If you want to free space on Backups you can use find to select a special month: find -newerct "1 Sep 2023" ! -newerct "1 DEC 2023" -delete This command removes files created from 01.Sep.2023 to 01.Dec.2023. ..very useful..
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Howto: Create qrcode image command line
If you need digital bookmarks to share as Pic on social media do: Install qrencode : sudo apt-get install qrencode then as user: qrencode -o qrcode.png 'www.linuxonlinehelp.eu My Blog' Result:
Script DNS Blocker DNSMASQ
If you tested pihole, you perhaps look for a smaller Command Line version? Install dnsmasq by: sudo apt-get install dnsmasq Here DNS Rule Injector Script (copy & paste): blocker.sh # www.linuxonlinehelp.eu 2019 # DNS Blocker for Small Linux with dnsmasq # #!/bin/bash # goto tmp (tmpfs) cd /tmp/ # get URL-Blocklists wget -O blocklist.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Kowabit.txt # get Templates #SET Variables txt='blocklist.txt' IP='0.0.0.0' # set to 0.0.0.0 or to a Webserver with "white Page" showing Text "URL-blocked!! #merge URLs and redirect to wanted IP – Rule creation n=1; while read line; do echo 'address=/'$line'/$IP '>> 02-blocked1.conf ; n=$((n+1)); done < $txt […]
Apache: Count Visits on Console
If you use a Webserver like Apache, you can use a small script to Analyse your Logs. Create a analyse-web.sh Script with: $sudo nano /home/user/analyse-web.sh insert: #!/bin/bash cat /var/log/apache2/access.log | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq -c exit 0 System Output: 1573 www.domain2.de 3568 www.domain3.de .. If you change the “$1” to other value like “$8” you will get the count of touched files or folders! This shows you attacks on single Files by abnormal high counts! You can use cron to run it every 15Minutes and send it to mailbox of a user. And this way […]
WordPress: Change Word on all content sites with mysql
If you run a WordPress Blog or other CMS with MySQL Backend you can easy change one same word or expression on all content sites on the fly Do a mysqldump at first of the current database $ mysqldump -u username -p dbname > dbbackup.sql Login to the MySQL server Console Switch to the Database mysql> use dbname; run command for tests, lists touched posts mysql> SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE (post_content LIKE '%expression%'); Run Replace code to pre, cause i use preformat text plugin for the copy & paste boxes mysql> UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE ( post_content, […]
WordPress: Monitor the Size of the MYSQL Database
If you use WordPress or a other Blog Software with a MySQL Database over years it is useful to do some things regularly: Check the Database Size weekly, that no Skript Kid has found a Backdoor and fills up the Database silent Purge Database Caches with default maintenance tools of the Software Dont forget to create a MySQL Dump Backup weekly with cron To Check the Size login on mysql command prompt do: $mysql -u dbuser -p #Enter Password mysql > use dbwordpress mysql > SELECT table_schema "Data Base Name", sum( data_length + index_length) / 1024 / 1024 "Data Base […]
WordPress: Change User Password manual on mysql prompt
If you don’t want to use Passwords generated by wordpress itself, you can do it manual on a MYSQL Console howto: Login to your Webserver with the Database via encrypted SSH!! Login to the MYSQL Server Conssole with $ mysql -u username -p Enter Password, and change database with mysql>use database-name-of-blog Now Set Password for the User mysql>UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = MD5('NEWPASSWORD-16-DIGITS') WHERE user_login = "THEUSERNAME"; System shows Echo: mysql> ok.. Changed 1 Row.. Quit mysql> exit Logout of SSH