Seeing Patterns with strace: Wall of “close” System Calls Strace lets you see patterns in system calls made by processes. This post covers the wall of “close” system calls often seen by daemonized processes.
Using rsync, files-from, and FIFOs to Transfer a Dynamically Generated List of Files Use rsync’s –files-from and –rsync-path option to create a dynamic list of files to sync from the remote.
Forcing Rsync to Create a Remote Path Using –rsync-path rsync has a –rsync-path parameter that allows you to cheat and specify commands to run before executing rsync.
Nginx, Mojolicious, and Dealing with robots.txt A story about me figuring out how to serve static content before proxied content with nginx and Mojolicious.