Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight.
I fell for this one myself, so I present it here as a cautionary tale. I've been running Linux servers for 30 years or so, and have a muscle memory associated with changing sshd ports. Edit sshd_config to change Port=123 , update firewall to allow port 123, restart ssh, test config from another box to … Read more
Had to create this for a less technical user to manage htaccess, so thought I'd share. Your mileage may vary. Change the location of the default htpass file in the config. You can supply another location in mid script if you have more than one. #!/bin/bash# ConfigurationHTACCESS_FILE_DEFAULT="htpass_test"# Function to display a list of usersdisplay_users() { … Read more
I do understand the reasons for why this change was made, but I simply don't want to have to remember my USB wifi interface's mac address every time I want to reference it, so this is how to turn back to simpler times. Hello eth0 and wlan0. I've missed you. This is just a reminder … Read more
Sometimes I give AI a shot. This was one of the occasions where I did, and it ended up costing me more time that actually trying to solve the problem myself. I had a request to run qdrant database, and I didn't want to do it under docker, due to all the extra nonsense that … Read more
I've been frustrated by this one several times. If you run an nginx server with php-fpm you'll be used to setting php values in the php-fpm pool file. That should supercede any values in php.ini So with some values this works: These all work fine. But if you look anywhere on the internet, it tells … Read more