linux

logrotate

/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog

/var/log/syslog
{
	rotate 7
	daily
        size 100M
	missingok
	notifempty
	delaycompress
	compress
	postrotate
		/usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate
	endscript
}
 
/var/log/mail.info
/var/log/mail.warn
/var/log/mail.err
/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/daemon.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/user.log
/var/log/lpr.log
/var/log/cron.log
/var/log/debug
/var/log/messages
{
	rotate 4
	weekly
	missingok
	notifempty
	compress
	delaycompress
	sharedscripts
	postrotate
		/usr/lib/rsyslog/rsyslog-rotate
	endscript
}

Force logrotate

logrotate -vdf /etc/logrotate.conf

sysctl

configure parameter

# determine the maximum size of a shared memory segment
cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
 
# set default shared memory limit for shmmax (16 GB)
echo 17179869184 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
 
# add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf to make a change permanent
echo "kernel.shmmax=4294967296" >> /etc/sysctl.d/90-shmmax.conf
 
# load parameter
/sbin/sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/90-shmmax.conf

reduce swap usage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swappiness

YouTube download and convert to mp3

https://yt-dl.org/update
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases

wget -q https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/download/2019.04.30/youtube-dl -O /tmp/youtube-dl
sudo cp /tmp/youtube-dl /usr/local/sbin/
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/sbin/youtube-dl
 
# download audio (mp3) only
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foo
 
# download whole channel starting from 3 months
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o "%(upload_date)s_%(title)s.%(ext)s" --dateafter now-3months -v https://www.youtube.com/user/OpenStackFoundation/videos
 
# update
sudo youtube-dl -U

# output template
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#output-template

Install tftp server

Install tftp server package
sudo apt-get install -y xinetd tftpd tftp

Create xinetd tftp configuration

cat <<EOF> /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
service tftp
{
protocol        = udp
port            = 69
socket_type     = dgram
wait            = yes
user            = nobody
server          = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args     = /tftpboot
disable         = no
}
EOF

Create /tftpboot folder

sudo mkdir /tftpboot
sudo chmod -R 777 /tftpboot
sudo chown -R nobody /tftpboot

Restart the xinetd service

sudo service xinetd restart

Testing our tftp server

ip a add 192.168.1.1/24 dev eth0:1
echo foo > /tftpboot/testfile
tftp 192.168.1.1
get testfile
quit

Links
https://askubuntu.com/questions/201505/how-do-i-install-and-run-a-tftp-server

OpenStack: rescue / recovery system

Download rescure iso
wget http://download.grml.org/grml64-small_2018.12.iso

Create rescure system

openstack image create systemrescuecd \
  --file grml64-small_2018.12.iso \
  --disk-format iso \
  --container-format bare \
  --min-ram 512 \
  --property hw_cdrom_bus=scsi
 
# show image
openstack image list --name systemrescuecd

Attach rescure system

openstack server rescue --image systemrescuecd ${SERVER_ID}

# Login to VM console and fix issues
Detach rescure system

openstack server unrescue ${SERVER_ID}

Links
https://help.switch.ch/engines/documentation/rescue-vm/
https://grml.org/

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