Tag: UNIX

What directory PHP is busy with

The file “cwd” under /proc/pid is a symbolic link to the “current working directory”:

for i in `ps -ef | awk ‘/php/{print $2}’`
do
ls -l /proc/${i}/cwd
done

The result is:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 alekz alekz 0 Янв 25 02:40 /proc/11544/cwd -> /home/alekz/public_html/blog/wp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alekz alekz 0 Янв 25 02:40 /proc/11764/cwd -> /home/alekz/public_html/alekz.net
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alekz alekz 0 Янв 25 02:40 /proc/12574/cwd -> /home/alekz/public_html/alekz.net
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alekz alekz 0 Янв 25 02:40 /proc/13081/cwd -> /home/alekz/public_html/alekz.net
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alekz alekz 0 Янв 25 02:45 /proc/15053/cwd -> /home/alekz/public_html/blog/wp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alekz alekz 0 Янв 25 02:45 /proc/15056/cwd -> /home/alekz/public_html/blog/wp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alekz alekz 0 Янв 25 02:49 /proc/15696/cwd -> /home/alekz/public_html/blog/wp/wp-content/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/captcha-secureimage

Of course, you can use any other process name instead of php.

And here’s a “dynamic” version:
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dcpumon and dcpumonview

Found another cPanel application which you can safely turn off in order to safe some bytes and cycles.

By default dcpumon runs every 5 min to log CPU usage (“top” output) :

# crontab -l | fgrep cpu
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/cpanel/bin/dcpumon >/dev/null 2>&1
#

and stores the data into /var/log/dcpumon

You can view the report with dcpumonview command:

# /usr/local/cpanel/bin/dcpumonview
———————————————————–
|User |Domain |CPU%|MEM%|MySQL#|
———————————————————–
|alekz |alekz.net |17.72|37.07|0.3 |
| Top Process | 27.8 | /usr/bin/php |
| Top Process | 14.2 | /usr/bin/php |
| Top Process | 12.3 | /usr/bin/php |
|mysql | |11.47|3.05|0.0 |
| Top Process | 11.7 | /usr/sbin/mysqld –basedir/ –datadir/var/lib/mysql –usermysql –pid-file/var/lib/mysql/alekz.pid –skip-external-locking |

Firefox and places.sqlite tricks

Sometimes you need to remotely get your bookmarks, history or check the top-10 sites, etc. Here’s some neat tricks to get the info from the Firefox Places file called places.sqlite, which is an SQLite database with the following tables (see also the picture):
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MAC for UNIX

MAC (Monkey’s Audio Converter) for Windows can be downloaded from http://www.monkeysaudio.com. But what about a UNIX version? Two years ago v3.99 Update 4 Build 5 was released but then the development stopped because of some contradictory licensing reasons. That means that MAC for UNIX is not maintained anymore. Fortunately, the old version still works. I compiled it under Solaris 11 x86 and use it for SqueezeCenter.

The source tar file is attached to the post: mac-399-u4-b5.tgz (MD5)

Some notes.

  • To check the MD5 digest:
    % md5sum -c mac-3.99-u4-b5.tgz.md5
    mac-3.99-u4-b5.tgz: OK
  • Always use –prefix=/usr/local (or any other directory in which you keep non-standard files) configuration parameter, because by default the prefix is set to /usr. You might overwrite Solaris file /usr/bin/mac (message authentication code):
    % ./configure –prefix=/usr/local
  • If you are going to use –enable-assembly=yes option (you need yasm to compile assembler code) under Solaris change “sh” to “bash” in src/MACLib/Assembly/Makefile in the following line (line 214 in my case):
    STRIP_FPIC = sh $(top_srcdir)/strip_fPIC.sh

    This is what the line should look like:

    STRIP_FPIC = bash $(top_srcdir)/strip_fPIC.sh
  • There is already a program /bin/mac (see above). If you don’t want to use the full path to the MAC, simply rename the latter:
    # mv /usr/local/bin/mac /usr/local/bin/MAC