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DD Used Space Only Image File Using Gzip Solved

The problem is how to create an img of a disk (or storage of any kind) while not saving the entire unused space – shrink empty disk space with dd. Like many similar problems, I found many posts about how to save the img of a disk and remove empty partitions. Most are obsolete or did not work as specified, which...

Perl 24 Hour Sleep Clock

I searched a lot for all kinds of sleep and wake solutions to find everything but what I wanted. Hopefully this helps someone else. Problem: based on a 24hour clock, sleep after 5pm and wake (go back to work) at 8am. Or pause during non-work hours. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $waketime = 8; # sleep when hour <...

Disable RC4 and SSL3

sudo vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/ssl.conf SSLHonorCipherOrder on SSLCipherSuite “EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384 EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+SHA384 EECDH+aRSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+RC4 EECDH EDH+aRSA !RC4 !aNULL !eNULL !LOW !3DES !MD5 !EXP !PSK !SRP !DSS” SSLProtocol All -SSLv2 -SSLv3 SSLCompression Off

How To Configure exim4 on Debian 9

This setup is for a wordpress server that mail-out submissions on the website and assumes that 1) Outbound only. All mail is sent-out via SMTP. You don't want mail retained on the server. 2) there is more than one recipient, re. one for WordPress form submissions and a webmaster (or root). 3) and you are using Google as your SMTP....

Padre Still Crashes on Debian Linux

The linked post was written in 2012 explaining what I think most users of Padre encounter, and therefore I won’t repeat anything already nicely documented there except to quote “And please do not feed me a junk line about it works on my Linux distribution, I do not care. Pretend I am a normal end user for a moment. If...

Force WordPress SSL HTTPS on Only One Page

RewriteEngine On Options -Indexes Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteBase / # force https for all URLs matching “subscribe.* # otherwise normal http request are unmolested # other methods that force ssl cause 301 redirects on # all pages RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =off RewriteRule ^subscribe https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d ## standard rule but causes redirect loops #RewriteRule . /index.php [L]...

USB Linux Wipe Format Ext2 Filesystem

Find the correct device fdisk -l Unmount the device unmount /dev/sdc Wipe the device (handles bad blocks too) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=4k Format device mke2fs /dev/sdc1 Make a mount point mkdir /mnt/memstick Mount the device mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/memstick

WordPress Draft Crawl by Baiduspider

An interesting log in Apache hosts log (below) surprised me. I saw this URL crawl attempt by what is supposed to be Baidu – I checked – it was. What is so surprising is that the URL is a sentence of a DRAFT I was working on at the moment (screenshot below – notice the draft status bottom right). This...

Find and Kill All Processes One Liner

Brilliant – where you need it – like when you accidentally try to open 8000 html files at once with your browser. sudo kill $(ps aux | grep ‘iceweasel’ | awk ‘{print $2}’) credit for Find and Kill All Processes One Liner – bash using grep and awk

Google Search Parameters Cheatsheet

http://www.google.com/search?q=search+for+this &as_sitesearch=example.com &as_eq=DO+NOT+include+these &prmd=u Turn off personalization &pws=0 Turn off autocomplete &complete=0 Return 30 results per page &num=30 Limit results by country &cr=countryUS &cr=countryDE Specify Language &lang_en – English &lang_de – Deutsch Simulate Button &btnG=Search Disable ads (simulation so that impressions are not counted, links disabled) &adtest=on Find related sites &as_rq=example.com

Perl error for LWP::Protocol::https

Problem with HTTPS in Perl When you see any of the below error messages, the solution is sudo apt-get install libssl-dev Error >> openssl-version.c:2:30: fatal error: openssl/opensslv.h: No such file or directory Error >> Warning: Prerequisite ‘Net::SSLeay => 1.46’ for ‘SULLR/IO-Socket-SSL-2.012.tar.gz’ failed when processing ‘MIKEM/Net-SSLeay-1.68.tar.gz’ with ‘make => NO’. Continuing, but chances to succeed are limited. Error >> t/connectSSL-timeout.t …………...