A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
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 […]
This is a simple bash script to restart a dead daemon, in this example I’ll use apache #!/bin/bash # Automatically restart httpd if it dies netstat -ln | grep “:80 ” | wc -l | awk ‘{if ($1 == 0) system(“/etc/init.d/httpd restart”) }’
This is a simple bash script to rename all JPG file extensions to JPEG, it works recursively and takes subfolders also. #!/bin/bash function rename_extension { #change all .jpg to .jpeg for file in $1/*.jpg; do mv $file $1/`basename $file .jpg`.jpeg; echo $file; done; # recurse directories for d in $1/*; do if test -d $d; […]