message="${message}
LIB30 indexing doesn't look to be running"
fi

if [[ -n $message ]]
then
        echo $message
        /bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO" <<EOM
        $message
EOM
else
        echo "No email needs to be sent - all working OK"
fi