Often, you’ll go looking for a shell command that you used in the past – you can remember around when you did it but of course that won’t help you because by default the bash history won’t show you dates/times. Here is an easy way to remedy that. It won’t go into the past and give you dates, but from this point forward you’ll know when commands were executed. Continue Reading…
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One of the easiest ways to start securing your server (and speeding it up) is to turn off unnecessary services that are usually running by default. This little script will go through and turn off those services. Please read through the script to see what it is doing and comment out (put a # in front of the line) anything that you want to keep running. Continue Reading…
Have you ever wanted to make your own MySQL database backups? You can use this script I wrote to make a backup of all databases, then save each one in a dated backup directory. It will keep doing this and keep 10 days worth of backups. I’d suggest you use rsync or something to automatically back them up off the server each night/morning also. Continue Reading…
Your server needs more space eh? Throw another physical drive in there and let’s use that to increase the logical volume that needs more space! In this example, we are going to use a Citrix XenServer VPS running CentOS. We are going to increase the logical volume from 250gb to 300gb.
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