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CentOS httpd taking 90 seconds to restart – systemctl restart httpd
The fix: systemctl kill httpd systemctl start httpd The problem: systemctl restart httpd ### wait for 90 seconds... too long
Using 7z cli to create chunked PST
# create a folder to hold the chunks mkdir archive651 # run the command to split the pst into 1GB chunks and plonk them in the folder 7z a -v1g archive651\archive651 "archive 651.pst" Just discovered that azcopy is nowhere near as good as the AWS utilities that upload...
Replacing my OnePlus 3T with a OnePlus 9
I purchased a OnePlus 3T from Kogan July 2018 It has been a good phone but recently I noticed it was starting to get slow. So I started to think about replacing it However the decision to replace it was forced on me. While on holidays recently in Tasmania I fumbled my...
Use the Azure metadata Service to query the Public IP Address of VM
curl -s -H Metadata:true http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance?api-version=2021-02-01 | jq -r '.network.interface | .[] | .ipv4.ipAddress | .[] | .publicIpAddress' #output 13.70.193.102
Get Your External IP Address
curl -s https://ipinfo.io/json | jq curl http://checkip.amazonaws.com
Free Web Application Firewall from CloudFlare
So I just saw a Youtube video about a DDOS attack and saw an article online about Cloudflare offering a free Web Application Firewall. What does a WAF do? You transfer for your DNS Zone management to Cloudflare It changes the IP Address of your website so that it...
