Monthly Archives: August 2011

Subversion security issues – .svn directory has your source code in it

Stop Publishing Your Source! Well, unless you’re working on an Open Source project that is. Many of the developers I have worked with on web based apps use a working copy for development purposes or even for staging servers (as … Continue reading

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Subversion Update: Can’t move .svn/tmp/entries to .svn/entries: Operation not permitted

Just one little change to check in before the day is over, but my working copy needs to be updated first. Then I get this little gem of an error “Can’t move .svn/tmp/entries to .svn/entries: Operation not permitted”. It is … Continue reading

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MySQL: Cannot load from mysql.proc. The table is probably corrupted

Ok this one sounds pretty scary, but more than likely you just upgraded MySQL didn’t you? Did you run mysql_upgrade? Ok lets back up a bit. I just upgraded to MySQL 5.5.x using yum and a third party repo but … Continue reading

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Find out what process is listening on a particular port on a Linux server

I was recently trying to debug an app that had gone rouge on a server because of a PHP upgrade. It was a web based application listening on a particular port and after the upgrade it just returned 500 server … Continue reading

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