fighting the lack of good ideas
I noticed I haven’t updated my previous post on keeping my Let’s Encrypt certs updated since building-out a couple new servers. systemctl stop httpd.service /bin/certbot renew –preferred-challenges http-01,dns-01 –must-staple systemctl start httpd.service systemctl restart postfix Not a big change, but one worth making If you haven’t installed certbot yet, you should
Last year I posted a simple script for keeping your Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates current. In conjunction with my last post sharing the “best” SSL configs you can use with Apache on CentOS, here is the current state of the cron’d renewal script I use. systemctl stop httpd.service systemctl stop postfix ~/letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto -t -n –agree-tos –keep…
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I had need to automatically process emails to a specific address to pull attachments out, and this is how I did it: $ yum install mpack $ cat extract-attach.sh #!/bin/bash rm -rf ~/attachtmp mkdir ~/attachtmp mv ~/Maildir/new/* ~/attachtmp cd ~ munpack ~/attachtmp/* rm -rf ~/attachtmp $ crontab -l */5 * * * * ~/extract-attach.sh Why,…
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Recently came across a seriously funky issue with one of HP’s products (don’t laugh – I know there’s loads of funkiness in HP tools). HP Cloud Service Automation (3.1) allows you to schedule requests in the future. It also allows you schedule end dates for subscriptions. That’s neat. Here’s the problem: if you delete a…
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