I encountered a problem last week with cron. crond was running but the jobs seems to not work. After debugging the crontab, I saw that on one job, the username was missing.
Nothing was written in the logs to say that there was a problem.
To avoid future problems, I wrote an alert for monit.
In my crontab, [...]

As read in Diamond Notes, Amazon is moving into CDN market with CloudFront.
Some Content Delivery Network providers

Akamaï

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BitGravity

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EdgeCast Networks

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Limelight Network

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Panther Express

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If you need to install your gems without extra documentation, use flags –no-rdoc and –no-ri
Example:
$ gem install –no-rdoc –no-ri rails

When adding new virtual hosts in your nginx configuration file, you can experience this error message:
# nginx -t
2008/11/13 09:37:03 [emerg] 12299#0: could not build the server_names_hash, you should increase server_names_hash_bucket_size: 32
2008/11/13 09:37:03 [emerg] 12299#0: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
server_names_hash_bucket_size controls the maximum length of a virtual host entry (ie the length of the domain [...]

Sun JRE is available in the non-free repository. You need to update your repositories configuration file (/etc/apt/sources.list).
Add the following line:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
Update apt with apt-get update command and you’re ready to install the JRE.
$ apt-get install sun-java5-jre
Check your java binary:
$ java -version
java version “1.5.0_14″
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_14-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) [...]