Author Archives: michaelkubler

About michaelkubler

Michael Kubler was the Technical officer for ANAT during 2010. He is a Linux system admin, PHP programmer, and innovative geek who wants to change the world using disruptive innovation.

Link Lint (Broken HTTP links) using Parallel processing

Posted on March 3, 2011 by michaelkubler

This script is designed to check many different websites for broken links at once and uses a multi-process approach to speed up checking times. #!/bin/bash # This script was created by Michael Kubler # On the 26th of May, 2010 … Continue reading →

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Create Site Script

Posted on February 9, 2011 by michaelkubler

This is one of the most comprehensive bash scripts I’ve ever written. Over 760 lines of code, but it allows an Ubuntu System Admin to create a new Website, Mailman mailing list, FTP account and/or WordPress Blog by typing an … Continue reading →

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SugarCRM Soap v2 Modules and Link Fields lister

Posted on November 24, 2010 by michaelkubler

Here at ANAT we use SugarCRM. A reasonably good, open source and free Customer Relations Management System which is used to keep the membership database information, send out monthly digest emails to subscribers, do document control, and much more. Unfortunately … Continue reading →

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MySQL Backup and Rsync Script

Posted on November 15, 2010 by michaelkubler

As part of running a Web server, in this case a LAMP (Linux Apache, MySQL, PHP) server, you need to ensure you have a good backup system. As per the Tao of backup, you need something that allows you to … Continue reading →

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Usefull Aliases

Posted on November 11, 2010 by michaelkubler

Here is a list of useful aliases used by the ANAT Tech department. Please feel free to use these as appropriate : alias aRestart=’sudo apache2ctl -k restart’ alias acs=’apt-cache search’ alias agg=’sudo apt-get upgrade’ alias agi=’sudo apt-get install’ alias agr=’sudo … Continue reading →

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The Tao of Backup

Posted on October 14, 2010 by michaelkubler

This is a great way of learning the 7 lessons to reliable backups (just ignore the tiny amount of outdated advertising). http://www.taobackup.com/ Coverage — Backup everything you can Frequency — Backup as often as you are making changes Separation — … Continue reading →

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