Isn’t it annoying when you want to connect to your home network while out and about but don’t know what your IP is? Sick of dynamic DNS sites with arbitrary restrictions on their free tiers? Well look no further! This tutorial demonstrates how to point your home IP to a subdomain of your website using a simple PHP script.

The Concept

• Set up a Route 53 subdomain for pointing to your home
• A device in your home uses a scheduled task to ping a URL on your website
• That URL grabs the IP hitting it and points your subdomain to the IP.

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After upgrading to 11.10 recently, I occasionally noticed fuser firing up and using between 70% and astoundingly 9999% CPU. Googling the issue led me to this post with the solution.

As user grazer explains:

We have the same problem. This is the content of /etc/cron.d/php5 on 11.10:

09,39 * * * * root [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) ! -execdir fuser -s {} 2>/dev/null \; -delete

And this is the content on 11.04:

09,39 * * * * root [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -delete

Spot the difference?

The 11.10 version runs fuser for each PHP session file, thus using all the CPU when there are hundreds of sessions.

After commenting out the 11.10 line and replacing with the 11.04 equivalent, this problem was solved for me aswell. Thanks, grazer!

You can also check out the bug report to keep up to date on this issue. Hopefully a fix will be released quickly.

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