Today I discovered Ketchup, a little command-line tool to manage your Linux kernel sources. If you’re one of the weirdos, who is still compiling his kernel manually for whatever reason (like I do), I can only recommend it. Ketchup nicely eases up the entire process of checking for updates and applying them to your system.

Let’s not hesitate and look at few usage examples… Want to know what’s the latest version of a particular kernel-tree?
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I need sometimes to clone a vps in an openvz environment, so here you can find three methods to do this task:
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Wget is a great command line  for grabbing things from the web, but it doesn’t ship with macs. So if you want to install it here are a few steps:

1. download the source file: http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.11.tar.gz
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Past that, I’d use a script, similar to what Peter mentioned. I tend to just write simple perl regex’s to work right on the user.conf files.
eg: disable spam:
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Hello everyone,

Since there are alot of people asking for it, here is my HowTo about mod_ruid2
This is based on my CentOS server with Apache 2.x.

Installing this module its no longer needed to chmod config files to 666 or upload/attachments directories to 777. Since with this module enabled everything @ HTTP will run under the user itself and not ‘apache’ anymore.
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