Author Archives: Spechal

Linux Kernel – Unknown target with make rpm or rpmbin-pkg

If you get the error saying “–target: unknown option”, install the rpm-build package and retry. sudo yum install -y rpm-build make clean make rpm Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet … Continue reading

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Varnish init script

*To update with more useful information* Bash script to handle Varnish start, stop, restart and reload. Built after Varnish 3 was compiled from source. #!/bin/bash   # description: Varnish Start Stop Restart   # processname: varnishd   # chkconfig: 234 … Continue reading

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Apache memory used per process

*To update with more useful information* ps -ylC httpd –sort:rss | grep -v RSS | awk ‘{print "Proccess "++n" is using "$8/1024"MB"} {sum+=$8}; END {print "\nTotal Memory Used: "sum/1024/1024"GB"}’; Output: Proccess 1 is using 37.1914MB Proccess 2 is using 118.828MB … Continue reading

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Very simple MySQL backup bash script

This code backups up mysql databases and gzips them into the current working directory. If you want to backup the mysql table, remove it from the for loop. #!/bin/bash usage(){ echo “Usage $0 <mysql_user> <mysql_password> [host]” exit 1 } if … Continue reading

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Installing php-ffmpeg on CentOS 5.x

This can be a pain due to a bug in the ffpmeg_frame.c file … here are the commands to get up and going yum -y install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg-php/files/ffmpeg-php/0.6.0/ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2/download tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.6.0.tbz2 sed -i ‘s/PIX_FMT_RGBA32/PIX_FMT_RGBA/g’ ffmpeg-php-0.6.0/ffmpeg_frame.c cd ffmpeg-php-0.6.0 && … Continue reading

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Common Power Amp Resistance Watt Formulas

P is Power, also known as Volts, also known as Electromotive Force (EMF). I is Resistance, measured in Ohms E is Amps, also known as Current W is Watts, the multiplication of Power and Amperes. kW is kilo-Watts, also known … Continue reading

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Plaintext Offender : BidVertiser

If you have an account with BidVertiser, your password is stored in plain text and emailed back to you when you request it. This also means customer service can look up your account and get your password. I informed them … Continue reading

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Search / Replace in files with Linux

I used this command to search over some Apache 2 vhost files to change them from port 8080 to port 80 with Debian. find /etc/apache2/sites-enabled -name “*com” -exec sed -i ‘s/8080/80/g’ {} \; Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend … Continue reading

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Low Level Format Disk Drive with Linux

Doing a log level format with linux is super easy. Make sure the drive you want to format is not mounted and determine the device in /dev/ i.e. /dev/sdb Enter the following command to turn all the bits on the … Continue reading

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Use HackIt and Revolution ROM to sexify your HTC Inspire

Got an HTC Inspire 4G? Tired of all the bloatware and running apps. Tired of have to kill those apps over and over? Root your phone (root is the superuser account in Linux, which Android runs on)! This voids all … Continue reading

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