Category Archives: Code

Various bits of code. Could be Linux Bash Scripts or wordpress PHP plugins, or anything else in between.

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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Bash Prompt

Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin

For those that are regular Terminal, SSH, and/or Putty users, there will come a time when you want to change the Bash prompt. Here is the new PS1 (Shell Prompt) which you can add into ~/.bashrc if [ "$color_prompt" = … 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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MySQL Backup Script with User Permisions

Posted on January 24, 2011 by admin

This is a usefull script that performs a standard MySQL database dump but includes the functionality to backup users and user permisions in addition to the datain the database. #!/bin/bash # Copyright (c) 2005 nixCraft project # This script is … Continue reading →

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WordPress Hello Dolly -> Rick Roll

Posted on December 1, 2010 by admin

For a little bit of fun a number of months ago I edited the default hello dolly wordpress plugin and changed it to a rick roll. Personally, I’m not of the Hello Dolly generation and it didn’t interest me at … 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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Fun with sudoer

Posted on November 17, 2010 by

As part of our ongoing push to make our servers more secure the tech department decided to lock down the sudo command on our servers by restricting which users could use it and enabling e-mail alerts for unauthorised access. For … Continue reading →

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Empty directory cleanup

Posted on November 15, 2010 by

This script will remove all empty subdirectories within the directory supplied as a command line parameter. i.e. ./CleanupDirs.sh /docs/stuff will remove any empty subdirectories of /docs/stuff. #!/bin/bash   # This script was created by Dale Caon # On the 15th … 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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