If you are using nagios in your hosting environment and need to install nrpe on your XenServer servers, here’s a good way to do it.
I’m using XenServer 6.1 (latest version). Continue Reading…
My server had some tables marked as ‘crashed’ in one of the databases.. the server had recently gone down pretty harshly so I wanted to go through and check, repair and optimize all of the tables in every database on the server (there are about 30 databases.. mostly wordpress ones.. some vbulletin.. some xenforo). Continue Reading…
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…
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…
