October

Chmod a+x

Submitted by User ProfileRob on 12:14am, Tuesday, 2006-10-24

Just a quick note for subversion. I was working on a shell script and my first check-in was from the Windows machine I'm working on. My target is the Bash shell in Linux though. When I checked the file out on the target, I had to do a chmod a+x myscript.sh every time I checked out. A little googling and I found that Subversion knows about the executable attribute. I don't know how exactly it interprets the attribute internally, but what worked for me was setting the svn:executable property for the file in the working directory. I don't know how to do this with the command-line client, but in Tortoise SVN it was pretty easy. On my Windows machine I right-clicked the file, picked "Properties" and selected the "Subversion" tab.

Browsing Code with Google Code Search

Submitted by User ProfileRob on 6:09pm, Thursday, 2006-10-12
There's been a lot of talk of all the hacks & odd searches you can do on Google Code Search. Interesting, amusing and maybe a little scary. All of it clever. Clever is the first pass at a new tool, let's get on to the boring stuff! (Why does that interest me so much?) I've wanted more times than I can count to tell Google that I mean to search for source. It's not as if you can add the name of the language - "C" or "C++" - to a normal search query and get anything meaningful. The obvious and canonical use of a tool like this is to find an example of code that does what you're trying to do. The simplest thing would be examples of a particular function or class in use. Maybe you want to see a JTable instantiated and used. Maybe you need to know more about using the PCMCIA bus in Windows drivers. Okay, that search doesn't work so well for closed source...

Running an SSH Server on Multiple Ports

Submitted by User ProfileRob on 7:50pm, Wednesday, 2006-10-11

There are a lot of reasons you could need to run sshd (the ssh server) on a port other than the standard port 22. These days the Internet is pretty convoluted. Sometimes you have too many hack attempts on port 22, sometimes you're trying to work through a restrictive or oppressive proxy/firewall. I moved my sshd to a high port number on one server for the first reason.