Monthly Archives: March 2011

Using Solr with Upstart instead of init.d

You can use the default Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/) examples right out of the box with Upstart to emulate a working daemon on your servers. Unpack the Solr download anywhere on your server and clone the “example” directory to a unique folder … Continue reading

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Using Phergie with Upstart (a.k.a. Phergie #winning)

I use Phergie http://phergie.org with my server to sit on a few IRC channels and provide features I find useful. However I used to initialize Phergie with a sc command watch it sit behind screen and have to monitor it … Continue reading

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