Justin Silver Blog

Check For WordPress Plugin Updates

If you write and contribute plugins to the WordPress Repository then you might be interested in having your plugin be aware of updates you have made available – an admin notice or something similar....

Change Interval in Munin With Existing RRD Data

The default settings for Munin will result in RRD files containing 5 minute intervals of data, or 300 seconds as it is stored internally. It is possible to change this interval by changing /etc/cron.d/munin....

Munin mysql_ suggest Cache::Cache Error

I was trying to set up the newer mysql_ plugin for Munin, but got the following error when using the “suggest” argument to determine how to link the file. The “fix” was to install...

Production Cron Tasks

Useful if you run scheduled tasks in production and want to leverage cron, via Orchestrate.io. The Gist shell script for cron_helper.sh is below. Production Cron Tasks was last modified April 9th, 2016 by Justin...

Service Process Start, Service Start Process

I may be slightly dyslexic as I am constantly typing service start nginx or service restart mysqld when interacting with services controlled via init.d. Rather than making myself constantly retype it I created a...

GoDaddy SSL Certificates on NGINX

To properly install a GoDaddy SSL certificate on an NGINX install, you will need to include the gd_intermediate.crt and gd_bundle.crt the SSL certificate file for your server. The location of this file can be...