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erics, November 19th, 2019
All credit to Graham Walters for this excellent plugin and post, upon which this post is based – thank you, sir! https://grahamwalters.me/lab/disable-wpautop-on-specific-postspages/ Recently, a client was having problems using a plugin called by a shortcode. As it turned out, the JavaScript embedded in the returned content was being broken by the WordPress auto-paragraph feature known […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: add_filter, Auto-Paragraph, autop, Disable, Filter, howto, Page, POST, Prevent, remove_filter, Stop, tips, turn off, WordPress, wpautop
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Author:
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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Author:
erics, September 15th, 2015
The script to check and restart apache…works on CentOS – YMMV!
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#!/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` echo $HOST | mailx -s "$HOST load alert - apache STOPPED by cron script" load.alert@your.domain sleep 300 /sbin/service httpd start echo $HOST | mailx -s "$HOST load alert - apache STARTED by cron script" load.alert@your.domain fi |
Add to cron * * * * * /root/restart_apache_if_load_hits_threshold.sh >> /var/log/restart_apache_if_load_hits_threshold.log 2>&1
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apache, AWK, bash, CentOS, howto, httpd, Load, load average, Restart, Stop, tips, Uptime
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Author:
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
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#!/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 iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT |
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Disable, howto, IPTables, Stop, tips, turn off, Ubuntu
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