Today I setup vsftp for local user ftp access. I turned on ‘chroot_local_user=YES’ which essentially puts the ftp user into a vsftp chroot jail. But what happens when you want to access something outside of user’s home directory? What? Symlinks…
This link from the Redhat knowledge base talks all about it. Here’s the list of steps and pointers I had to go through. 1. Make sure that the 8021q module is loaded modprobe 8021q 2. This step is important as…
This page proves there are people out there who forget about the same things I forget. Here’s the POST I wanted to run today. curl -d “platform=CHANNEL&processor_target=CERT&charge_type=PING” http://app01.qa.paygateway.com:31080/Quicksilver/
Objective: I need search and replace a specific text string on multiple files at once. Solution: Using SED in a bash FOR loop to search for the text you want to replace. for a in `find . -name ‘*filename*’`; do…
Top is amongst the most comprehensive and informative process display command in Linux. There’s no reason for a seasoned Linux sysadmin like myself not to know it! Top can display all the information you need to know about processes and…
In my Linux life, I find myself trying to search for files quite frequently. All distributions comes with a very handy command called ‘locate’ which helps you search for the file. What it does is Linux keeps an index and…