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@louiszuckerman
louiszuckerman / essh
Last active August 29, 2015 14:26
SSH to EC2 host by Instance ID
#!/bin/bash
# Usage: essh { instance id } [ subcommand ]
ssh -X $(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids $1 --query "Reservations[0].Instances[0].PublicIpAddress" --output text) $2
@plentz
plentz / nginx.conf
Last active May 3, 2025 05:27
Best nginx configuration for improved security(and performance)
# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048
@marktheunissen
marktheunissen / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active April 19, 2025 17:31 — forked from phred/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options
This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.
@alobato
alobato / start-stop-example.sh
Created March 3, 2012 23:09
start-stop-example
#!/bin/sh
# Quick start-stop-daemon example, derived from Debian /etc/init.d/ssh
set -e
# Must be a valid filename
NAME=foo
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
#This is the command to be run, give the full pathname
DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/bar
@cdown
cdown / gist:1163649
Last active April 14, 2025 22:42
Bash urlencode and urldecode
urlencode() {
# urlencode <string>
old_lc_collate=$LC_COLLATE
LC_COLLATE=C
local length="${#1}"
for (( i = 0; i < length; i++ )); do
local c="${1:$i:1}"
case $c in