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Tar Errors: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword

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Problem: Unknown Tar Extraction Warnings/Errors I was running a script on Ubuntu Linux that extracted a tar archive, and I noticed many of the following errors whizzing by my console: I was concerned that the the extraction might not be working properly and that I might run into unexpected errors. Explanation: Mac OS X Issue [...]

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Configuring Log Rotation of Apache2 and Other Logs

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I went to check out my apache2 logs and I noticed that they were being automatically rotated (access.log, access.log.1, etc.) and compressed with gzip (access.log.2.gz, etc.). This seems to be the default Ubuntu configuration. I wanted to make find out more, and I found this helpful article about Ubuntu logs, including Apache2 Log info and [...]

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