Upstart
is a ridiculously easy way to turn your scripts into daemons. Take this python script:
/home/myuser/ez_daemon.py
:
exec
python
/home/myuser/ez_daemon.py
And that’s it! <ul> <li>
sudo start ez_daemon
</li> <li>
sudo tail -f /var/log/upstart/ez_daemon.log
</li> <li>
sudo stop ez_daemon …
Without patching, the
rsync
utility lacks support to detect when a file was renamed/moved across multiple directories inside the synced tree. There is a
––fuzzy
option to save bandwidth by building upon similar files on the target side, but only …
Recently we noticed some intermittent slow downs with our Gondola sites and wanted to track down the source of the issue. Our sites are all Django projects served by Apache/mod_wsgi behind an Nginx frontend proxy. Nginx’s upstream module makes the …
I really like
supervisord
for long-running process management. It is Python, so it is easy to install and it is easy to script with tools like
Fabric
. Lately I’ve been deploying smaller Django/WSGI sites with
Green Unicorn
behind Nginx …
Here’s one I struggled with a bit while upgrading lincolnloop.com yesterday.
Scenario:
You need to take your site offline and want to redirect all its traffic to a “down for maintenance” page. For search engine friendliness, that page should return …