I was surprised when I saw the length of the Chrome user agent string last week: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.X.Y.Z Safari/525.13 And in our logs: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.29 Safari/525.13 a user agent string of 119 characters. It looks [...]
Logcheck is a tool to parse system logs and send summaries by email. It filters out logs with a regular expressions database to suppress common/normal entries. Are you reading / checking your log files? Too many servers? logcheck will help you in this task and eliminates the noise. Installing on Debian # apt-get install logcheck [...]
This post is a quick ref on the linux touch command. All the examples have been tested on Linux. This command is used to update the access and modification times of files. touch’s syntax touch [option] file_name(s) touch file1 file2 file3 Here some examples: # touch /tmp/file # ls -l /tmp/file rw-r–r– 1 charlybr charlybr [...]