Recent content by mark edwards

for fun i spun up a nice fresh C7 and ran the cloudLinux installation script. 30 seconds of work, 30 minutes of waiting, reboot... viola - cloudLinux!

UPDATE: its now working by eliminating that so-called "hack" - very interesting.

hello - i am trying to use mailx to send an attachment. unfortunately, the mailx documentation seems to be inconsistant. for example, the only way i have found to access google smtp mail is using Notice uppercase "A". Using the uppercase "A" is not documented in very many places from what...

What do you think about the idea of running supposedly one script to do a conversion to CloudLinux?? it sounds too good to be true.

scratch what i said earlier - it appears that cloudlinux looks VERY promising. supposedly the company is making a large investment in trying to pick up the CentOS people. conversion looks surprisingly easy. from what little i have seen, it looks about as simple as moving from Mysql to...

this might sum up what is happening:

from Webmin/Virtualmin: https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/centos-8-lifecycle-end-2021/108483/30 I think we should learn from this and keep away from ALL the big companies, being Oracle, IBM, CloudLinux or Canonical. They will always sooner or later make a choice in their financial interest and...

hello - it appears that Centos8 is dying even before it begins, and is being replaced with a "Centos-Stream" service. from what little i know about it, this appears to means that updates will happen automatically, and stability may no longer be an assumption. has InterServer considered this...

due to overwhelming demand, i have made several improvements. now i look for ALL text files but exclude the log files: #! /bin/bash -w # # sha256Sum.bsh # # echo ' '; echo -n 'starting:'; date; # # # #...

hello all - once in a while, i have found a rogue unauthorized script that somehow landed on my server. (probably because of WordPress) so after John Q kindly introduced me to the sha256sum command, i thought about a way to monitor activity. this is what i came up with (below). i thought i...

thanks- you would think (or i would think) that the webserver would be easily able to detect this and do this for us, or at least throttle back any repeated IP address.

its now in my /home/mark/ directory (n1.php.gz) and also attached (please first rename .zip to .gz)

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hello - this morning i was alerted to a couple of rogue php scripts that mysteriously showed up in two places. has anybody else seen a script called "n1.php" show up somewhere? also, is there any source where i can "post" the script for further examination? i will see if ClamAV has...

ahhh here is a little gem that gives me nightmares: https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=75228 it would appear the latest GRUB update corrupts the boot process, although this is probably fixed by now. i cannot imagine a better way to ruin the beginning of a new week than to try to...