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…

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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.
I’ve had several attempts at installing the Open Source version of Puppet and getting it enterprise ready. Below are my notes on it’s installation:

First, I started with a clean install of CentOS 5.8. I disable selinux but not the firewall. Then did a ‘sudo yum update’ to bring it up to date.
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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…

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…

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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 for bash power users that # in shell means comment. I usually tend to type long commands and won’t bother remembering or saving them somewhere as it is in the bash history and i can retrieve it by reverse-i-search (Ctrl+R) anytime I want.
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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 most recent change log which includes the directory structure changes for CSF:
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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,…