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erics, November 18th, 2018
I installed an old version of Adobe software on my new Mac and as usual, it installed some daemons that are undesirable. Here is how I got rid of them via the Terminal. Note: Adobe installs daemons in the user context, so do this as your regular user login, not as root. shell> launchctl list […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Adobe, apple, daemon, Disable, howto, Kill, launchctl, MacOS, macosx, Shell, Stop, Terminal, tips, Unload
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erics, September 15th, 2015
The script to check and restart apache…works on CentOS – YMMV! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 #!/bin/bash MAXLOAD=6 check=$(uptime | awk -F’average: ‘ ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘{print $1}’ | tr -d ‘,’) if [[ $check > $MAXLOAD ]]; then /sbin/service httpd stop HOST=`hostname` […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apache, AWK, bash, CentOS, howto, httpd, Load, load average, Restart, Stop, tips, Uptime
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erics, October 12th, 2013
I am tired of various programs taking control of my webcam, i.e. Skype, GoToMeeting and others… After searching for a while I found the following website with two awesome Applescripts, one for Snow Leopard and one for Lion. Open the script in the Applescript Editor, and do a Save As. Choose Application and save someplace […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Camera, Disable, Enable, howto, iSight, Limit, macosx, Stop, tips, turn off, WebCAm
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Author:
erics, October 2nd, 2013
List current iptables entries: iptables -L /etc/init.d/firewall stop ~or~ /etc/init.d/iptables stop ~or~ fwstop.sh 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 #!/bin/sh echo "Stopping firewall and allowing everyone…" iptables -F iptables -X iptables -t nat -F iptables -t nat -X iptables -t mangle -F iptables -t mangle -X iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Disable, howto, IPTables, Stop, tips, turn off, Ubuntu
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