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How-to locally Disable Python CGI scripts.

Since the beginning of this blog, my collection of python scripts were not readable. This was due to the fact that files with .py extension are seen by the apache web server as CGI scripts. To tell apache that python files can be published as-is, put a .htaccess beside your …
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Script to Automate FTP site Backup.

Based on my yesterday experimentations, I’ve code today a little script to automate the backup of several websites of mine. This script use lftp to mirror file from a remote host to your local machine. Then it create a bzip2 archive. You can download the script here. To make …
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Bad FTP mirrors with fmirror or wget? Use lftp!

Today I’ve found that my websites were not backed up as expected. I was using fmirror (v0.8.4) to get a copy from my host provider to my backup machine. Here is the command line I was using: $ fmirror -kRS -u kevin -p pass -s ftp.website.com …
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Rugg 0.2.1 RPM package for Mandriva 2006.0

I’ve build a RPM package of Rugg for Mandriva 2006. I also added a source-rpm repository for Mandriva 2006.0 on this site. Rugg describe itself as a “Flexible file system and hard drive crash testing”. Take a look on the official project website for details: Rugg Project website …
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