vickistan.com

Using curl to GET a page

The simplest and most common request/operation made using HTTP is to get a
URL. The URL could itself refer to a web page, an image or a file. The client
issues a GET request to the server and receives the document it asked for.
If you issue the command line

curl http://vickistan.com

you get a web page returned in your terminal window. The entire HTML document
that that URL holds.

curl -w %{time_total},%{size_download}\\n -o /dev/null http://vickistan.com
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 25969 100 25969 0 0 14135 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 –:–:– 25509
1.837,25969

curl –form upload=@testfile –form press=OK https://vickistan.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

If you need to pass credentials:

curl -u username:password http://URL

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html

Edit the php file “wp-db.php” (in the “wp-include/” folder of your WordPress installation) and add

$this->query(“set session wait_timeout=600”);

somewhere in the function “___construct” after the $this->dbhost = $dbhost; and before the $this->dv_connect()
statement.

Reference this link if you need more:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/gone-away.html

In order to deliver some accounts locally, you can set up virtual aliases as follows:

1. Add the following line to /etc/postfix/main.cf:
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
mail_spool_directory=/var/spool/mail

2. Create /etc/postfix/virtual as follows:
root root@localhost

3. postmap /etc/postfix/virtual

4. Restart postfix

Note: Make sure that /etc/aliases doesn’t have root’s mail being redirected

strace -s 512 -f lsyncd -pidfile /etc/lsync.lua

browse to https://clouddns.dcx.rackspace.com/zones/search

Enter the account number and click Exact Search

copy the lines from the console to a file called domainlist.txt

domainlist.txt===================

1 View accidentlawyerny.net
2 View acnestories.com
3 View acnewonders.com
4 View aromatherapyrecipe.com
5 View attorneyny.us
6 View attorneynyc.org
7 View bankruptcylawyerny.org
8 View bbbeauty.com

end domainlist.txt===============

browse to https://clouddns.dcx.rackspace.com/scripts/new

click the command you wish to run to get the exact command

for instance edit mx records uses ‘edit_mx_record zone fqdn priority mail_server’

Change the values by running the following command:

perl -pi -e ‘s/^[0-9]+\s+View\s+(.*?)$/edit_mx_record $1 $1 10 mx1.emailsrvr.com/’ domainlist.txt

This will result in a file with the commands to copy into https://clouddns.dcx.rackspace.com/scripts/new. Change the DDI and hit execute, and you should be golden.

Edit /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf as follows:

action = %(action_)s

gets changed to

action = %(action_mw)s

which causes fail2ban to execute an action shortcut that sends mail:

#########section of jail.conf############################################
# Action shortcuts. To be used to define action parameter

# The simplest action to take: ban only
action_ = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port=”%(port)s”, protocol=”%(protocol)s”, chain=”%(chain)s”]

# ban & send an e-mail with whois report to the destemail.
action_mw = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port=”%(port)s”, protocol=”%(protocol)s”, chain=”%(chain)s”]
%(mta)s-whois[name=%(__name__)s, dest=”%(destemail)s”, protocol=”%(protocol)s”, chain=”%(chain)s”]

# ban & send an e-mail with whois report and relevant log lines
# to the destemail.
action_mwl = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port=”%(port)s”, protocol=”%(protocol)s”, chain=”%(chain)s”]
%(mta)s-whois-lines[name=%(__name__)s, dest=”%(destemail)s”, logpath=%(logpath)s, chain=”%(chain)s”]

# Choose default action. To change, just override value of ‘action’ with the
# interpolation to the chosen action shortcut (e.g. action_mw, action_mwl, etc) in jail.local
# globally (section [DEFAULT]) or per specific section
action = %(action_)s

To change the serverinfo password for munin,

htpasswd /etc/munin/munin-htpasswd serverinfo

To test, go to http://IP/munin

HOWTO: Use USB devices in Virtual Machine Manager with QEMU

 <limit POST OPTIONS>
  Order deny,allow
  Deny from all
 </limit>