Here’s a way to move your wordpress login page from wp-login.php to (in this case) /blog/secret-login-page with Apache rules. Note this is akin to moving ssh from port 22, you should set up strong authentication, rename your admin user and possibly consider one of the wordpress security plugins before using this. # move WordPress login …
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A command-line utility written in Go to sleep for a random period, then run another command line executable. Typical usage would be to run puppet agent in onetime mode in cron to save resources – the random sleep will help to avoid thundering herd issues at the puppetmaster. rndsleep –randmax=30 –command=”puppet agent –no-daemonize –onetime” would …
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To comment/uncomment a line in emacs, add this to your ~/.emacs ;; comment line (defun comment-or-uncomment-region-or-line () “Comments or uncomments the region or the current line if there’s no active region.” (interactive) (let (beg end) (if (region-active-p) (setq beg (region-beginning) end (region-end)) (setq beg (line-beginning-position) end (line-end-position))) (comment-or-uncomment-region beg end) ;(next-line) )) (global-set-key (kbd “M-#”) …
2 tools for creating RPMs, DEBs, etc easily: fpm & checkinstall
Using this ubuntu guide with 2 changes. 1. Change the configure line to ./configure –libexecdir=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/ –with-mantype=man 2. Instead of editing the sudoers file, create a file under sudoers.d (more modular): echo “Defaults env_keep += SSH_AUTH_SOCK” > /etc/sudoers.d/ssh_auth Also note that the latest version of this module on sourceforge is more recent than linked.
Here’s a cobbler snippet that disables the default repomirror (presuming you are serving the rpms yourself) and adds the updates channel # disable Centos Base Repo (get updates elsewhere) sed -i -e ‘s/^/#/g’ /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo # download updates repo file wget -O – http://$http_server/cobbler/repo_mirror/Centos6-UPDATES/config.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/Centos6-Updates.repo sed -i -e ‘s/\${http_server}/$http_server/’ /etc/yum.repos.d/Centos6-Updates.repo Change the name of the …
Download files using curl or wget. This addon generates curl/wget commands that emulate the request as though it’s coming from your browser allowing you to download protected files directly to a separate machine (e.g. server). via cliget :: Add-ons for Firefox. Very useful for downloading ISOs directly to your server that you have to log …
My favourite colour theme for emacs, ported to emacs 24.
(or Kitty to be more exact, which is Putty on steroids) 1. Set up key authentication to your host with PuttyGen & Pageant (ssh-agent for Putty) – or KittyGen & Kageant if you’re using Kitty. Paste your public key into authorized_hosts on the gateway & destination box. 2. Set up your configuration, IP address in …
On centos 6.5 is broken for me unless I comment out flags = IPv4 in /etc/xinetd.d/tftp, which is best done in the /etc/cobbler/tftpd.template otherwise it will be broken with a cobbler sync