Covering tips that I find usefull
Quickly get backup drive attached on OVH.
OVH offer a backup service that can be connected via CIFS, FTP and NFS. Getting it connected via NFS is fast on Linux. These instructions […]
Linux Admin
Quick way to install php modules.
Doing each line individually is a pain. Here is a handy shortcut. Start with the usual apt install php8.x- Then include each module name separate […]
Creating a wildcard DNS lookup for .local pointing to 127.0.01
To allow you to create dynamic on the fly dev hosts. This is part of a bigger post coming soon.. The end goal is to […]
Migrating a site to a new server and avoiding DNS propagation delays in Plesk
Unlike a firewall port forward which does a whole server, this tip only works on a virtual host by virtual host bases. When you change […]
A quick fly through systemd services (systemctl)
systemctl is-enabled SERVICE-NAME Check if a service is enabled or disabled. systemctl status SERVICE-NAME Check if a service is running, stopped, enabled, or masked, and […]
Debian 11 uses Joe for visudo how to exit and how to change it to vi.
I have never used joe as an editor so when I ran visudo on a fresh install of Debian 11 I got stuck. I didn’t […]
Preventing emails going out from your development environment.
This is just a short one. In /etc/postfix/main.cf Add the following line at the bottom. virtual_alias_maps = static:<your_username> Then in Thunderbird you can collect local […]
Extend the life of your Rasberry Pi SD card.
This is a simple one. Continuously writing logs to a Pi SD card will reduce it’s life span. Simply add these lines to your /etc/fstab […]
Attacked by an Amazon EC2 hosted botnet (Part 2) DNS server under attack.
So earlier this evening things started to slow down again and upon investigation discovered the attackers were now hitting my DNS servers. I applied the […]
Attacked by an Amazon EC2 hosted botnet.
One of my servers was struck by a password brute forcing attack from hundreds of IPs. This was initially mitigated by adding a new fail2ban […]