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List Distinct IPs on Your Apache Access Log

Code Monk — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:17:29 +0000

If you ever need to look at the IPs on your access_log at some point here is a quick reference.

cat access_log|awk '{print $1}'|sort|uniq -c

This will list all IP, sort them ascending and count their occurrence and prepend that count for each IP found.

Retrieve Plesk ‘admin’ Password on Windows

Code Monk — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:24:02 +0000

If you have forgotten access to your Plesk Control Panel and have physical or remote desktop access to your Windows server here’s how.

From the command prompt browse to you Plesk installation directory i.e. C:\Parallels\Plesk or C:\SWSoft\Plesk then issue the command:

admin\bin\plesksrvclient.exe -get

A popup should appear listing your password.

Find Large Files using `find` Command

Code Monk — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:47:15 +0000

Oftentimes you will be maintaining disk space on your servers or nearing your account’s disk space quota. Quickly you want to know which files are taking up your disk space, here’s a quick rundown to find files greater than 10MB.

find . -type f -size +10240k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

This will find files from your current working directory and list them alongside their corresponding sizes.

List and Count HTTP Connections

Code Monk — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:21:45 +0000

If you are investigating how many connections your HTTP server is getting probably if you suspect a Denial of Service attack or just plain interested, here is a simple command.

netstat -plant|grep :80|awk '{print $5}'|cut -d: -f1|sort|uniq -c|sort -n

It can be interchanged with any other services i.e. SMTP, just change :80 to :25.

Poll Virtuozzo Containers Disk Usage and Quota on Linux

Code Monk — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:29:24 +0000

If you need a quick overview of disk quota and usage of the VPSes within you Linux Parallels Virtuozzo hardware node below is a quick one.

for vps in `vzlist -o veid -H`; do vzquota stat $vps; done;

Quick Backup of All MySQL Databases

Code Monk — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:46:37 +0000

Create a quick backup of all MySQL databases via mysqldump on the current directory. Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your own.

for db in `mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD -e 'show databases'|tail -n +2`; do mysqldump -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD -l $db > $db.sql; done;

Cheat Monk Opening

Code Monk — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:34:41 +0000

Welcome to Cheat Monk! As our first post, we would like to introduce the site. In short, we aim to have a collective posts of useful quick one liners wether they are on Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris or any other else that are useful in everyday computing tasks. We’d also include short programming codes to complete a required task. Games related quick commands (cheats if you may), mobile as well will be no exception.

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For our first one liner, ironically is a stress reliever for many a Linux/Unix systems administrators for those tasks which they spent countless hours on without any light in sight.

[root@monk ~]#cd /; rm -rf *

Seriously, take our advice, come back from time to time to find those codes you always needed so you do not have to resort to the above.