So, it turns out that WordPress doesn’t like my little script, and if you want a copy of it, you’ll need to download it with; wget https://www.clug.org/Bashy Some days I just don’t appreciate a CMS as much as I should… #!/bin/bash -i # This script shows some of the features of the Bourne Again SHell…
Category: Software
Backing up MySQL Databases
This is the script I run every morning to back up all of the databases in my MySQL database – it gets every database, including mysql, which has the users and access rights for users. Obviously, you’ll need to modify a few of the variables in the script, but it shouldn’t be difficult. There are…
Meeting-2015-12-19 SSH, offering assistance in a hostile world
If you offer remote assistance to an unknown party, there are security implications that might not be obvious. For you to connect to them, they need to have properly configured quite a lot of stuff, which is the issue. This presentation will go over the security issues, ssh configuration issues, ssh usage, and more! I’ll…
Meeting-2014-11-22
This meeting covered an installation of ownCloud, ending with an exciting software RAID rebuild done live! The linked .pdf file is a complete walkthrough of the build. Thank you to all who attended! ownCloud
How to run a sub-domain of CLUG.Org
Why? Because DNS is a great enabler! Let’s say you want to share some information with the world but you have a regular, dynamic xDSL Internet connection. You start up a web server, open port 80 on your router, find your IP address is 72.49.120.103, then call some friends to let them know that address….
Raspberry Spi
# Insert an SD card into a Linux PC and; sudo fdisk -l # # Disk /dev/sdb: 3965 MB, 3965190144 bytes # 49 heads, 48 sectors/track, 3292 cylinders, total 7744512 sectors # Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes # Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes # I/O size (minimum/optimal):…
Changing the mount point of a partition
Hi CLUG, I have an external backup drive. The partition that has my Linux backup files (via rsync) is recognised as 43a15d01-9f3f-4069-bdab-106832d54ff0/ when I plug my removable drive into a usb port on my computer. I tried to rename the partition. This is what I get: mv 43a15d01-9f3f-4069-bdab-106832d54ff0/ backup/ mv: cannot move `43a15d01-9f3f-4069-bdab-106832d54ff0/’ to `backup/’:…
Mass mailing from the command line!
This is the little script that sent out the messages for the picnic! #!/bin/bash for Each in ` cat CLUGers.txt ` do cat Message.txt | mutt -s “June CLUG meeting” $Each echo $Each sleep 10 done Message.txt is a file in the local directory that contained the body text of the e-mail, CLUGers.txt is a…