You can use this simple command or put it in executable script to check Apache memory usage per process and total:
ps -ylC apache2 | awk '{x += $8;y += 1} END {print "Apache Memory Usage (MB): "x/1024; print "Average Proccess Size (MB): "x/((y-1)*1024)}'To prevent POODLE (“Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption”) attach which is a man-in-the-middle exploit that takes advantage of SSL3.0 vulnerability it is necessary to disable SSLv3 in your web server configuration.
To check if you are vulnerable to this attack you can use the form on following website:
https://www.digicert.com/help/ Continue reading “Apache: How to Disable the SSL v3 Protocol on Debian”
One thing that comes very handy is usage of cron to make scheduled job to delete old files so that you can free up some space on your hard drive
# Delete Apache logs older than 60 days
find /var/log/apache2/ -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;With this simple script you will search through Apache logs in folder /var/log/apache2, select the ones with access time older than +60 (60 days) and execute delete with rm command.
Easy and dirty solution for your EOL (end of life) Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail for the Heartbleed / cve-2014-0160?
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/openssl_1.0.1c-3ubuntu2.7_armhf.deb \ https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libssl1.0.0_1.0.1c-3ubuntu2.7_armhf.deb \ https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libssl-dev_1.0.1c-3ubuntu2.7_armhf.deb
Continue reading “Fix heartbleed / cve-2014-0160 on ARM Ubuntu 13.04 with packages from 12.04”