Linux

In a previous post, I walked the user through how to setup a cron job to automatically create a nightly mySQL backup (see http://ejhildreth.com/content/setting-cron-mysql-backups). This is great but has one huge flaw: The database backups keep piling up unless I manually remove them. Since scripting makes the computer work for me, I fired up VIM and created some new shell scripts.

Lullabot developer Addi Berry put together some great screencasts on how to setup local Drupal test environments on Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu. Even though I have been running Kubuntu as my primary OS at home for over a month now, I hadn't actually set up my test server yet! To make sure I didn't make a misstep, I used Addi's video as the basis for the setup I did on my machine, but command lineified it a bit:

1. Open Konsole
2. Login as root
   • sudo -s