This is the weirdest thing. With an Apache 2.4.10 on Linux Debian 8 (yes, old), and a relatively simple mod_rewrite rule in .htaccess going RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] RewriteRule (.*) https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L,NE] This is really nothing special. Just pushing users to the www host name, if they were lazy typing it. This works almost perfectly, [...]
But why? Cronjobs typically consists of a single utility which we’re pretty confident about. Even if it takes quite some time to complete (updatedb, for example), there’s always a simple story, a single task to complete with a known beginning and end. If the task involves a shell script that calls a few utilities, that [...]
It’s often desired to know how much wall clock time the SQL queries take. As with Perl, there’s more than one way to do it. This is a simple way, which involves overriding DBI’s execute() method, so it measures the time and issues a warn() with basic caller info and the time in milliseconds. The [...]