Create Artificial CPU Load on a Linux Server

Run this, which will cause the computer to continuously compress random data: dd if=/dev/urandom | gzip -9 >> /dev/null & To terminate the artificial workload, kill the running job you created.  This assumes you have no other jobs running: kill %1 To check what jobs you have running in your shell: jobs -l

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Setup Database Master/Master Replication on MySQL Server

Starting on DB01 cat /etc/my.cnf [mysqld] log-bin=mysql-bin server-id=1 replicate-wild-do-table=replicateddb.% replicate-ignore-db=test [mysqld_safe] err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid Restart the service to apply the changes service mysqld restart Login to MySQL mysql –u root –p Create replication user account with the host set to the Slave Server’s IP.  Make sure the password is 32 characters or less! mysql> CREATE USER… Continue reading Setup Database Master/Master Replication on MySQL Server

FreeIPA Password Expiry Notification Script for Red Hat Identity Management

Hey there friends, I’ve got a quick’n’sloppy bash shell script that’s fairly useful, if you’re using a FreeIPA identity management domain on CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux and want to notify people via email of when their password is going to expire. The script assumes it’s being run on an IDM server system with access to the following… Continue reading FreeIPA Password Expiry Notification Script for Red Hat Identity Management

Fix CVE-2014-3566 on multiple Apache web servers with Perl

What if you have a bunch of configuration files to update in order to fix POODLE: SSLv3 vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566) ?  If you don’t have a configuration management system to help with this, you could use an easy perl one liner which you’ll see can come in handy in a ton of situations.  Specifically, we’ll be looking… Continue reading Fix CVE-2014-3566 on multiple Apache web servers with Perl

Install mod_security in Apache httpd for CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux

mod_security is an Apache plugin which is a good way to prevent malicious attacks on your web application and even just using the base/default configuration from the EPEL repository rpm package gives a pretty decent rule set and helps with hardening your system. mod_security is all about rule sets and looking for specific types of… Continue reading Install mod_security in Apache httpd for CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux

How To Install The EPEL Repo on CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux 7, 6 and 5

CentOS 7: vmhacks.com]# wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm vmhacks.com]# rpm -Uvh epel-release-7*.rpm CentOS 6: vmhacks.com]# wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm vmhacks.com]# rpm -Uvh epel-release-6*.rpm CentOS 5: vmhacks.com]# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm vmhacks.com]# rpm -Uvh epel-release-5*.rpm Enjoy Mm.,