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Mirror a Remote Directory over HTTP

Jan 25, 2014 · 1 min read · oneliners Linux

Different ways to mirror a remote directory: 1wget -r --no-parent http://server/location If there are any files you don't want you can add the --reject option: < 1wget -r --no-parent --reject="tmp*" http://server/location 1curl

Configuring Out-Of-Band Management Interface from In-Band Server

Oct 11, 2013 · 3 min read · Linux Hardware

Most modern x86 servers include out-of-band Management or Lights-out Management systems. These systems offer remote configuration and remote console access to a headless server normally located in a datacenter. These are typically used when first setting up a server, or perhaps when the server is hosed. The company I …

Determining the IP Address of a Server's Out of Band Management

Oct 11, 2013 · 2 min read · Linux Hardware

Nearly all enterprise x86 servers include an out-of-band management interface such as HP iLO, IBM RSA or BMC, IPMI, Dell DRAC, etc. These are used for remotely power cycling, monitoring and what the data centre ops guys, confusingly for me, call KVM access (that's Keyboard Video Mouse not Kernel Virtual Machine!) As …

Broadband External IP Address from Command Line

Sep 16, 2013 · 1 min read · Linux

Just typing "What is my external ip address" into Google is normally the most convenient way to find your external public IP address when you're behind a NAT'd broadband connection. The site ipconfig.me offers an alternative and clean way to get it from the command line, for example for use in a shell script: …

Getting VIM Powerline Working with Putty

Sep 9, 2013 · 3 min read · Development Linux Git

After using vim and vi for more years than I care to remember, I came across the vim powerline plugin for the first time today. What an excellent vim statusline, and now I've been using it myself, I can see why it's so popular (that's a relative term - as in popular for a vim extensions! ) Following the installation …

Integrated Web Serving with BaseHTTPServer

Aug 16, 2013 · 2 min read · Python Linux

These last few days I have been writing a command line reporting program at work. For Linux techs, formatted terminal output works great and is actually their preferred view. However, for managers, you simple must have the eye candy of a GUI. Normally in these situations, I would simply add CGI code and then bundle a …

Who logs in the most?

May 16, 2011 · 1 min read · Linux Bash

I work in a firm with 10s of 1000s of Linux servers. A colleague had been emailed a list of servers and was trying to find out who owned them. At first, I suggested running last to see who last logged in but we realised this probably wasn't the best way to start the hunt. On reflection, the was a high chance that the …