Don’t try to reinvent a complex and highly refined wheel, especially when customer data is involved. Please use phpass on any PHP project. (that’s PH-Pass) http://www.openwall.com/phpass/ Good reading for password hashing in general. http://www.openwall.com/articles/PHP-Users-Passwords
wget http://layer1.rack911.com/before_apache_make -O /scripts/before_apache_make chmod 700 /scripts/before_apache_make ## Rebuild apache (might want to do it thru WHM instead) /scripts/easyapache –build
I’ve got a couple of Linux machines that are sitting outside of the Sflow ‘zone’ and AS traffic stats go unmeasured. I wanted to get a rough idea on the number of connections per AS number so here’s a little app that parses netstat and sorts AS numbers by number of connection. NOTE1: This won’t […]
There are 3 primary options: 1. Use PAR with PAR::Filter::Obfuscate or PAR::Filter::Crypto 2. Use Filter::Crypto::CryptFile (requires certain modules installed on target system) 3. Encrypt modules with Module::Crypt.
Update: 5/3/17 — Add additional notes for CentOS7 (dracut + grub2) and XenServer targets All commands are run on new server. 1. Boot into rescue mode (iso, pxe, ect). 2. Create partitions with ‘fdisk /dev/sda’. Type 83 for non-RAID fs, 82 for swap, type fd in the case of RAID (all partitions). Flag boot partition […]
This tool will poll the output of command(s) or URL(s), and send email alerts if the output changes, contains (or not contains) certain text, or becomes unavailable. It’s a light weight, reliable monitoring replacement for the pile of garbage most RAID vendors include with their cards. Complex excludes and finds can be specified as Perl […]
I just added a 4th monitor to my office PC and finally admitted to needing help with window placement, far beyond Windows 7’s limited snap feature, this tool really gets the job done: http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/ It’s a free, light-weight ‘snap’ on steroids designed specifically for multi-display setups.
XenServer multipath.conf with special support for LIO-based iSCSI targets to maximize multipath performance and ensures 100% stability. path_grouping_policy setting doesn’t seem to matter (between group_by_prio and multibus) in most basic setups. Invalid lines (as reported by XenServer 6.1) have also been removed. http://djlab.com/stuff/xs61/multipath.conf Specifically: device { vendor “LIO-ORG” product “*” path_grouping_policy group_by_prio path_checker tur getuid_callout […]
Supermicro X9SCM and X9SCL main boards will lose network connection after some heavy traffic, especially on RHEL/CentOS 6. Updating BIOS and driver will not always fix this: Oct 19 18:32:49 zeus kernel: ————[ cut here ]———— Oct 19 18:32:49 zeus kernel: WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:267 dev_watchdog+0x26d/0x280() (Not tainted) Oct 19 18:32:49 zeus kernel: Hardware name: X9SCL/X9SCM […]
In recent releases of Ubuntu (at least 10.x) by default the non-graphical console attempts to use the max possible resolution supported by the connected monitor. Other than being hard on the eyes, this can cause issues with some KVM units and even more issues for headless machines that need to be troubleshooted with a crash […]