HOW TO : Redirect web traffic based on URL patterns in Apache
Apache configuration to redirect traffic to a particular URL based on the pattern in the URL (AKA URI). In this particular example, I want to redirect...
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HOW TO : Log all commands issued in shell to syslog
Inspired from this blog post by Vaidas Jablonskis. This tip has been tested on Redhat and Centos distributions. If you ever wanted to log all the...
Project Uptime : Progress Report 5 : Getting ready for Reddit and Hacker News
A very timely post on Hacker News by Ewan Leith about configuring a low end server to take ~11million hits/per month gave me some more ideas...
HOW TO : Perform OCR on PDF files for free
I had to convert a scanned PDF file into an editable document recently. You can do this using OCR and there is a ton of software...
HOW TO : List files that don't contain a string using find and grep
If you run into a situation, where you need to search through a bunch of files and print the names of the files that don’t contain...
HOW TO : Capture all traffic to and from a host using tcpdump
Quick one liner for capturing traffic destined to and arriving from a host (IP address) using tcpdump and writing it to a file for analyzing later...