Setting HTTP Proxy for SVN

Edit the servers file

/etc/.subversion/servers

and set the proxy server and port.

Uncomment and change the lines necessary:

[global]
# http-proxy-exceptions = *.exception.com, www.internal-site.org
http-proxy-host = yourproxy.server.com
http-proxy-port = 8080
# http-proxy-username = defaultusername
# http-proxy-password = defaultpassword
# http-compression = no
# http-auth-types = basic;digest;negotiate
# No http-timeout, so just use the builtin default.
# No neon-debug-mask, so neon debugging is disabled.
# ssl-authority-files = /path/to/CAcert.pem;/path/to/CAcert2.pem

If you get some error like this:

svn: /etc/.subversion/servers: 148: Option expected

then it means that you have a space at the start of the property which you have un-commented. Make sure that there is no space in the beginning of the property in the servers file.

Update mysql table records, which contain umlaut

Use your database and run this MySQL command for your desired Table:

UPDATE YOUR_TABLE SET YOUR_FIELD = REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(YOUR_FIELD,'ä','ae'),'Ä','Ae'),'ö','oe'),'Ö','Oe'),'ü','ue'),'Ü','Ue');

Rename files- & directories-name which contains umlaut

I would like to change the file name, which contains umlaut, with normal characters:

For example: ü with ue or Ä with Ae.

Here is my commands:

for i in `find -name '*ü*'`; do mv $i `echo $i | sed 's/ü/ue/'`; done
or
for i in `find -name '*Ä*'`; do mv $i `echo $i | sed 's/Ä/Ae/'`; done

and the following command for the directories:
for i in `find -type d -name '*Ä*'`; do mv $i `echo $i | sed 's/Ä/Ae/'`; done

Bash script - Delete characters before or after a pettern from string

I have this string:

MyString="This is a Test. Isn't it? Yes, it is."

I want to delete all characters after "?":

echo $MyString | sed -e 's/?.*//g'

the result is: This is a Test. Isn't it

now I want to delete all characters before "a":

echo $MyString | sed -e 's/.*a//g'

Resut: Test. Isn't it? Yes, it is.

Bash script - Removing duplicated lines from file

Run this command:

awk '!x[$0]++' source.txt > target.txt

Using PHP/oci8 to Connect to Oracle Remote DB

With this short PHP script, you can see how I connect to a remote Oracle DB:

<?php

//Connect String
$db="(DESCRIPTION=

     (ADDRESS_LIST=

       (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)

         (HOST=REMOTE_DB_IP)(PORT=XXXX)

       )

     )

       (CONNECT_DATA=(SID=ORACLE_SID))

 )";

//Connect to DB
$conn = oci_connect('USERNAME','PASSWORD',$db); 


//Run a sample query
$s = oci_parse($conn, 'select * from DB_TABLE');

oci_execute($s);

oci_fetch_all($s, $res);

echo "<pre>\n";

var_dump($res);

echo "</pre>\n";


//Close DB Connection
oci_close($conn);


?>

Installing OCI8 On Debian

OCI8 is an extension for providing APIs to Oracle database management system. You need Apache, PHP and Oracle Instant Client.

Register and Download Oracle Instant Client. Choose your platform compatibility (in my case x64), if the package not compatible with your platform then installation process will failed. At least, we just need Basic and SDK. Then put on /opt/oracle or whatever directory did you liked:

mkdir /oracle_client

mkdir /opt/oracle

cd /opt/oracle

 unzip instantclient-basic-linux.x64-11.2.0.3.0.zip

 unzip instantclient-sdk-linux.x64-11.2.0.3.0.zip

 mv /opt/instantclient_11_2/* /oracle_client/

 Create symbolic links for dinamic library and Add instant client to system ld:

cd /oracle_client

ln -s libclntsh.so.11.1 libclntsh.so

ln -s libocci.so.11.1 libocci.so

Compiling OCI8 and enter instantclient,/oracle_client when you are prompted:

pecl install oci8

Enable oci8 extension on php.ini or add it to php Conf:

vim /etc/php5/conf.d/oci8.ini 

and add this line to file:

extension=oci8.so

then restart apache2 web server.

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Then check phpinfo() and the successfull installation should be :

When you get this error:

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626/oci8.so' - libaio.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

you should install libaio:

apt-get install libaio1

Get an IP address out of fail2ban jail

Removes an iptables rule created by fail2ban. This example shows how to remove a rule for an IP from the fail2ban-apache chain. Can be used for any service monitored by fail2ban:

 iptables -D fail2ban-apache -s IP_ADDRESS_TO_SET_BE_FREE -j DROP

or remove from fail2ban-SSH jail:

 iptables -D fail2ban-SSH -s IP_ADDRESS_TO_SET_BE_FREE -j DROP

Resize a VirtualBox hard disk (.VDI) in Linux

I would recommend backing up your current vdi file before doing this!

Run this command in terminal:

VBoxManage modifyhd YOUR_HARD_DISK.vdi --resize SIZE_IN_MB

Example:

VBoxManage modifyhd MyWindows7.vdi --resize 20000

It resizes your hard disk to 20GB. Start your guest machine and resize the partition with your suitable tool. (for example: Gparted for Linux or Windows Partition Manager for windows)

Block a message by a specific email SUBJECT - PLESK

Custom filter rules can be defined in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, for example:

header CUSTOM_SUPERSPAM Subject =~ /.*spam subject.*/i

describe CUSTOM_SUPERSPAM Superspam messages

score CUSTOM_SUPERSPAM 100.0

The first string defines the match rule. A regular expression is used in 'header' to check the message's subject.
The second string describes the filter.
And the third string defines how much scores should spamassassin set to the matching message.

You can find more info on writing custom rules for spamassassin in Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf manual page:

# man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf

Source: http://kb.parallels.com/en/1038

Piwik 1.8 and import log

In Piwik 1.8 you can import the raw apache logs into piwik from command line:

%PIWIK-ROOT%/misc/log-analytics/import_logs.py --url=http://YOUR-PIWIK-URL LogFileName.log   --show-progress --idsite=1

mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' to database 'information_schema' when using LOCK TABLES

This error occurs when making MySQL dump:

mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' to database 'information_schema' when using LOCK TABLES 

To solve this problem, add this parameter to mysqldump command:

 --single-transaction

Plesk - Autoresponder in Cron job

This command could be in cronjob for automtic on/off autoresponder:

for activating:

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail  -u YOUR@EMAIL.COM -autostatus true -autoname AUTORESPONSE-NAME -autorsp true


for deactivating:

 /usr/local/psa/bin/mail  -u YOUR@EMAIL.COM -autostatus false -autoname AUTORESPONSE-NAME -autorsp false