Linux

Custom repo example for RHEL8

This post includes some quick instructions to setup an Apache2-homed yum/dnf repo on and for RHEL8. Install Apache2 and createrepo: Start Apache2: Prepare directory with custom RPM(s): Create the repo indexing files: Now the repo should be “live”, but we need a repo file to reference it from clients. We will create and test a […]

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LightSail VPS WordPress notes

I recently moved a couple WordPress-based websites from an older Amazon Linux 2 based LightSail VPS to a newer Ubuntu 22 based VPS. These are my notes in case I want to refer to them later (with some info redacted for posting publicly). Ensure you can access and edit the domain records since the IP

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Bash – Launch new terminals

A simple example to launch terminals (gnome-terminal) with bash. This example launches 4 terminals; each monitoring the system in a different way. #!/bin/bash # [Eaxample] Helper script to launch CLI apps # Created to use gnome-terminal (e.g. instead of pterm, etc) ROUTING_TABLE_CMD=”watch -n 30 netstat -r” DISK_USAGE_CMD=”watch -n 60 df -h” ACTIVE_PROCESSES_CMD=”top -a” MEMORY_UTILIZATION_CMD=”watch -n

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Simple website backup script

I have used variation of this backup script for quick backups of typical LAMP stack websites (e.g. based on Drupal or WordPress). This saves the database along with the files into an archive… Depending on the website, there may be various non-web-accessible (private) directories to include in the script as well. Once the script is

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