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Modifying the WordPress sitemap.xml output

I use Wordpress for customer websites with the Divi theme and layouts however Wordpress is fundamentally a blogging platform so its sitemap.xml contains links to categories and users and you might not want to have those publicised and indexed by Google The following...

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User crontab missing supplementary groups

Problem: You get access denied when running a script from your user crontab but not when running it interactively Cause: Your user is in the correct group when logged in but not for cron Resolution: Add the user to the correct group This is on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS How to...

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Check if VARIABLES are set with Bash

I have a script that needs to check if it is called with an environment that contains two variables OPERATOR_ADDRESSDELEGATOR_ADDRESS if it does not find them it will call a script ./getNodeAddressBech32.sh to set them and continue. How do you (properly) check for a...

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Clear the DNS Cache in Firefox

If you have edited your C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file to add a custom DNS entry and run ipconfig /flushdns and Firefox is still returning the old address enter the following in the browser location bar and then click the Clear DNS Cache button...

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Timezone aware cron on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Problem: System is running in UTC time zone and I would like to set user cron entries in local time (Australia/Melbourne). It is annoying modifying your cron jobs every 6 months due to daylight savings changes. Resolution: Install fcron and get time zone aware...

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