Tag Archives: Scripts

Securing WordPress with Fail2Ban

On Christmas some bored Latvian (according to whois) ‘script kid’ decided to try-and-break into one of my WordPress installations with brute force login attempts. Not a problem as such, because I had already taken precautions against such attempts, but his … Continue reading

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Useful snippets #1: Backup drive check and GPU/disk temperature

I thought to share here some of the bash scripts I’ve made for maintaining my Gentoo Linux system. 1. Checking for a correct detachable drive before backing up with rsync. In my case, the script checks whether the correct eSATA … Continue reading

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