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Migrating from GitLab to GitHub (Without the Baggage of Large Files)

When working with large data or heavy dependencies, it’s not uncommon for repositories to exceed GitHub’s 100MB file size limit. If you’re migrating from GitLab to GitHub and encounter this issue, you’ll need to clean your repo history and strip out large files before pushing. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to successfully […]

Password less command line scripts with MySQL 5.6

I have a number of command line scripts that copy MySQL databases down from staging servers and store them locally. These scripts set the password on the command line using the -p option. With MySQL 5.6, a new warning is displayed every time my scripts run: Warning: Using a password on the command line interface […]

Nagios Notifications using SMTP server with Authentication

We needed to setup Nagios to utilize our internet service providers SMTP Email server for notification emails. The biggest problem was that the ISP’s outgoing email server requires authentication. Nagios setup with SMTP outgoing authentications. These are instructions and examples on how we got this setup working. I hope this helps others in the Nagios […]