centoshero - Initial Server Setup with CentOS 7

Initial Server Setup with CentOS 7

When you first create a new server, there are a few configuration steps that you should take early on as part of the basic setup. This will increase the security and usability of your server and will give you a solid foundation for subsequent...

linux health check script - Shell Script to Check Linux System Health

Shell Script to Check Linux System Health

This script collects system information and status like hostname, kernel version, uptime, cpu / memory / disk usage. Script uses hostname, uptime, who, mpstat, lscpu, ps, top, df, free, bc commands to get system information and cut, grep, awk and...

gping - Gping - A Visual Ping

Gping – A Visual Ping

Ping is one of the most used functions. It is the function that allows to check in a more or less effective way if there is connectivity with a device or Internet access, and detect problems. In this article, we will talk about a tool named Gping...

msg - Send a message to users RDP’d to server

Send a message to users RDP’d to server

There are already 2 users logged on a server via remote desktop protocol (RDP) and We want to ask them nicely to logout so that We can join. We will be using a buil-in utility in Windows called MSG. It is a utility to send a message to a user...

image 9 - Format a USB drive from the Command Line

Format a USB drive from the Command Line

Although we have applications to format USB drives like “gparted” in Linux, knowing the process in the command line is useful when working remotely or working on computers with few resources. The steps as well as the process is...

404 broken link check bash - Bash script to check broken links in a website or 404 messages

Bash script to check broken links in a website or 404 messages

I needed to check a website , because some links doesn’t exist and when you open some web pages  you get a “404”. #!/bin/bash echo "Checking broken links on " $1 echo "Extract all links in the main page..." wget --spider -r ...

mysql backup script - Shell Script to Backup All MySQL databases

Shell Script to Backup All MySQL databases

Here is a simple bash script that I use to backup all mysql databases from the server: #! / bin / bash TIMESTAMP = $ (date + "% F") //backups will be stored in /backup/mysql BACKUP_DIR = "/ backup / mysql" MYSQL = / usr / bin / mysql MYSQLDUMP = /...