Monthly Archives: August 2007

My dad’s first Twins game

Last week I was talking to my dad about his experiences as a young Twins fan. He lived way down in Southwest Minnesota, as he still does today, so the four hour drive to Minneapolis was none too frequent. Anyway, his first Twins game, in the middle of July, 1962, was rather exciting:

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Rolling your Rails logs with logrotate

Now that I’m managing Scrawlers‘ server, I have the power to use a more appropriate Rails log rotation technique than I was allowed at Dreamhost. Specifically, I can use logrotate on my Ubuntu Slicehost slice.

In my setup, logrotate was already automatically running every night around 1:40AM. (Honestly, I’m not sure how, but I [...]