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Posted on February 5, 2019November 25, 2020 Linux SysAdmin

Useful Commands

A list of commands / references I’ve found useful. Also see my old wiki page. stdbuf – Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its...

Posted on September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 SysAdmin

bandwidth measurement using iperf

I wrote about using netcat to measure bandwidth between servers which works perfectly well in a minimal sort of way (and in particular between servers...

Posted on September 12, 2017September 13, 2017 Software Development SysAdmin

Joining log lines with sed

It’s often the case when analysing system logs that you want to create a summary bringing together data from different lines of a log –...

Posted on August 7, 2017August 7, 2017 SysAdmin

Conference, ChromeBook, A VM and Me

I’m at a conference, I have my ChromeBook (vanilla, no local linux installs or any such thing), I have internet and I’ve set up a...

Posted on July 10, 2017August 1, 2017 Security SysAdmin

Which ssh publickey was used to access an account

When you have more than one public key set up to be able to access a single account (ie more than one public key listed...

Posted on March 2, 2017March 2, 2017 SysAdmin

bandwidth measurement using netcat

For plain bytes/second bandwidth testing – ie without taking things like encryption overhead and compression improvements into account – the netcat command-line utility is pretty...

Posted on August 9, 2016August 9, 2016 Software Development SysAdmin

/usr/bin/base64 – copying and pasting code / patches betweeen terminals

The Scenario A couple of terminals open, connected to a mix of your own workstation, local development servers and remote servers running on a different...

Posted on July 18, 2015July 27, 2015 SysAdmin

Getting WordPress Up and Going

Setting up WordPress server there were a couple of minor wrinkles to sort out. I’ve run a blog before before and that fell by the...

Posted on July 18, 2015July 27, 2015 Security SysAdmin

Protecting Joomla : User-Registration Spam Relay

The Problem: A Default Setting By default user registration is enabled. It’s important to realise that even though links to the user registration page may...

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