Scripting

Script to customize a linux install

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. […]

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Linux

Mounting remote filesystems using SSH and Debian

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 […]

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Security

mysql_secure_installation — Improve MySQL Installation Security

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 […]

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Scripting

Restart dead daemon automatically

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”) }’

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Windows

Disable ZIP file handling in Windows XP

I do not want to open ZIP files in Windows Explorer since it takes a long time to open big ZIP files. To disable the built in support for ZIP files in Windows XP execute the following command in a command window (cmd.exe) regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll To enable it again regsvr32 %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll

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