Bart Dorlandt - BAMweb.nl

1. Ubuntu 10.04 server installation
(Computer/Linux)

... plugin. Subversion to have a versioning system on your scripts (like CVS) It also delivers some security: rootkit check tool by rootkit hunter denying access from unwanted system with the ...

2. mod_auth_mysql on Ubuntu 64bit
(Computer/Linux)

... install with build-dep: $ sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev (could be different for your system) Get devscripts package to make this all much easier: $ sudo apt-get install devscripts (installs ...

3. Changing locales in Ubuntu
(Computer/Linux)

... the locales are specified my scripts make sure it exists. My root .bash_aliases has the following at the end of the file: # add "nl_NL.UTF-8 UTF-8" to /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local if [ ! "`cat ...

4. scripts in /etc/cron.d
(Computer/Linux)

I had put some scripts in the directory /etc/cron.d but they just wouldn't be started... after a bit of searching I found the answer. Scripts in this directory cannot end on something like .xx (.pl or ...

5. rotation of mail.log weekly instead of daily
(Computer/Linux)

... --weekly -s mail.log) before the restart syslogd command, add the following line savelog -g adm -m 640 -u $ -c 4 /var/log/mail.log >/dev/null This will do the trick. Now you can use other scripts that ...

6. Ubuntu 8.10 server installation
(Computer/Linux)

... your scripts (like CVS) It also delivers some security: rootkit check tool by rootkit hunter denying access from unwanted system with the use of denyhosts Security / tools / connectivity ...

7. OpenBSD Mailserver
(Computer/BSD)

... apache will be described later at bootscripts. In these examples I have use the user and password vmail. You may change this to whatever you like. Also you can change the name of the database. I've used ...

8. Rename without rename
(Computer/Linux/BSD scripts)

Here is a one-liner to rename everyfile in the current directory without using the command rename. (this command isn't available on OpenBSD, so I had to use this solution) for i in ./* ; do mv ...

9. floppydisk errors
(Computer/Linux)

... you have to do. Open file called /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist: vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist Listing a module (driver name) in this file prevents the hotplug scripts from loading it. Usually ...

10. Unison
(Computer/Other)

... specific output. @reboot sleep 20; /home/bart/scripts/backup/unison.sh > /tmp/unison-output.log 2>&1 0,15,30,45 * * * * /home/bart/scripts/backup/unison.sh > /tmp/unison-output.log ...

11. libWWW perl library, scriptkiddies denied
(Computer/Joomla)

... scripts: If you aren't using your .htaccess file yet, move your htaccess.txt to .htaccess mv htaccess.txt .htaccess open your .htaccess file and add the following lines to the end.   ...

12. Convert WMA to MP3 with a nautilusscript
(Computer/Linux)

Today I learned how to use a script in nautilus to convert wma files to mp3 files. I found this howto. Open a Terminal Type: cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts wget http://www.bamweb.nl/images/stories/computer/linux/convert_wma_mp3.sh ...

13. Burn
(Computer/Linux/BSD scripts)

Empty cd #!/bin/sh cdrdao blank --device /dev/hda --driver generic-mmc eject Empty dvd #!/bin/sh mkdir ~/leeg growisofs -quiet -Z /dev/dvd -R -J ~/leeg rmdir ~/leeg dvd backup ...

14. Mount, NFS, Samba
(Computer/Linux/BSD scripts)

I use this script with the IF statements because I use subversion to keep control of my scripts and use different machines which do the same tasks.   NFS #!/bin/bash method1() {   ...

15. Image scripts
(Computer/Linux/BSD scripts)

Rotate image files #! /bin/sh DEGREES=$1 if [ "$DEGREES" = "" ] ; then   echo "Use the script as described below"   echo "~/script/image/rotate.sh [value]." else   mkdir ...

16. For loop, find, executing scripts, clean empty directories
(Computer/Linux/BSD scripts)

... resize. This script can be found here. for x in `find /var/www/upload/foto/albums -type d` ; do cd $x ; \     /home/bart/scripts/image/resize.sh 800  ; done Go into every ...

17. Newsyslog for Apache
(Computer/BSD)

... /root/scripts/rotate-apache.sh newsyslog.apache.conf # logfile_name          owner:group     mode count size when  flags /var/www/logs/error_log                                 644  3     *    $M1D0 ...

18. WPA_supplicant
(Computer/Linux/BSD scripts)

I used this script for FreeBSD and for Linux Ubuntu 6.06. Since I use 7.04 with the Network manager Applet I haven't been using this script anymore. Also because I don't have FreeBSD no more. Here ...

19. Using scripts at boottime
(Computer/Linux)

These commands can be used to start scripts at boottime. You see a script in the next section about cdrom group rights. I want to change those at boot time. This is what you do. Make sure you have given ...

20. Linux/BSD scripts
(Category)

This will be my dumpbox of all kind of scripts I created. Use it to your advantage!!! To have the scripts on every computer I want I use Subversion. Subversion is actually a version management ...