DNSBLS.py

March 4, 2013
EMail

Link to dnsbls.tar.gz DNSBLS – An easy-to use DNS blacklist checker. Requirements: Python 2.7.3 Written by: MadsRC @ 2012 – Released under the GNU GPLv3 ————————– DNSBLS came into existence as I had a need to regularly check certain mailserver for DNS blacklisting. To use the script, simply execute it. First timers are encouraged to…

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sshuttle

February 21, 2013
SSH

  sshuttle on github What is sshuttle? Basically, it’s a Python app that uses SSH to create a quick and dirty VPN between your Linux, BSD, or Mac OS X machine and a remote system that has SSH access and Python. Written by Avery Pennarun and licensed under the GPLv2, sshuttle is a transparent proxy…

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Add Two Factor SSH Authentication With Authy

February 20, 2013
SSH

  From blog.authy.com This is an excellent tool to implement 2 factor authentication on your server. Granted you will need your phone close by in order to login but if you have ever used RSA, this will be very familiar to you. You will need to sign up in order to use this. Once you…

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Terra Terminal

February 11, 2013
CLI

  From webupd8.org Terra is a drop down terminal emulator with support for multiple terminals in one window. Terra is a Python / GTK3 drop-down terminal emulator similar to Guake or Yakuake, which shows up from the top of the screen when you press a keyboard shortcut, like the console used in games such as…

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Cloud Storage for Linux

February 4, 2013
General Info

  From compilr.org One thing they forgot to add is OS compatibility Dropbox:- Dropbox is best cloud storage service which have very elegant user interface and comes with client apps to sync your data on the go. – linux client available GoogleDrive:- Most trustable cloud storage service provided by google – no linux client SkyDrive:-…

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New cPanel EasyApache 3.18 Information

February 3, 2013
cPanel

  Hello folks! As of yesterday, cPanel pushed out the new EA 3.18 build. This is now live in 11.36 and 11.34 (and most likely every other version, as EA seems to update regardless of cPanel version.) Also of note, if the server does update to 11.36, you are not able to downgrade now. It…

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cPanel 11.36.0.2 and CSF issues

January 30, 2013
cPanel

  From configserver.com cPanel v11.36 has now entered the CURRENT tree and you will notice that most of your addon perl scripts failing. You can resolve this easily with our addons by reinstalling them. We have provided a simple script that can do this for you that we posted previously. This has to be done…

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Mail and FTP server settings updated incorrectly by cPanel

January 29, 2013
cPanel

  Hello interwebers! Recently, we saw a number of issues regarding a failed cPanel upgrade that involved the Mail and FTP server. It looks like an incorrect value was updated in the cpanel.config file for the mail server and FTP server. In order to correct this: 1) Login to WHM 2) Change mail server to…

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Database Name Prefix #mysql50#

January 29, 2013
MySql

  We recently ran into an issue in which after a migration, several of the clients db names were prepended with the #mysql50# prefix. The db names were formatted as: “#mysql50#dbname”, where it used to be just “dbname”. The clients previous version of MySQL was 5.0 and the new servers MySQL version was 5.1. Evidently,…

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WordPress asking for ftp username and password on update

January 28, 2013
Wordpress

  I had a client ask how to remove the request for the ftp username and password each time an wordpress update was requested. To remove this, just add the following information to your wp-config.php define(‘FTP_USER’, ‘username’); define(‘FTP_PASS’, ‘password’); define(‘FTP_HOST’, ‘ftp.example.org:21’); voila! No more asky 🙂