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maxclients.sh Script For Apache

This script attempts to look at Apache memory usage and recommend a stable setting for MaxClients.

 

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getpass.sh Bash Script

Simple bash script for generating random passwords. We didn’t write this and don’t know exactly where it came from.

 

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Apache Watch Script

Here’s a trivial old script that I sometimes use to monitor for rough processes running on the apache user:

 

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How-to Cut With Multi-Character Delimiter

The “cut” command is great for splitting a string on a single character and extracting specific fields. But it will not work with multi-character delimiters. Here’s a simple replacement using awk that will get the job done. Let’s assume you have a string like:

We could extract the value of “arg3” using cut with:

But this assumes that there are always the same number of proceeding args:

Now lets do it with awk:

But what if the args are in different order? The we can use sed:

 

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Cronjob for ClamAV

ClamAV can be useful for things like scanning a web root for viruses. Use this handy script with a cron job to setup nightly scans that send an email report.

Follow the directions on the site to install. We’ve modified the last line of the script so that it will work properly. Comment out the last line in /usr/local/bin/clamav-cron and add the following line to fix portion of the script that sends email. Make sure mailx is installed.

You can use crontab -e to open up the cron editor and add the following entry:

This tells ClamAV to scan /var/www/vhosts each morning at 3am and send an email report.

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