Python
A simple script that can browse a directory, and upload to S3 some files matching a regex. The file will be uploaded by respecting the path you have in local. #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os, re import boto from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection from boto.
Linux
Sometimes, you can see that memory is not correctly released once used and some caching can remain. You can see that by using the free command: # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 64458 53397 11060 0 1550 49163 -/+ buffers/cache: 2683 61774 Swap: 9998 35 9963 At
Linux
OVH servers come with a custom kernel provided by OVH. This kernel is compiled with a lots of functions deactivated like: * Virtualization components * Modules support * ... If you need those features, you will probably need to install a standard kernel not provided by OVH. For that, just follow the instructions below.
Linux
Need to move or remove a list of files with a particular extension, a particular filename pattern and/or not changed since a specific date? This can be done by combining an action to perform with the result of a find command. * Moving files called "FILES*.csv" with
Linux
Most of time, we are setting only one (or some) IP to be allowed to access to some pages or services. But it can also be necessary sometimes to restrict access of an URL only for one IP (if you are getting some attacks from a hacker for example on
Linux
You are using an RSyslog mechanism to send your logs to a centralized server, but as soon as the logrotate is executed on the server, no log is sent anymore? I will explain here why this can happen and how to fix it properly. In logrotate, when rotation is happening
Linux
If you want to install some packages using npm and you are getting this kind of error "Warning "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir", that means that system is trying to compile some native libraries with a wrong user and so lead
Linux
For debugging purposes, it's sometimes necessary to debug multiples PIDs at a same time with strace tool. I will take a simple example: PHP-FPM. PHP-FPM is creating several processes depending on its needs, and if you want to perform debugging on it, you can't
Linux
When you are getting some errors from PHP-FPM like "signal 11 (core dumped)" in your logs, you can need to generate some core dumps to understand what's happening. Install packages You first need to install some packages to allow you generating dumps:apt-get install
Linux
Rysslog is allowing to send its logs from a file on a server to a remote server (or online service) that will collect and maintain all logs. Assumed server configuration We will here assume that you have a rsyslog server already running and listening on port 514 (TCP or UDP
Linux
It is possible to secure your communication between several sites (datacenters for example) by using an open-source VPN IPSec on your Linux System. We will see here how to: 1. Set-up a VPN IPSec on Linux with Strongswan (https://www.strongswan.org) 2. Set-up a high availability
Linux
For debugging purposes, it can sometimes be useful to write the results of a command executed at a given time lapse. You can easily monitor a command by using the watch command. By default a watch command is only displaying result, and you have to be in front of to