I often need to check my WAN IP address – so this little command will do it for you in…

So, quick and simple MySQL backup in a CRON. #!/bin/bash _hour=`date '+%H'`; _user="root"; _pass="thepassword"; _dest="/srv/backups/daily/"; mysqldump -u $_user -p$_pass --all-databases…

I found that a script I was running was calling some linux functions using exec() but they weren’t always successful…

I often forget the syntax for getting files over a SSH connection. scp user@address:/path/to/file /path/of/new/file For example: scp root@domain.com:/tmp/mysql/test.sql .…

I have a laborious task at the moment, of exporting our server process list to see how much memory certain…