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sysstat – sar Invalid system activity file: /var/log/sysstat/sa19

After a recent upgrade (not sure which) the sar command stopped working, with the error output: The saXX can be any number, and relates to the log file – which for some reason is corrupt/missing/unreadable. In my case it seems to exist, but doesn’t function. I’ve found the best remedy to this to be purging […]

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How To Install The Latest APC 3.1.9 On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS & W3 Total Cache Optimization

Yah another geeky post – woohoo! Anyway, when you are running high traffic WordPress sites – it’s very common to use W3 Total Cache (known as w3tc usually). And with this you need some kind of in memory cache to store objects/db queries etc – the choice for a single server setup is generally APC […]

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Running Unattended/Automatic Security Updates on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid

I thought I may as well share/dump some of the tech stuff I learn on here because a) A lot of the stuff I find on Google is complete crap and b) If I forget how to do it I can just search my own blog (w00t) c) It might be useful to someone else. […]

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