install 7zip redhat
To install 7zip on a 64 bit Redhat Server: # rpm -ivh # rpm -ivh
Modify ip-tables directly in ubuntu
To modify ip-tables directly in ubuntu First save off your current config: $ sudo -s $ iptables-save > $ iptables-save > .to.modify At this point you can modify the file. Once your are satisfied restore it # iptables-restore <…
kill orphaned httpd processes
to kill orphaned httpd processes create a script called killhttpd.sh with the following code #!/bin/bash for pid in `ps -C httpd|sed -e ‘s/^\ \+//g’ | grep httpd|awk ‘{print $1}’` do kill $pid done
Configure postfix with Gmail via Webmin
Configure postfix with Gmail via Webmin This assumes the user has webmin installed and understands how to log in and use it. (Usually bring it up in a browser at https://localhost:10000 ) Make sure that postfix is installed. In Webmin this…
Generate crontab scripts
Someone recently passed me this link and it looks great! You can generate crontab scripts via a website. Here’s the link:
reset linux password email user script
this script will reset a user’s password and email it to them. It accepts two parameters (username) (email address) Example Usage: . someuser [email protected] #!/usr/local/bin/bash if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then echo “Please provide a username and email address”;…
install ant centos
To install Apache Ant on Cent-OS follow these steps: # yum install ant # yum install xml-commons-apis You should see something like this: # ant -version Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on January 6 2007 Here is a good tutorial…
Secure Apache ServerTokes and ServerSignature directives
There are two config directives that controls Apache version. The ServerSignature directive adds a line containing the Apache HTTP Server server version and the ServerName to any server-generated documents, such as error messages sent back to clients. ServerSignature is set…
howto move mysql freebsd without dump
to move mysql on freebsd without using a dump file follow these steps: stop mysql copy /var/db/mysql to its new location chown -R mysql:mysql modify and add line mysql_dbdir=”“ modify and change mysql_dbdir=”/var/db/mysql” to the new location of…
rename mysql schema
How can you rename a mysql Schema? easy! Create the new schema In this example the new schema is called my_new_schema mysqladmin -u root -p create my_new_schema Dump the old schema and pipe in to new schema mysqldump -u root…