Install Zoneminder on Ubuntu 18.04 with shell script Rumi, November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 This will install Zoneminder by using a shell script with one basic command (how easy is that!). You will need a Ubuntu 18.04 install with LAMP (Apache, MySQL and PHP) installed desktop or server. As an alternate you may use Mariadb in lieu of MySQL Shell script file contents: #!/bin/sh… Continue Reading
Archiving a large backup across multiple discs on Linux Rumi, September 6, 2019 We have two options (as we obviously don’t want to delete our data!) Use a different backup medium Split the backup across multiple volumes Sometimes the former just isn’t appropriate, as much because of the cost of harddrives vs Optical Media (i.e. CD’s/DVD’s). This short tutorial will explain how to… Continue Reading
PHP Session test Script Rumi, May 6, 2018May 6, 2018 I’ve just found a quality script to test php session- unless you’re in dark after some php.ini session tweaking done. To check if sessions really work you can use this code: <?php // Start Session session_start(); // Show banner echo ‘<b>Session Support Checker</b><hr />’; // Check if the page has… Continue Reading
How to keep a job running in Linux Rumi, November 13, 2017November 13, 2017 There are many ways to keep a process running on linux but I haven’t seen any that are as easy to implement as the script below. Basically the script does a ps ax and then a grep for your process. If it’s not running it will re-start the process. You install the script into… Continue Reading
How to quickly stress test a web server Rumi, November 13, 2017 The Curl syntax allows you to specify sequences and sets of URL’s. Say for example we’re going to run a load stress test against Google we can run… curl -s “http://google.com?[1-1000]” This will make 1000 calls to google i.e. Continue Reading
Very Generic Linux Service Watchdog script Rumi, June 16, 2016 A strong watchdog script- indeed! #!/bin/bash # # watchdog # # Run as a cron job to keep an eye on what_to_monitor which should always # be running. Restart what_to_monitor and send notification as needed. # # This needs to be run as root or a user that can start… Continue Reading
IP Setting on CentOS6 using Shell Script Rumi, December 6, 2015 #!/bin/bash if [ $# -eq 5 ] then echo “” echo “Taking the backup and Changing the hostname from $(hostname) to $1 …” sed -i.bk “s/$(hostname)/$1/g” /etc/sysconfig/network echo “” echo “Backing up & Assigning the Static IP …” echo “” cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$2 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/$2.bk cat <<EOF > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$2 DEVICE=$2 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=$3.$4… Continue Reading
Zimbra Domain Administration (Multi-tenant) Rumi, June 4, 2015 In order to create a multi tenancy in zimbra OSA, can be acheived through a bash script below. Thanks to Ahmad Imanuddin (http://www.imanudin.com) for sharing this very useful script. cd /srv/ vi admin-delegate.sh Fill with the following line : Continue Reading
Bash Shellshock fix with scripts for Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and other distros. including old Rumi, October 3, 2014December 19, 2014 First check if your Bash is vulnerable, execute the following command- env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable’ bash -c ‘echo this is a test’ If your system is vulnerable, you will see: vulnerable this is a test If your system is not vulnerable, you will see: bash: warning: x: ignoring… Continue Reading
Linux service restart shell script Rumi, June 6, 2014 I badly needed a script that would check if my running services (in this script it'll check varnish and apache2 services) are alive- if not, it'll restart the dead service and write a log. Pretty handy! #!/bin/sh STARTAPACHE="/etc/init.d/apache2 start" STARTVARNISH="/etc/init.d/varnish start" Continue Reading