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Updating the FreeBSD Ports tree, easily…
I’m feeling a bit lazy tonight, and wanted to get an update here, so for a bit I’ll show you a handy little tool to update your ports tree on FreeBSD. After that, I’ll show you the ugly, old method....
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Port to PID mappings, or What process is using that port?
Okay, I’m lazy. I fully admit it. Want proof? Instead of writing up a huge long post articulating something with awesome analogies, I’m only going to talk about one command today. Fuser. Why? fuser is...
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cPanel backup and restore for disaster recovery purposes
I’ve run my share of Hosting operations as a Sr. Admin before and one thing that always *killed* me… Server failures and restorations. Every shop I’ve been in has primarily been a cPanel shop. It’s...
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A Basic IPFW firewall HowTo for FreeBSD…
Of all the different OS’s and the multitude of firewall implementations for each, my favorite has to be FreeBSD’s IPFW ruleset. It’s powerful, super efficient, and most of all, *EASY* to read! So I’m...
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cPanel TCP and UDP ports…
A little post here, more for reference than anything… Here’s a list of the common ports used by cPanel for your firewall building pleasure… TCP 21 FTP 22 SSH 25 SMTP 26 SMTP (Alternative port,...
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XCache 1.3.0 install – with cPanel and CentOS
Hey there! I figure it’s been a little bit, so I’ve gone ahead and decided to update the XCache installer for version 1.3.0, and my favorite control panel, cPanel. This is incredibly easy to do and...
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Something old, something new, something borrowed, something… Orange?
Guys and Gals, Awhile back, I had a list of URLs that were handy to me, as an admin. Mailchecker sites that’d hit up SPF/MX/RBL/header checks, DNS verification sites and gimmicky little things like...
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Setting up internal IPs on SolusVM (with CentOS or RedHat)
Hey there, I ran into a bit of an oddity today, so I figured I’d post it on up here to hopefully save someone else a bit of trouble. We’ve recently been using SolusVM internally for our dev...
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Configuring PostgreSQL on CentOS using Saltstack
Recently I’ve fallen in love with a mass server management system called “Salt” or “Saltstack”. After playing with Chef and Puppet, this thing stands out as truly amazing… For the first time...
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So bit ago I made a post about looping through a set of keys in pillar data to populate an ssh-keys file. I’d like to expand on that a bit. I’ve got a salt state to provide a link to my internal yum...
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