January 27, 2011
by Marius Voila
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Here is a little script I made to quickly and easily create users and databases for MySQL. I only use this for development, for actual deployed applications you would probably want to be more specific about the privileges given: #!/bin/bash … Continue reading
January 22, 2011
by Marius Voila
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I wrote a shell script to assist in migrating an entire Linux CentOS 5.X server. The script should work with most Red Hat based Linux distributions such as Fedora, but I have not officially tested it. I only tested with … Continue reading
October 25, 2010
by Marius Voila
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If you already have Dropbox you already know that it has a Public folder where you can save files for everyone to download. If you are using the GUI version of Dropbox you can even right click on the file … Continue reading
October 6, 2010
by Marius Voila
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How to find those files that have different names but exactly the same content? You could install the good fdupes or you could just reinvent the wheel with bash, md5sum and awk: find path/ -type f | xargs md5sum | … Continue reading
September 29, 2010
by Marius Voila
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If the memory runs out the kernel just use an agent which will try to free some memory by killing those processes which are both old and fat (i.e. use a lot of memory for too long). Every process comes … Continue reading
September 22, 2010
by Marius Voila
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All of servers that I manage are currently based off of the Phoenix, Arizona, USA Timezone. This script allows this conversion from each HN (Host Node): #!/bin/bash for f in `ls /vz/private` do vzctl exec $f rm -f /etc/localtime 2>/dev/null … Continue reading
August 30, 2010
by Marius Voila
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Bash is a wonderful fully featured shell that provides a multitude of ways to cut back on your keystrokes. One of my favorite features, which I don’t see used often enough, is brace expansion. Simply put, brace expansion lets you … Continue reading
June 22, 2010
by Marius Voila
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Whipped this up for work, figured I’d share with the world, since it’s decently useful. Stick it in cron nightly, needs to run as root. It will run a diff on what it sees and email you if there are … Continue reading
May 14, 2010
by Marius Voila
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Finally i had some time to finish my backup script…you can find sources and the script in the link…I wait for your feedback CHRONOS v3.0
April 17, 2010
by Marius Voila
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I’ve been lazy at maintaining my servers recently and decided to start playing with puppet reports. First I started with something simple that helps me to find on which machines my manifests have some failure. So here’s a quick and … Continue reading