Month: September 2011

The last time I noticed this happen is when our local radio station 2HD had a script inclusion to something noxious. Anyway IT security is important.

Looking at my auth.log on an internet accessible server. I notice that there has been 3071 unsuccesful login attempts since last the logs rotated. cat /var/log/auth.log | grep invalid | grep ssh | wc 3071 49136 327541 # does any one know how to match two arguments...

Just had a situation where I ran palimpsest and tried to carve another partition onto a 2TB disk which I had only put a single 500GB partition on. To cut a long story short I ended up losing the current partition on the disk which was also my /home. So not fun. In the...

Something that has annoyed me for the longest time. I have just downloaded a zip ball of the latest development code of gallery 3. Typically you unzip the zipball and it creates randomly named folder e.g. "gallery-gallery3-dfbfe09" then you have to copy the contents...

So I've been running on the Rackspace cloud for a week or so. The server stays up: w 22:45:08 up 4 days, 17:23, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.10, 0.10 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT root pts/0 cpe-XXX-XXX-XXX- 22:45 0.00s 0.01s 0.00s w And it uses memory but...

Good Concept Just be prepared for head scratching I had a post with this as the URL /it-tips/getting-screenshots-working-the-way-i-like-in-lxde couldn't access with mod_security running. The reason it didn't like the word "like" in the Permalink tag. So I've changed...

SeLinux troubleshooting

Hard disk model hdparm -I /dev/sdb | grep Model Model Number: WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 Capacity and sector size hdparm -I /dev/sdb | grep size Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes device size with M = 1024*1024: 1907729 MBytes device size with M...

This will seem really simple to those that know about these things, but hey I'm easily amused. Here is a snippet from an /etc/init.d script HTTPD=/httpd/bin/httpd PIDFILE=/httpd/logs/httpd.pid if pidof $HTTPD | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -w $(cat $PIDFILE); then return 0 fi...