Add a logging function to your bash script
I write a lot of scripts that do various jobs and most of the time I’d like to have some log of what happened. So for most of them I add a function that helps logging. View Code BASH1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9...
View ArticleOpen a magnet link on a remote (or local) transmission server.
One of the services I run on my home server is a transmission daemon. I use it mainly to download images for my Raspberry PI, new distro iso’s to play with in Virtualbox and so on. Recently there’s...
View ArticleRemove duplicates from the current folder
I needed today to remove duplicate files from a big folder (8Gb+, 10000+ files). I use the nice fdupes program written by Adrian Lopez fdupes -rdN . Note the point after the parameters. That means to...
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Email a list of updates from a Debian server.
Do you run remote servers? Me too. It’s a good ideea to keep them up to date. On the other hand I don’t like automatic updates, something might break when you least want or expect it. So I prefer to be...
View ArticleHandy onliner: what packages use the most diskspace on Slackware
I was configuring a small openvpn system (on a VIA epia based system with a 2Gb CF card as disk) and I wanted to free some space since the install left very little free. Change head -nxx to show as...
View ArticleUseful oneliner: check the memory usage of apache / httpd processes
This is a handy one liner that reports the usage of the apache processes (apache2 on debian/ubunto or httpd in slackware, centos, etc) 1ps -ylC httpd | awk '{x += $8;y += 1} END {print "Apache Memory...
View ArticleSimple script to add multiple trackers to a torrent downloading in transmission
Sometime you might want to download some old or obscure distro that was once packaged as a torrent. But many times the tracker embeded in the torrent file has long been abandoned or it has no peers....
View Articlemysqldump: Got error 28 from storage engine
This is a new one for me. I was dumping some databases on a server when I got this: View Code BASH1 2 mysqldump: Error: 'Got error 28 from storage engine' when trying to dump tablespaces mysqldump:...
View ArticleApache IP based restrictions based on a text list. No restart required.
I run a few services on a remote host that I want to restrict access to. For that I use both a password and IP based restrictions. The issue is that for example at home I have a dynamic allocated IP....
View ArticleCount traffic from an apache log file
I had to count traffic made by a resource from the apache log files. If awstats had been installed it would have been an easy job, but it wasn’t hard without it either. I used hints from here to build...
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