Linux on Ricky Moorhouse

NAS Hacking

Mon, 10 May 2010 21:06:51 +0000

A while back, we close to filling up the partition on our desktop machine with photos, so I decided to get a second hard drive. In the end, instead of a hard drive, I decided to by the WD My Book World Edition which is a basic Linux server with a 1TB hard drive.

Here's my notes on what I've done with it so far:

Enable ssh
Install optware
Install some useful optware packages (e.g. cron, perl etc)

Delete directories older than 90 days

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:25:16 +0000

find /var/log/hostdb/* -type d -mtime +90 -exec rm -rf {} ;

-type d only look at directories, f would be files -mtime +90 modified time greater than 90 days ago

Watching log files for something

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:00:00 +0000

Found from: techblog:

tail -f /var/log/apache2/access_log | sed "s/rss/Ctrl+vCtrl+[[41;1mrssCtrl+vCtrl+[[0m/g"

This example is looking for people accessing the rss feed so I can see how frequently it gets hit (whilst still seeing what else is going on). With this I spotted that one of the Firefox extensions I was using(piclens) was automatically downloading the detected rss feed with every page access. It's a nice extension and I can see why it does that, but I don't want to be accessing rss feeds automatically and potentially multiple times as I use sites.