"Myles"

Generate an inode report (file count) for Debian, CentOS, cPanel, RHEL, with INODES shell/bash script

If you have every used shared hosting, or are involved with the hosting business in any way, you should already know what an inode is. Each time a file is created, uploaded, and so on, an inode is created. This inode stores information like ownership, permissions, etc … basically all the metadata about the file. What is the purpose of limiting the amount of files/inodes? Because each shared host will have many customers on the same server, customers that have excessive amounts of inodes (anywhere from 100,000 to 500,000 and up), can cause a heavy load on the server during backups, general operation, and can be taxing on hard drives. Most of the time excessive amounts of inodes is due to cache scripts installed by the user, catchall email accounts, and normally the customer/user doesn’t even know they exist. Well fear no more, I have created a shell/bash script that will help generate reports, and soon notify you about inode usage… (more…)

How to fix CloudLinux error UsePAM yes is missing

Just recently while going through email notifications for some of my servers, I noticed one of them was showing a CloudLinux error in reference to UsePAM yes being in the sshd_config file.  After checking the /etc/ssh/sshd_config and seeing that entry was in fact in there, I had to do a little bit of research to figure out how to fix it… (more…)

How to use MongoDB date aggregation operators in Node.js with Mongoose ($dayOfMonth, $dayOfYear, $dayOfWeek, etc)

While I was working on creating a tutorial for MongoDB aggregation I came across a few issues while trying to use the built in date aggregation operators.  I was storing the date in the db as the unix epoch timestamp.  I tried multiple variations such as “new Date()”, “new Date().getTime()”, “Date.now()”, etc, but none of those would work.  I kept getting this error “can’t convert from BSON type NumberDouble to Date”.  Turns out, the solution was very simple, and something I completely overlooked (more…)