Create a branch 'production' which contains all changes that should went onto the production server:

hg branch production && hg commit -m "Added new branch 'production'"

Clone repo to remote:

hg clone . ssh://user@host//path/to/repository

On the server, switch to production branch:

hg update production

Now add the following hook into the .hg/hgrc:

This is a re-post of my mail to the suphp mailing list. Although the behaviour described here is a serious design issue, I've never got any feedback.

The attached patch is some kind of "proof of concept" to solve a security related problem I have with suPHP.

Problem: Run script with file/directory owner threatens the user's files.

Apache's include directive does not accept wildcards, so something like this won't be allowed:

Include /srv/www/vhosts/*/conf/vhost.conf

You can use mod_perl to realize this. Additionally, the following example does a simple permission check to ensure that the included file has not been modified by an ordinary user:

Soeben habe ich die neuen 2TB-Festplatten in den Media-PC eingebaut und mich dazu entschieden, dieses mal dem neuen Linux-Dateisystem btrfs eine Chance zu geben. Im Gegensatz zum klassischen ext beherscht dieses nämlich von Haus aus RAID-Funktionalitäten (Level 0, 1 und 10) sowie Snapshots. Das RAID im Level 1 schützt vor physikalischen Fehlern, die Snapshots - sofern man sie regelmäßig anlegt - vor logischen, wie einem versehentlichen 'rm -rf'.

2014-02-26:
I've updated this HowTo for current versions of udev and kvm.

libvirt/kvm allows you to expose any usb device attached to your physical maschine to the guests. Just edit the domain's XML definition and add the following <hostdev> to the <devices> area:

Einsatzbereich: 24/7-Linux-Server mit zu Beginn zwei oder drei virtuellen Maschinen.
Besondere Anforderungen: Einigermaßen geringer Stromverbrauch im Idle-Modus, SEHR leise.