“Integration points are the number-one killer of systems” – Release It!, Michael Nygard Last week I had two different web systems fail in a similar way. One was a single box running two busy WordPress sites, another was a largish multi-tier publishing cluster. Both dropped off air because they didn’t handle the failure of a [...]
FreeBSD, gettext, libintl and bash
Monday, 25. 10. 2010 – Category: sw
Login surprise! Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p4 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Jul 12 20:22:27 UTC 2010 /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object “libintl.so.8″ not found, required by “bash” $ What’s happened here is that gettext (which provides libintl.so) has been upgraded without [...]
Obviously cron jobs are abundantly useful for so many things, all the way from basic housekeeping up to big application functionality. They’re also the source of plenty of flail. What do I mean? They are neither code nor data, so often get overlooked, or shonkily installed, by application deployment tools They run with a minimal [...]
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