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Code Tags: bash
I needed to keep my GeoIP db up to date for my stats package so I decided to write a cron script that would do it for me.

bash code:
#!/bin/bash
 
#############################################################
# ./geoipupdate = Auto updates the free GeoIP databases
# (c) andrew[at]bluerhinos.co.uk 2010 : Creative Commons
#############################################################
 
#list of urls
URLS=" http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz"
URLS="$URLS http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz"
 
#target directory
TARGETDIR="/var/lib/GeoIP"
 
for URL in $URLS
do
        wget -q -N -P "$TARGETDIR" "$URL"
        BASENAME=`basename "$URL"`
        gunzip -f  "$TARGETDIR/$BASENAME";
done
 

Place the above code (or download here http://blogs.bluerhinos.co.uk/data/files/9/geoipupdate ) into /etc/cron.monthly/geoipupdate

Note: they update their db on the 1st or 2nd so I changed my /etc/crontab so that the monthly scrips run on the 3rd

Os: Debian
Oh and it has to be stable ish.

Yesterday I had to try and get php-ffmpeg and x264 enabled ffmpeg to sit side by side each other on a Debian Lenny install. The problem is that debian's ffmpeg that ships in the lenny package tree is not 264 enabled. But when you use the ffmpeg from debian-multimedia it breaks the installed php-ffmpeg.

So I suggest you do this:

Start With vanilla debian install

Install your php, apache, php-ffmpeg etc

Then add your debian-multimedia.org as a apt source.

Then follow these instructions
http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Installing_svn_ffmpeg_on_a_Debian_based_distro
(I have attahed a pdf of the page incase its not there when you read this, Data: Instruction for compiling ffmpeg

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