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WordPress Update Script – 2.8.6 and WordPress MU 2.8.5.2
New WordPress came out last Friday, Sorry about the delay updating the script. This script will update all instances of wordpress that are not the most current. Run it as root, it will make backups in /root/wp_upgrades of both databases and files in case things go wrong. It will determine if its a WordPress or…
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Small Shell Script for monitoring
A customer wanting to do basic monitoring , i had a google and found the following script which is very handy. #!/bin/bash # # Script to notify admin user if Linux,FreeBSD load crossed certain limit # It will send an email notification to admin. # # Copyright 2005 (c) nixCraft project # This is free…
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One Java init script to rule them all
Need an init script for a Java service? Like tomcat, liferay, or jboss? Regular Linux init scripts often don’t work so well. e.g. Java apps typically want to be run by a particular user (e.g. tomcat or liferay). e.g. They may require a ‘special’ shutdown mechanism (e.g. with Tomcat sending a signal to a particular…
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David’s Handy Scripts – bandwidth usage – disk usage
I thought a useful addition to our blog might be a running series of handy scripts. Just for the sake of things (and because I couldn’t find a better title), I’m calling the series “David’s Handy Scripts”. I’ll get this show on the road with a quick script I put together to track 2 things…
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WordPress Upgrade Script
Heres a little Shell Script I wrote which, if run, will check your entire server for insecure versions of wordpress. If it finds any, it will give you the option to upgrade. If you say yes it will backup the existing sites file and database in /root/wp_upgrade and upgrade it. Please Note: This has not…