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File encryption with GnuPG

Thu, 01/20/2011 - 12:59 — sandip

Encrypt file:

gpg -c private.txt

You will be prompted to enter a passphrase twice. The output is a file of the same name with ".gpg" as the extension.

Decrypt via:

gpg private.txt.gpg

By default the encrypted file is binary format with smaller file size. If you need ascii, then use the "-a" option which then outputs as "private.txt.asc".

Plesk imap connections limit

Wed, 01/19/2011 - 16:49 — sandip

By default Plesk IMAP maximum connections per IP is set to 4. If you are using an email client that checks multiple mailboxes, this limit is easily reached.

To increase the limit, edit "/etc/courier-imap/imapd":

MAXDAEMONS=80
MAXPERIP=40

Domain searching with bash

Thu, 01/13/2011 - 17:21 — sandip

Below is a simple bash script that uses the dictionary to go through 3 letter words and does a whois check to see if the domain is available. You probably won't find any of those as all would have been taken. May want to try with 5 or 6 letters instead, in which case change the value of "$count".

#!/bin/bash
# domain_search.sh

# Get a list of 3 letter domains.
for x in `cat /usr/share/dict/words`; do count=`echo $x| wc -m`; [ $count = 4 ] && echo $x; done > domains_list.txt

# Get whois record.
for x in `cat ./domains_list.txt` ; do (whois $x.com | grep -q '^No match for domain') && echo $x; sleep 60; done > domains_available.txt

# Change to lowercase and sort print.
cat domains_available.txt | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]|sort| uniq

gnome logout command

Thu, 01/06/2011 - 14:48 — sandip

Logout using gnome command saving current session:

gnome-session-save --logout

Serving ftp with vsftpd

Thu, 12/23/2010 - 16:32 — sandip

vsftpd can be installed directly via yum and is a straight forward setup:

yum install vsftpd
chkconfig vsftpd on
service vsftpd start

The default vsftpd.conf should be fine to run with. However, it is best practice to disable anonymous access if not being used:

# cat /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf | grep -v "#\|^$"
anonymous_enable=NO
local_enable=YES
write_enable=YES
local_umask=022
dirmessage_enable=YES
xferlog_enable=YES
connect_from_port_20=YES
xferlog_std_format=NO
nopriv_user=nobody
ftpd_banner=OK
listen=YES
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES
log_ftp_protocol=YES
chroot_local_user=YES

For an incoming dropbox only option, use:

download_enable=NO
dirlist_enable=NO

disable logging of images in access log

Wed, 12/15/2010 - 17:15 — sandip

Apache:

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI "\.(gif|jpe?g|png|htc|css|js|ico)$" skiplog
CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/access.log" combined env=!skiplog

Lighttpd:

$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.(gif|jpe?g|png|htc|css|js|ico)$" {
  accesslog.filename = "/dev/null"
}

listing of directories in tree format

Fri, 12/03/2010 - 11:58 — sandip

Below example shows listing of files and directories in tree format including hidden files and directory display depth of 3:

tree -a -L 3

-a : include hidden files
-L : depth of directory tree to display

man tree for more info...

resolve mysql replication error

Fri, 12/03/2010 - 10:39 — sandip

MySQL replication stops whenever there is an error running a query on the slave. This happens so the problem query can be identified and resolved.

Such errors can be skipped as long as you know why the query failed.

For example, when you run a query in the slave accidentally instead of running it on the master. You can skip just that one query that is hanging the slave using:

mysql> SET GLOBAL SQL_SLAVE_SKIP_COUNTER=1;
mysql> START SLAVE;

Get a count of top 10 emails that are in mail queue

Wed, 12/01/2010 - 16:55 — sandip

Below one liner, pipes mailq command to sed, which prints out every 3rd line starting from line 5 capturing only the email addresses and producing report of the top 10 email addresses in sendmail mail queue.

mailq | sed -n '5~3p' | sort  | uniq -c | sort -nr | head

wait_timeout versus interactive_timeout

Wed, 12/01/2010 - 10:25 — sandip

"wait_timeout" is the amount of seconds during inactivity that MySQL will wait before it will close a connection on a non-interactive connection.

"interactive_timeout" is the same, but for interactive mysql shell sessions.

Setting a value too low may cause connections to drop unexpectedly, specifically if you are using persistent connections. Setting a value too high may cause stale connections to remain open, preventing new access to the database.

For wait_timeout, this value should be set as low as possible without affecting availability and performance.

For interactive_timeout, changing this value won't really increase or decrease performance of your application.

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