Networking issues when cloning a Debian installation
When cloning a Debian system, be sure to remove everything in: /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistent-net.rules This will allow the new hardware to detect properly.
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Sorting disk usage by folder in Linux
Normally you would use something like this: du -k | sort -nr > sorted.txt But the output is not pretty since we don’t like counting bytes. This will sort it in human readable format: du -k | sort -nr | awk ‘ BEGIN { split(“KB,MB,GB,TB”, Units, “,”); } { u = 1; while ($1 >= […]
Pre-analysis of a DDOS attack on a Cpanel or Linux server
Determine the nature of the attack (SYN, GET, ect): netstat -nat | awk ‘{print $6}’ | sort | uniq -c The following will list all the IPs connecting to the server in order of most connections. netstat -plan|grep :80|awk {‘print $5’}|cut -d: -f 1|sort|uniq -c|sort -nk 1 We can see which domains are most active […]
Setting up a large disk array in Linux through LVM
A very large disk array (hardware RAID) combined with LVM (Logical Volume Management) will give you a vast amount of flexibility. Without LVM, you’ll have to reboot the entire machine to realize the new space when adding RAID members. Using LVM, you can take advantage of OLE (On Line Expansion) and expand your existing volumes […]
Installing ImageMagick on Cpanel
It actually couldn’t be easier. Before you get yourself caught up in dependency hell and start breaking all kinds of things, try the following ‘all in one’ command: /scripts/installimagemagick
How to update cpanel license to correct Invalid License File
If you get Invalid License File when you login to cpanel after a hostname or IP change you need to update your cpanel license file by: Login to shell and run the following from command line: /usr/local/cpanel/cpkeyclt
Free Internet Radio
Work getting you down? Do what I do and listen to some internet radio without any commercials. One of the better sites I’ve come across is myfreenetradio.com http://www.MyFreeNetRadio.com
Image Gallery
I just added an image gallery to the site. There aren’t any pics yet but hopefully I’ll get around to adding some. Here
Non-stop rain?
So it’s been raining for like 8 days straight here in Maryland. Is it ever going to stop? Is Noah on his way just in case my house floats away? I should have bought that flood insurance…