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Exclude 400 client hosts with NFS auto-mounted home directories.
Easily modified for inclusion in your scripts.
This is the SECOND command in a set for five that are needed for a Twitter stream feed.
This command creates variable "b", the so-called "base string" required for oauth in Twitter stream feed requests. (The 256 char limit prevents giving it a better name)
We use five environment variables created by a previous step: id, k1, once, ts and k3.
The five environment variables are created in a separate command, please see my other commands.
For more information on the signature base string, see dev.twitter.com/apps, click on any app (or create a new one) and then go to the "OAuth Tool" tab.
Very effective, use only DNS protocol. The @ part is optional if you already set opendns servers as default ns servers.
from: http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/28047-split-print-path.html
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"
This command generates a pseudo-random data stream using aes-256-ctr with a seed set by /dev/urandom. Redirect to a block device for secure data scrambling.
You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token.
This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use:
`awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'`
You must adapt the command line to include:
* $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one
* TTL for the credentials
connects to host via ssh and displays the live transfer speed, directing all transferred data to /dev/null
needs pv installed
Debian: 'apt-get install pv'
Fedora: 'yum install pv' (may need the 'extras' repository enabled)