Linux Shtuff

With the recent release of Apache web server version 2.0.65, the Apache project has discontinued the maintenance of the 2.0 version branch. The developers have urged users to migrate to current version series 2.2 or 2.4 editions as soon as possible; version 2.4 was released in February 2012.  

Final Term Terminal Emulator Don’t just use your system — command it!   Final Term is a new breed of terminal emulator. It goes beyond mere emulation and understands what is happening inside the shell it is hosting. This allows it to offer features no other terminal can:…

Greetings, cPanel has pushed out an update last night that has a few customers a little bothered/worried. WHM is sending notices from the server that new apps have been registered with (WHM) whostmgr AppConfig. This appears to be a new feature in 11.38.1 Documented information is here: http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/SoftwareDevelopmentKit/AppConfig Overview according to cP: cPanel has a…

From http://www.nelsone.com I recently started playing around with Puppet to manage my current infrastructure of a plethora of linux flavors. After an evaluation using Puppet-Enterprise I was told to see what I could do with the Open Source version. As Puppet-Enterprise is pretty much a ‘no brainer’ install, the open-source version is a different animal….

PuTTY Tray is an improved version of PuTTY. It features some cosmetic changes, and a number of addons to make it more useful and much more fun to use. Originally compiled by Barry Haanstra, now maintained by Chris West (Faux). Minimizing to the system tray (on CTRL + minimize, always or directly on startup) Icons…

MobaXterm is an enhanced terminal for Windows with an X11 server, a SSH client and several other network tools for remote computing (VNC, RDP, telnet, rlogin). MobaXterm brings all the essential Unix commands to Windows desktop, in a single portable exe file which works out of the box. MobaXterm provides useful features for developers, sysadmins,…

From http://vignesh.foamsnet.com Using hash tags to organize bash history We use hash tags all over the place in social networks. We use it extensively on Twitter and Instagram. Facebook recently launched support for hash tags as well. So, in a way, our online life revolves around hash tags. Given that, it’s a really great thing…

Hello, Just a heads up to you tech heads out there that CSF made a few major changes to the firewall data structure. These changes mostly affects the location of where the csf temporary IP block files are located. The csf temporary block files ‘csf.tempban’ and ‘csf.tempip’ are now located in /var/lib/csf/ Below is the…

Here is a quick little one liner to check what the excludes policy on a CentOS cPanel server is: #wget -q http://centos.karan.org/check_excludes.py -O – | python Loaded plugins: priorities, protectbase, rhnplugin main: [‘bind-chroot’, ‘courier*’, ‘dovecot*’, ‘exim*’, ‘filesystem’, ‘httpd*’, ‘mod_ssl*’, ‘mydns*’, ‘mysql*’, ‘nsd*’, ‘perl*’, ‘php*’, ‘proftpd*’, ‘pure-ftpd*’, ‘ruby*’, ‘spamassassin*’, ‘squirrelmail*’] epel – [] rpmforge – []…

UPDATE: This appears to be a bug according to MySQL – http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=69512   “This is indeed a bug, where the build system erroneously and silently started pulling in man pages with the wrong set of copyright headers.” From http://blog.mariadb.org/ It has recently been brought to our attention that the MySQL man pages have been re-licensed. The change…