Masao Kitamura Blog

How to fix sshfs “Connection reset by peer”

masao — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:09:46 +0000

Clear out the /etc/hosts.deny file on the destination server

Also, make sure these lines are uncommented in your sshd_config file on the destination server:

/etc/ssh/sshd_config:
Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
DenyGroups nossh

masao — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:36:22 +0000

If you get “auto adjustment locked” on your Samsung 225BW monitor, hold down your “MENU” button for 5 seconds and it will unlock.

masao — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:24:59 +0000

Writing to standard error in PHP:

fwrite(STDERR, “hello error string\n”);

Useful for standalone PHP scripts.

masao — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:10:44 +0000

Regular expression to remove empty lines:

:%g/^$/d

masao — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:07:53 +0000

Create a 1GB temp file fast:

time dd if=/dev/zero of=FileOfZeros.txt bs=1024k count=1024

Useful for testing disk IO speed.

masao — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:45:14 +0000

How to quickly copy a file or directory over SSH using tar:

tar -cf - myfile | ssh target_host tar -xf -

If you want to change the target directory, use this:

tar -cf - myfile | ssh target_host “cd /target_dir; tar -xf -”

masao — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:32:36 +0000

The correct way to recursively merge two branches using Subversion:

svn merge target_dir@revision source_dir@revision working_dir

Notice:

Use this example when you’re in the working directory you’re trying to merge into:

svn merge .@head source_dir@head .

After merging, you’ll want to check that the merge succeeded:

diff -u –recursive source_dir target_dir

masao — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:44:32 +0000

propset svn:executable “*” myfile.txt

masao — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:59:37 +0000

If you created a branch and want to merge your branch changes into trunk, here’s what to do:

svn merge trunk_path@head branch_path@head .

masao — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:55:16 +0000

# tar cf - source_dir | ( cd target_dir && tar xBf - )