We’re sharing some example Bash scripts including backups and other methods to simplify the life of a System Administrator.

All HowTo's Ansible & Terraform Automation Linux Scripting in Bash Ubuntu, Mint & Debian Linux

Ansible To Get Linux OS Version Details

This article shows the Ansible playbook used to query target systems to get their version details. Ie, the details obtained from “/etc/*release”. — – hosts: all # remote_user: root # become: yes tasks: – debug: msg: – “ansible_distribution {{ hostvars[inventory_hostname].ansible_distribution }}” – “major version {{ hostvars[inventory_hostname].ansible_distribution_major_version }}” – “version {{

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All HowTo's Cybersecurity Linux Scripting in Bash Ubuntu, Mint & Debian Linux

ClamAV – Find & Move Viruses, Exclude Directories & Notify of Infections

This article demonstrates how to find viruses on your Linux workstation or server, move the virus to a special directory and notify you if a virus was found. In addition, (as an example only) we don’t want to scan the “/var/lib/mysql” directory because that’s where our databases are so we’ll

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All HowTo's Cybersecurity Linux Redhat, Fedora and CentOS Linux Scripting in Bash Ubuntu, Mint & Debian Linux Web Servers

Send SSH commands from PHP 5.6 (php56w)

This article explains how to send SSH commands (SSH, SCP, SFTP) to a remote server using php. In this example we have a working php56w installation with Apache. We’re using CentOS 7. SELinux is enabled. Download the libraries: https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpseclib/files/phpseclib1.0.5.zip/download Unzip the files into a new library directory: # Go to

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All HowTo's Redhat, Fedora and CentOS Linux Scripting in Bash

OpenSSL urgent upgrade notice

The OpenSSL team have released an advisory to upgrade to version 1.1.0c. Read the notice here: “https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20161110.txt”. Redhat’s article can be found here: “https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-7054”. Severity: High TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL crash. This issue

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