Month: March 2009

How do I capture the output of “top” to a file?

March 22, 2009
CLI
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This will run top once write the output to a file and exit. The command top can also be run so that it will give multiple reports. top -b -n1 > /tmp/top.txt To run top 5 times and wait 5 seconds between each output the command would be: top -b -n5 -d5 > /tmp/top.txt

FFMpeg Install

March 21, 2009
AppsScripts
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1) Install ffmpeg via admin-ahead.com (http://scriptmantra.info/ffmpeg.html) 2) Register here: http://installers.admin-ahead.com/ (Name, Email, Server IP, Country, Hit Submit) 3) Reply to email 4) Download script to server using wget in /root directory wget http://scriptmantra.info/scripts/AAST_ffmpeg_installer_5.0.7b chmod +x AAST_ffmpeg_installer_5.0.7b ./AAST_ffmpeg_installer_5.0.7b 5) Select FFmpeg install. Setup will now run 6) Flawless install…FTW nice… This installer works well also ffmpeginstall.3.2.1.tar…

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Add SPF Records to all Domains

March 21, 2009
Scripts
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touch spf.sh vim spf.sh select and copy the following code (ctrl+A) #!/usr/bin/python import commands,os,time curdate = time.strftime(“%Y%m%d”) # Just in case things blow up os.system(“cp -Rp /var/named /var/named.backup”) os.chdir(“/var/named”) files = commands.getoutput(“ls *.db”).split(“\n”) for file in files: domain = file.rstrip(‘db’) record = “\n%s IN TXT \”v=spf1 a mx ~all\”” %domain f = open(file, ‘a’) f.write(record)…

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Kick all users other than you from your box and keep them out.

March 21, 2009
CLI
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watch -d ‘w | awk ‘NR==4 {print “/dev/”$2}’ | xargs fuser -k’

Reboot Linux Gracefully When Hung

March 21, 2009
General Info
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alt + print screen/sys rq + R – S – E – I – U – B

Watch a Process

March 21, 2009
CLI
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Watch will run the specified command repeatedly (by default, every two seconds) and display the output so you can watch it change over time. watch -d -n 15 ps auxf | grep cpbackup -d differences -n 15 =#seconds

Installing cfs & bfd

March 20, 2009
Apps
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CSF and LFD are very easy to install and to configure especially if you are using a cpanel & WHM server. Here are the instructions on how to install CSF and LFD. 1) SSH into your server and switch to the root user 2) Switch directories to your download directory, usually /root cd ~ 3)…

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Install htop from source

March 20, 2009
Apps
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Htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. Tested with Linux 2.4 and 2.6. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/htop/htop-0.8.1.tar.gz?use_mirror=superb-east tar -xzvf htop-0.8.1.tar.gz cd htop-0.8.1 ./configure make make install —————————————– Install via YUM: I added the following to dag.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for…

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