Month: November 2009

Intrusion Testing

Hi, Here is link to Backtrack’s wiki which list ways of intrusion testing. BackTrack is the most highly-rated Linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is launched directly the external media and is fully accessible within moments. BackTrack functions and performs operations without touching a single file on…


Tail logs using ‘less’

less +F /var/log/exim_mainlog Make ‘less’ behave like ‘tail -f’. Using +F will put less in follow mode. This works similar to ‘tail -f’. To stop scrolling, use the interrupt (CTRL+c). Then you’ll get the normal benefits of less (scroll, etc.). Pressing SHIFT-F will resume the ‘tailling’. To quit, use the interrupt (CTRL+c) and then press…


Web Permissions Script

If you ever recursively chmod public_html to something terrible, this script will restore files back to their typical/default permissions. cd to the public_html directory, and run the command: perl Hit enter, and then paste this code: #!/usr/bin/perl -w sub scanDir { my $dir = shift; opendir (DIR, $dir); foreach my $file (readdir(DIR)) { next if…


Cpanel scripts

Please note: Some of these scripts are free and others are not. I am not recommending or endorsing any scripts or saying that they will work on your server. http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/ http://www.cplicensing.net/scripts.php http://www.rocketdownload.com/scripts/query.php?q=cpanel (4 Pages) http://www.findmysoft.com/scripts/search_result.php?word=cpanel&x=0&y=0&search=Search http://scriptmafia.org/ Here is a complete list of all of the scripts in the /scripts folder from cPanel 11.25.0-E40223 – WHM…


Complete Linux CLI list

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/ Other helpful guides: http://www.linuxguide.it/linux_commands_line_en.htm http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html


Cpanel native SSL failed to start, used stunnel instead

Cpanel native SSL failed to start, used stunnel instead…


Bash script to email random passwords to users

Here is a bash script to randomly generate a password and send it to a user’s email address. It will also write the user’s email address and password to a csv file for importing into your MySQL database via phpMyAdmin. The script assume you have a text file (emails.txt) in your home directory with a…


Rsync Cpanel Server (Cloning)

This script will copy everything necessary for a full cpanel -> cpanel transfer. You need to open the script up and change 127.0.0.1 to the FQDN or IP of the target server. It will first create a key pair and then transfer it to the target server. Root level access is required for this script…


Enable DAG Repo’s

A quick post with instructions to enable DAG’s Yum Repository for CentOS as taken from his FAQ. Installation is simply done by RPM packages, I am only bothering with CentOS (RHEL) 4 & 5 in this example: CentOS 5 / i386: rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm CentOS 5 / x86_64: rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS//rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm CentOS 4 / i386:…


Enable Kill Xserver

In Karmic the restart Xserver shortcut is disabled by default. Enable it thus: 1. In the menu, go to System->Preferences->Keyboard (not Keyboard Shortcuts) 2. Go to Layouts tab, click Layout options 3. Expand “Key sequence to kill the X server”. Check “Ctrl+Alt+Backspace” 4. You’re Done.