http://tech.jerkharris.com now with more tasty linux morsels Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:40:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alright, there are a lot of distro zealots out there. If you've worked in IT for any extended amount of time, you will have known at least one or two. You know the type, the guy who tells you that "blank" is the best distro for everything. I'll admit it, ... http://tech.jerkharris.com/2008/10/21/my-feelings-on-operating-systems/ The install process for this is fairly simple. These packages come from the EPEL repositories. EPEL stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux. It is maintained by the Fedora project. So, a big thanks to them! Down to business! wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/perl-Git-1.5.5.1-2.el5.i386.rpm wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/perl-Error-0.17010-1.el5.noarch.rpm wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/git-1.5.5.1-2.el5.i386.rpm rpm -ivh perl-Git-1.5.5.1-2.el5.i386.rpm perl-Error-0.17010-1.el5.noarch.rpm git-1.5.5.1-2.el5.i386.rpm That's all there is to it! http://tech.jerkharris.com/2008/10/02/installing-git-on-centos-5/ Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. I've been working on another project that has been taking most of my time. My girlfriend has been in town the past few weeks visiting as well. So most of my time outside of work is already spoken for. The ... http://tech.jerkharris.com/2007/12/21/no-posts-lately/ A fantastic utility for copying files in a unix based environment is rsync. It will let you copy from one location to another or to another computer if need be. You can do a lot of things with rsync. But lets start out with the basics. Copying locally: rysnc is like ... http://tech.jerkharris.com/2007/12/06/rsync-starter/ Over the years, my music collection has moved from one drive to another to another and so on. Unfortunately, I've lost some data through my own poor copy methods. This has left me with a lot of empty directories. Cleaning these out when you have more than 200 directories to ... http://tech.jerkharris.com/2007/11/21/delete-empty-directories/ This is a nice little script that I use to clean up files and directories with poor permissions. Its great to use in preparation before installing mod_suPHP/PHP suexec. #!/bin/bash # Make sure all files are owned by the correct user. Get rid of file owned by nobody for i in $(ls /home| cut ... http://tech.jerkharris.com/2007/11/17/finding-and-removing-files-with-weak-permissions/ This is easily done by adding two lines to your .bashrc file. HISTTIMEFORMAT="(%m/%d/%y) %T " export HISTTIMEFORMAT Now your bash history will have the date and time that each command was run. 545 (11/05/07) 08:46:14 ssh root@192.168.0.1 http://tech.jerkharris.com/2007/11/06/adding-timestamps-to-your-bash-history/ Here you have the bash_history excerpt from a compromised server. The attacker was lazy enough to not even cover his/her tracks. My night just got a whole lot more exciting due to this though. 311 /usr/sbin/useradd -o -u 0 oracle 312 passwd oracle 313 /sbin/ifconfig |grep ... http://tech.jerkharris.com/2007/10/30/history-of-a-compromised-server/ A big thanks to my good man Shelby over at fauxzen.com for suggesting the SemGeshi CodeFix plugin. It has made my site look way better! http://tech.jerkharris.com/2007/07/30/new-plugin-better-formatting/ I got bored at work the other day and decided to whip up some custom error pages. You can see them for yourself. http://jerkharris.com/400.shtml http://jerkharris.com/401.shtml http://jerkharris.com/404.shtml http://jerkharris.com/500.shtml http://tech.jerkharris.com/2007/07/20/custom-error-pages/