MySQL / MariaDB Backup & Archive Script
I am using MariaDB – the open source version of MySQL – and wanted an easy way to backup my databases on a regular schedule without having to do anything when I created or...
Category: Linux
Monitor IPSec VPN Tunnel
I have an IPSec Tunnel built from one of my servers to an integration partner which is used to secure our web service calls. It uses a IPSec, OpenSwan, and Pluto to maintain a...
Install PHP 7.0 (phpng) on CentOS & RedHat
This guide will show how to install PHP 7.0 on RedHat and CentOS Linux. This version of PHP is also known as PHPNG to indicate it is the “next generation” of PHP. Many fundamental improvements...
Extract a tar.xz file on CentOS and RedHat
This guide will show you how to extract a tar.xz file on CentOS or RedHat, and probably other flavors of Linux as well. Traditionally compressed archive files are distributed on Linux systems as tar.gz...
Upgrade wget on CentOS 5
As time progresses some of my VPS machines are starting to show their age running CentOS 5. As CentOS is based on Redhat, the yum repositories often contain older versions of binaries with bugs...
Install logtail on CentOS
The developer of logtail has not made the repository available via yum for quick installation. Even if you don’t want to access logtail from the command line, it is still used by several other scripts...
