Tagged: cron

Wildcard SSL Certs: Let’s Encrypt & Cloudflare

My servers have been using free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for some time now, but I was really excited to hear about support for wildcard SSL certificates in 2018. Wildcards are now available thus...

Dynamically Update /etc/hosts from NGINX

I wanted to guarantee that requests coming from one of my servers going to a domain they host are routed to localhost. The solution I arrived at was to generate a list of domains...

MySQL / MariaDB Backup & Archive Script

I am using MariaDB – the open source version of MySQL – and wanted an easy way to backup my databases on a regular schedule without having to do anything when I created or...

Monitor IPSec VPN Tunnel

I have an IPSec Tunnel built from one of my servers to an integration partner which is used to secure our web service calls. It uses a IPSec, OpenSwan, and Pluto to maintain a...

Disable WP-Cron in WordPress

What is WP-Cron? WP-Cron is the way that WordPress executes scheduled jobs that are added via wp_schedule_event() or one of its associated functions. First it’s a bit of a hack given the single threaded-ness...

Change Interval in Munin With Existing RRD Data

The default settings for Munin will result in RRD files containing 5 minute intervals of data, or 300 seconds as it is stored internally. It is possible to change this interval by changing /etc/cron.d/munin....