Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight.
admin A docker container wasn't sending mail. I'd debugged the connection from the host machine and that was working, but once inside the container, there were no tools available. No mail, no mutt, no traceroute, no ping, no mtr, no netcat … so how to find out if the container could send to the mail server … Read more
I found a need for this once upon a time. It will descend through a Linux directory, get the permissions, ownership details for all the subdirs and then write a script for you to recreate it somewhere else. You use it like this. Script listing
OK, so its not too hard to run htpasswd manually, but if you spend a lot of time in your job doing it, it's nice to have a tool to do it more efficiently. This is a menu driven script, which will make a backup of your file, and suggest a random password, which you … Read more
Got this error message on startup of nginx. There are a lot of places you can change this value so it gets a bit confusing. It could be the user that nginx is running under, (usually www-data) or the process, or it could be set in systemd init file or in security/limits.conf … OK, so … Read more
tmux is super handy for long running commands. Especially if you have a dodgy connection which is likely to break: the command will keep running and you can re-attach to the session to save the day. But as a dyed-in-the-wool bash user, I've kinda got used to being able to scroll up and down my … Read more