bat file as administrator
I wanted to be able to run a bat file as administrator in order to have an easy shortcut to edit my windows hosts file. Here’s what I found Shortcut to edit windows hosts file as Admin Creating the batch…
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restart service over ssh
I recently ran in to trouble restarting neo4j over ssh here’s the fix: From machine calling neo4j host ssh -f $USER@$HOST ‘sh -c “( (nohup sudo restart 2>&1 >output.file </dev/null) & )”‘ Target Machine Sudoers Replace “someuser” with whatever…
Testing SSL Chaining Issues
Recently I needed to debug an issue by testing SSL chaining issues My old standby tools (curl and openssl were not reporting any errors) The exception javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path validation failed: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Path does not chain with any of…
Download a Single File from Amazon S3
How can we easily download a single file from Amazon S3? Install s3cmd apt-get install ipset Setup s3cmd s3cmd –configure List your buckets and files s3cmd ls Download your file s3cmd get s3://bucket-name//file-name
Whitelist Entire Country with ipset
Goal: Whitelist an Entire Country with ipset For this article i’ll be referencing the github repository I set up at We have a few files there, specifically: * cidr_to_ipset.sh (a script to create an ipset ruleset) * Some example…
barnyard2 won’t log to database – how to fix it
What to do when barnyard2 won’t log to the database…. Are you seeing something like this? [SignatureReferencePullDataStore()]: No Reference found in database … Full text: # /usr/local/bin/barnyard2 -c -d /var/log/snort -f snort.log -w Running in Continuous mode –==…
AWS add two network interfaces in ubuntu 12.04 precise
Objective Add two network interface in ubuntu 12.04 in aws and route traffic properly to either ip Scope: Amazon EC2 Attach Elastic Network Interface (VPC) Related Documentation Process Start AMI in VPC After boot attach…
egrep valid ip address
Example to egrep valid ip address To egrep all valid ip addresses in current directory: egrep -r ‘[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}’ . An Alternative: /bin/egrep ‘\b(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\b’
Howto make Mongo SSL on Ubuntu 12.04
To make Mongo DB SSL on Ubuntu 12.04 you need to either purchase it or compile from source. To make compiling from source easy here’s a script to help you out! Mongo Compile SSL from Source Script Note: Make sure…
neo4j SSL howto
Getting SSL to work with neo4j can be very frustrating. The crux of the problem is that their documentation isn’t very robust. Here’s what they don’t tell you: Both the cert and the key MUST be in DER format! example…