1dbus-monitor --session "type=signal,interface=org.gnome.ScreenSaver" | 2while read MSG; do 3LOCK_STAT=`echo $MSG | grep boolean | awk '{print $2}'` 4if [[ "$LOCK_STAT" == "true" ]]; then 5echo "was locked" 6killall ethdcrminer64 7screen -d -m …

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I need to add a /30 IP to every interface on a switch to enable host based routing in a virtualization cluster. I'm lazy and didn't want to key them all in by hand. So I wrote this script in Pyhton3 It uses a starting interface ID(Assuming that all of the interfaces on your switch are in numerical order) and it uses a …

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I always forget how to mount the subfolder of a CephFS filesystem sudo ceph-fuse -m 192.168.2.9:6789 -r /subfolder /folder/on/my/machine Note: The proceeding / after the -r is important Some great info here on restricting access to specific folders and more notes on mounting …

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Nmap Scan subnet for PTR's When you need to scan an entire subnet for 'research purposes' and check for any associated PTR's we can use Nmap   nmap -R -sL 103.112.200.0/22 > results.txt

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Whats using swap space for file in /proc/*/status ; do awk '/VmSwap|Name/{printf $2 " " $3}END{ print ""}' $file; done | sort -k 2 -n -r | less Who is eating all of my RAM? ps aux --sort=-%mem | head Where are my swap files cat /proc/swaps How to add more swap space 1. Create empty file: This file will contain virtual …

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I use this script on my CA server to create a certificate for each new server we provision. This allows our internal PKI to function. This script creates a certificate then copies it to the Ansible server where is can be deployed to the destination host Obviously you'll need to take the necessary precautions around key …

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Example 1 - Includes some static routes and manually specified IP's auto lo iface lo inet static address 103.90.59.9/32 auto ens3 iface ens3 inet static address 172.2.1.17 network 172.2.1.0 netmask 255.255.254.0 up route add -net 172.2.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 172.2.1.1 up route add -net 172.2.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 …

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Using Ubuntu 18 and tools like glances and iftop would often mangle the output Changing the default Puttty settings 'Connection > Data > 'Terminal-type string' to 'putty' instead of 'xterm' and setting your PuTTY settings under Translation and ensure that you have UTF-8 set as the character set then save this as …

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When backing up photos form my Android phone i found that the phone didn't present as a mass storage device, it would only appear as a MTP\PTP device and the file copy speed was terrible. So some research led me to using the ADB command, you'll need to enable USB debugging before this will work. Find your files 1adb …

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Script #!/bin/bash # Set the enviroment variable so read function knows to seperate on ",". export IFS="," NOW=$(date +"%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M") DATABASES_CONFIG_FILE="/home/bfnadmin/databases.csv" S3_ENDPOINT="https://my-s3-storage.com" S3_BUCKET="s3://sql-backups" TEMP_BACKUP_DIR="backups" while read HOST USERNAME PASSWORD …

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