simple Specifically disable certificate verification in lftp LFTP is a great FTP program that I use quite regularly. I recently had a problem connecting to a server (that I didnt control) and getting the following error due to the cert being self signed:
Linux Install and verify softflowd for Netflow on OpenWrt softflow is a great opensource Netflow exporter that is support on OperWrt :) This allows us to sample the flows running through our OpenWrt router, export them to a netflow analyzer
Eggdrop openweathermap script for eggdrop Recently wunderground announced the end of new registrations for "free" API access making an earlier eggdrop weather script [here] somewhat less useful. The script below attempts to replicate
Eggdrop movie search script for eggdrop bot using api Recently another script I used to search for film information got broken. After a quick look around I found the nice people over at OMDb (http://www.omdbapi.com/) who
Eggdrop Twitter Eggdrop script I've started to play around the the Twitter API a little and created a small script to grab the contents of a spammed tweet link and display it in the
Eggdrop News script for eggdrop bot This script uses the API from newsapi.org to return the latest headlines from a users preselected news site. Requires +news set on the channel and your own free API
Kodi kodi-pvr-mythtv addon for Fedora (25) Kodi MythTV PVR automated packages from rpmfusion. and unitedrpms. sadly haven't been working on my Fedora 24 or 25 systems for quite sometime with crashes and failures to load that
Eggdrop Gif search script for eggdrop bot Just another small script that uses the nice API over at giphy to return gif links based on the query from a user. Requires +giphy set on the channel but
Eggdrop Weather eggdrop script for wunderground.com API *** This API has since been closed by Wunderground :( Please look HERE for an more modern alternative This is a simple script tcl script for an eggdrop that will allow users
Fedora Install GNS3 1.x on Fedora 22 Quick guide to installing the quite awesome GNS3. Very similar process to Fedora 20 but this time using DNF and a small adjustment on some package names with some extras
Linux Decrypt HTTPS (SSL/TLS) with Wireshark Wireshark has some very nice SSL/TLS decryption features tucked away although you need either of the following two: Access to the servers private pki key Access to the client
Centos Install NGINX with HTTP/2 and Pagespeed [toc] Been playing recently with nginx rather than apache (nginx supports http/2 now as of 1.9.5) and its been quite a nice change with a much cleaner
Cisco jun2acl (Juniper to Cisco ACL Script) Recently we've needed to migrate an inherited environment away from Juniper Junos and onto Cisco IOS. As part of this a lot (!) of old an quite nasty firewall filter config
Eggdrop Youtube eggdrop script using API v3 Just a very simple eggdrop script that allows users to search on youtube using the youtube and will also return some information for any youtube link spamming into the channel
Eggdrop Kuvaton Eggdrop script A very simple little TCL script for an eggdrop bot that will grab either some random images or return search results from http://kuvaton.com/. Any problems or suggestions just
GNS3 Install GNS3 1.0 on Fedora Recently started to play around with the new GN3 1.0 release on my Fedora 20 laptop. Just a quick guide to installing since the official notes only seem to
Centos Install NFSEN (Centos 6 & Fedora 20) Found myself having to do this a few times now and it usually ends up being quite messy in the end so some nice clean instructions from a real sysadmin.
BGP Simple script to add route to exaBGP Continuing to play around with the very fine exaBGP. This time adding my own little script to announce a new route and reload the exaBGP config to announce the new
GNS3 Fedora 19 how to install GNS3 Doesnt seem to be a package for GNS3 on Fedora but installing from source is pretty straight forward :) The example below uses the latest version at the time of writing
Linux Use tcpdump to analyse HTTP POST data Today it has been useful to look at POST data being sent to this webserver. A nice filter to do this at the console with tcpdump is: tcpdump -s 0
BGP Simple script to reload exaBGP config Recently started to look at exabgp as a tool to inject routes for a RTBH setup. Works nicely so far so made the following simple script to reload the config
Linux Fedora sound over HDMI using pulseaudio On a few machine builds I've had some problems getting sound over HDMI interfaces to TVs on Fedora machines (15/16/17). I guess this is probably the same for
Bash Check service is running with systemctl and start it if stopped + mail I did an earlier version of this script on Fedora 16 but used pidof rather than systemctl to check a services status. I use this script below on a few
Bash Automatically create symbolic link to Bluray when inserted My MythTV 0.25 box does support Bluray playback straight from the disc but as Blurays need to be mounted in Linux it needs to know where the disc is
Linux How to configure Smokeping alerts From http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ SmokePing keeps track of your network latency: *Best of breed latency visualisation. *Interactive graph explorer. *Wide range of latency measurement plugins. *Master/Slave System
