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Archives for November 2017

Abandon Linux. Move to FreeBSD or Illumos.

November 19, 2017 by Albert Valbuena

If you use GNU/Linux and you are only on opensource, you may be doing it wrong. Here's why. Is your company based on opensource based software only? Do you have a bunch of developers hitting some kind of server you have installed for them to "do their thing"? Being it for economical reasons (remember to donate), being it for philosophycal ones, you may have skipped good … [Read more...]

What is Expect?

November 19, 2017 by Albert Valbuena

Expect is a handy scripting tool for task automation. You may have never heard of it. I heard about many scripting things before. But one day I needed something simple but didn’t know how to proceed, what would be a good tool for my purpose. The task was simple. Exporting a website content from a managed hosting to a VPS (virtual private server) onto another company in another … [Read more...]

How to export a MySQL database.

November 17, 2017 by Albert Valbuena

You are your website editor, owner and now administrator. You want control over the whole process and you are migrating from a managed site. Or you are a versed user on unix-like environments and you are just willing to export your database. This is a simple post on how to export a MySQL database. If you find the articles in Adminbyaccident.com useful to you, please consider … [Read more...]

How to update FreeBSD using beadm

November 17, 2017 by Albert Valbuena

Beadm is a tool which provides a wonderful and distinctive functionality on Solaris, OpenIndiana and FreeBSD. It relies on the ZFS filesystem allowing to take a filesystem snapshot. That can be used to manage the so called boot environments which provide a great way to secure updates, even when everything goes down the tubes. Hence the name beadm (boot environment … [Read more...]

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