Category: Scripts

VMware Expand Hard Drive Size and Extend in CentOS 7 Linux

admin • May 30, 2018

One approach to adding space to an existing Linux hard drive that is using Linux LVM is to add space to the drive. This can easily be accomplished in VMware. This has been tested using VMware vSphere Client for Windows with CentOS 7.5 (minimal install). To demonstrate a before and after, here are a few commands that can be used...

Add SMTP STARTTLS Support in Sendmail

admin • June 10, 2016

Configure Sendmail email server to use SSL encryption for sending/receiving email. This is an example of using a CA certificate rather than a self-signed certificate. This article assumes that the CA certificate is already in place and ready to go. Modify the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file. Find the section with similar variables that is commented out and copy this under it. At...Read More »

How to Build the latest mod_jk RPM

admin • April 19, 2016

mod_jk is an Apache module used to connect the Tomcat servlet container with web servers such as Apache. It has come increasingly difficult to find a an apache2-mod_jk-1.2.37-4.1.src.rpm or apache2-mod_jk-1.2.37-4.1.rpm as some of the links are now dead. However, after tracking down a copy of the apache2-mod_jk-1.2.37-4.1.src.rpm, a modification or two to the .spec file along with the official .tar.gz...Read More »

How to Build a Better haproxy RPM

admin • April 7, 2016

There are several RPM builds of haproxy that can be found throughout the Internet. There are GitHub repositories with customized .spec files to build your own RPM. In fact, there is an haproxy.spec file that may be found in the official .tar.gz file under examples. However, here is a unique way to build one as close to the original, haproxy-1.5.4-2.el6.rpm,...Read More »

Using shc to compile a shell script

admin • February 6, 2016

Not being a programmer, I do write a descent shell script from time to time. In the Microsoft world, there are all sorts of script compilers that will compile a batch, visual basic, or any number of other scripts into an executable. A benefit of an executable could be the files portability or even an attempt to obfuscate the code. ...Read More »

Windows Vista Default Folder Template Patch (AutoIT Script)

admin • December 31, 2015

In 2008,I put together several solutions to prevent Windows Vista from automatically selecting a default view, which was generally inconsistent with the folder content. The purpose of this article is to take the first solution of that article that was found on vistax64.com and create a nice little utility using AutoIT. It hasn't been fully burned in but there may...

Vsftpd FTP Server With Virtual Users (CentOS 7)

admin • December 27, 2015

vsftpd ("Very Secure FTP Daemon") is an FTP server for Linux and supports PAM ("pluggable authentication modules"). A virtual user cannot login to the Linux system and is considered more secure than using a "real" user whom can login to a Linux system. This guide offers a script that demonstrates one way to setup a vsftpd server using PAM with...

Automated Scripted Install for Drupal on CentOS7/RHEL7 Linux

admin • October 13, 2015

To get an instance of Drupal running on a fresh and minimal install of CentOS7/RHEL7 is the goal. Here is an automated scripted install for Drupal on CentOS7/RHEL7 Linux. It is not all inclusive. It doesn’t take into accounts a MariaDB password or MariaDB hardening. Just a quick script to get things running rather quickly, preferably on a development environment….