// description of your code here

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'monty'@'localhost'
    ->     IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass' WITH GRANT OPTION;

// description of your code here

mysql -h localhost -u root
mysql> USE mysql;
mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('root-pwd') WHERE user='root';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> EXIT

In Redhat EL WS 4 (which has Samba pre-installed and running)

become superuser then create a device to mount to

mkdir /mount/<linx_share>

Add an entry to the /etc/hosts for the windows box, with its IP and a hostname

192.168.80.1 DL1

Then create the share in the windows box (in Windows, using normal file sharing.
We'll call it win_share

Then mount the device in Linux

mount -t smbfs ///win_share /mnt/linx_share

eg.

mount -t smbfs //DL1/sshare /mnt/share

Linux should ask for a password (windows password). This assumes that the username between linux and the windows boxes are the same!

After that, you should be able to view the win_share directly from linux and have access to all its files.

Short version:
Is there any problem with serving a rails app from multiple domain names by simply creating an Alias Server and adding another $HTTP["host"] entry to your rails/lighttpd conf file (in ~/etc/lighttpd/vhosts.d/APPNAME.conf)?

Long version:
Here's the deal:
on the default virtual server created when you purchase a shared webhosting plan (USERNAME.textdrive.com) I've got a rails app installed and running off of fcgi.

Here's the .conf file for my particular rails app that gets included into the main lighttpd.conf file:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "(www\.)?(hatepad|sexymsg)\.(com|net)" {
  server.document-root        = base + "/domains/sexymsg.com/web/public/"
  server.error-handler-404 = "/dispatch.fcgi"
  fastcgi.server = (
        ".fcgi" => ( "localhost" => ( "socket" => base + "/var/run/sexymsg-0.socket" ) )
        )
}

After that, simply kill and restart the lighttpd process

kill -9 <lighttpd PID>
. ~/etc/rc.d/lighttpd.sh start

This example looks in the current directory for directories named .svn

That isn't the best way to do it. It will break if you have lots of .svn directories. Then the command line will be too long and you will get 'argument list too long'. Recent bash have enormous buffers so this is less of a problem. xargs solves this problem.

The other problem is any file with spaces in the name will cause bash to treat it as two arguments. Which could give an error or could delete the wrong file. find -print0 and xargs -0 solve this problem.

find . -type d -name .svn

find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

OR make an alias to an egrep command and go nuts

alias g='egrep --color=auto -i -r'

from here on out, just type g "" *

case insensitive
recursive
colored results

// description of your code here

gunzip -c <tgz file> | tar xvf -

tar -czf <tar file> <file to archive>[...]

Run at prompt, replacing development.log with the name of the log file

echo -n > development.log

// description of your code here
exports given database to a textfile which can then be zipped and downloaded or sent somewhere (mailing pending)

mysqldump -u <username> -p -q --single-transaction <db_name> > <backup_filename>

To restore the database (be sure to create the target DB before running this)

mysql -u <username> -p <db_name> < <backup_filename>

To backup and restore data only, use -t, no table data

mysqldump -u <username> -p -q --single-transaction -t <db_name> > <backup_filename>

Then restore from command line as usual.

mysql -u <username> -p <db_name> < <backup_filename>