Protected: Bash scripts to backup all databases in a MySQL server with the option to exclude some databases.

I want to set up an FTP server and FTP user on my Lightsail instance running Amazon Linux 2, CentOS, Ubuntu or Debian. How can I do this? Resolution Note: FTP transmits all data and passwords as plain text. SFTP is a more secure way to connect to your instance and transmit data. For information on…

To print a list of the messages in the queue, enter: # exim -bp To remove a message from the queue, enter: # exim -Mrm {message-id} To remove all messages from the queue, enter: # exim -bp | awk ‘/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print “exim -Mrm ” $3}’ | bashsuggested following clean command:# exim -bp | exiqgrep -i…

OpenVZ useful commands Here is the list of some useful OpenVZ commands which should be run from the main node : 1. To fetch the consumption of disk for each container in the node along its it’s hostname and ctid vzlist -H -o veid,hostname,diskspace | awk ‘{ printf(“%d\t%s\t%.2f GB\n”, $1, $2, $3/(1024*1024))}’   2. To…

About the TLS Extension Server Name Indication (SNI) When website administrators and IT personnel are restricted to use a single SSL Certificate per socket (combination of IP Address and socket) it can cost a lot of money. This restriction causes them to buy multiple IP addresses for regular https websites from their domain host or…

How to automatically clean up /tmp directory contents in Linux?   Every Linux system has a directory called /tmp which has mounted with separate file system. It has special filesystem called tmpfs. It’s a virtual filesystem and operating system will automatically mount /tmp mount point while system booting. If you want to mount /tmp directory separately as…

Often time, you may need to know which file contains large file size, and delete it to save space. Here’s a code pattern to show you how to find large file size on Linux : 1. File size >= 100MB Find all files that have a size >= 100MB, from root folder and its sub-directories….