A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
I’m running Debian Etch because I prefer the stable Debian package tree. This is all great but the software is a little outdated compared to other distributions like Ubuntu. That is where backports come in. Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates), so they will […]
This is a bash oneliner to show Apache web connections pr hour. It lists up the IPs that has accessed your webserver and the amount og accesses. # cat /var/log/apache2/access_log_pario.no | grep “21/Jan/2008:..” | awk {‘ print $4″:”$1 ‘} | sed ‘s/\[//g’ | awk -F : {‘ print $1″:”$2″\t\t”$5 ‘} | sort | uniq -c […]
This is a simple bash script I whipped together to make som custom changes on our linux installations, it can be used as a kickstart post-configuration file for RedHat RHEL4 and RHEL5 installations. #!/bin/bash # Enable daily updates of the locate database perl -pi -e ‘s/DAILY_UPDATE=no/DAILY_UPDATE=yes/’ /etc/updatedb.conf # Customize login banners echo “Authorized users only. […]
This post describes how to mount a remote filesystem through SSH using the shfs kernel module on a Debian Etch server. By doing this I can access the remote filesystem as if it was a local filesystem and also use my local tools and software. This is a short description of how I made a […]
This program enables you to improve the security of your MySQL installation in the following ways: You can set a password for root accounts. You can remove root accounts that are accessible from outside the local host. You can remove anonymous-user accounts. You can remove the test database, which by default can be accessed by […]