Well, not too bad, it only took me three months to weed through the entire Wishbone Ash directory, fixing the tags, and properly renaming those files that sneaked through with bad filenames. Everything is as it should be now.
Huge Wishbone Ash collection added to server
Well, a lot has happened since I fixed the ftp issue with the firewall script, but that’s a long story. I ‘rolled it back’ to the state that it was in before I tried to get it working properly under systemctl, so I shall take another stab at it in the future, hopefully being a bit more cautious.
But, this update is not about the firewall, it’s about finally putting something back on the server that’s been missing since the huge crash back in 2007 or so.
Wishbone Ash! Albums from 1970 up until 2015. (I have some albums of Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash, that I shall include later.) Below is a list of the albums. 93 albums, 1800 songs. Enjoy.
Wishbone Ash – 1970 – Wishbone Ash (1992 Germany)
Wishbone Ash – 1970 – Wishbone Ash (1994 UK)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1970 – Wishbone Ash (2000 Russia)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1970 – Wishbone Ash (Unknown)
Wishbone Ash – 1971 – Pilgrimmage (1991 Germany)
Wishbone Ash – 1972 – Argus (1991 USA)
Wishbone Ash – 1972 – Argus (2002 USA, Expanded Edition)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1972 – Argus (2007 EU, Deluxe Edition, 2CD)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1972 – Argus (2013 Japan)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1973 – Live Dates (1995 UK)
Wishbone Ash – 1973 – Live Dates (2010 Japan Remastered, 2CD)
Wishbone Ash – 1973 – Live Dates (Unknown)
Wishbone Ash – 1973 – Wishbone Four (1994 UK)
Wishbone Ash – 1973 – Wishbone Four (2002 Japan)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1974 – There’s The Rub (2002 Japan)
Wishbone Ash – 1976 – Locked In (1995 Austria)
Wishbone Ash – 1976 – Locked In (2013 Japan)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1976 – New England (1992 Germany)
Wishbone Ash – 1977 – Front Page News (1997 Russia)
Wishbone Ash – 1977 – Front Page News (2001 Japan)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1978 – No Smoke Whithout Fire (2001 Japan)
Wishbone Ash – 1978 – No Smoke Without Fire (1998 Japan)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1980 – Just Testing (1998 Germany)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1980 – Just Testing (2002 Japan)
Wishbone Ash – 1980 – Just Testing (2010 Japan)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1980 – Live Dates Volume Two (2010 Japan Remastered, 2CD)
Wishbone Ash – 1980 – Live Dates Volume Two (2012 US Remastered)
Wishbone Ash – 1981 – Number The Brave (Unknown)
Wishbone Ash – 1982 – Twin Barrels Burning (1993 EU)
Wishbone Ash – 1985 – Raw To The Bone (Unknown)
Wishbone Ash – 1987 – Nouveau Calls (1988 Japan)
Wishbone Ash – 1987 – Nouveau Calls (Unknown)
Wishbone Ash – 1989 – Here To Hear
Wishbone Ash – 1989 – Here To Hear (2003 UK)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1991 – Argus + Pilgrimage (2CD)
Wishbone Ash – 1991 – Strange Affair
Wishbone Ash – 1991 – Strange Affair (2003 UK)-Remastered
Wishbone Ash – 1992 – Living Proof – Live In Chicago
Wishbone Ash – 1993 – The King Will Come – Live
Wishbone Ash – 1993 – Time Was – The Wishbone Ash Collection (2CD)
Wishbone Ash – 1994 – Runaway
Wishbone Ash – 1995 – Live At Geneva – The Very Best Of Wishbone Ash
Wishbone Ash – 1996 – Illuminations
Wishbone Ash – 1997 – Distillation (4CD Box Set)
Wishbone Ash – 1997 – On Air (BBC Sessions 1971-77)
Wishbone Ash – 1997 – Trance Visionary
Wishbone Ash – 1998 – New England – Front Page News (2CD)
Wishbone Ash – 1998 – Psychic Terrorism (2CD)
Wishbone Ash – 1998 – Their Greatest Hits
Wishbone Ash – 1999 – Bare Bones
Wishbone Ash – 2001 – Live Dates 3 – 30th Anniversary Concert 2000 (DVD)
Wishbone Ash – 2002 – Bona Fide (2006 Limited Edition)
Wishbone Ash – 2002 – Live In Bristol
Wishbone Ash – 2002 – Tracks (2CD)
Wishbone Ash – 2003 – Live
Wishbone Ash – 2003 – The Collection
Wishbone Ash – 2003 – The Live Broadcasts (DVD)
Wishbone Ash – 2003 – Tracks 2 (2CD)
Wishbone Ash – 2003 – Warriors (2CD)
Wishbone Ash – 2004 – Almighty Blues – London And Beyond (CD+2DVD)
Wishbone Ash – 2004 – Lost Pearls
Wishbone Ash – 2004 – Phoenix Rising – Classic Ash Then & Now (DVD)
Wishbone Ash – 2005 – 25th Anniversary Of The Marquee 1983 (DVD)
Wishbone Ash – 2005 – Mystery Man (2CD)
Wishbone Ash – 2005 – The King Will Come (2CD)
Wishbone Ash – 2006 – Clan Destiny
Wishbone Ash – 2007 – First Light
Wishbone Ash – 2007 – Live – Timeline
Wishbone Ash – 2007 – The Power Of Eternity
Wishbone Ash – 2007 – Tracks 3 (3CD)
Wishbone Ash – 2007 – Wonderful Stash (3CD)
Wishbone Ash – 2008 – Argus Then Again Live
Wishbone Ash – 2008 – Now + Then (2DVD)
Wishbone Ash – 2008 – Tender
Wishbone Ash – 2008 – Tough
Wishbone Ash – 2009 – 40th Anniversary Concert – Live In London 2009 (DVD)
Wishbone Ash – 2009 – Melodic Sounds (4CD Box Set)
Wishbone Ash – 2010 – Club Visiounary
Wishbone Ash – 2010 – Roadworks Volume 1 – Live At The Grand
Wishbone Ash – 2010 – Sometime World – An MCA Travelogue (2CD)
Wishbone Ash – 2011 – Elegant Stealth
Wishbone Ash – 2011 – Keeper Of The Light
Wishbone Ash – 2011 – Live On Air
Wishbone Ash – 2011 – Performance
Wishbone Ash – 2011 – RoadWorks Volume 2 – Live In Hamburg
Wishbone Ash – 2011 – Wishbone Ash Live Part 2 – The Dave Cash Collection
Wishbone Ash – 2013 – RoadWorks Volume 3 – Live In Germany
Wishbone Ash – 2014 – Blue Horizon
Wishbone Ash – 2014 – RoadWorks Volume 4 – Live At Ashcon
Wishbone Ash – 2014 – Still On
Wishbone Ash – 2014 – The Living Proof
Wishbone Ash – 2014 – Trance Terrorism
Wishbone Ash – 2015 – The Album
CRAB server firewall.iptables now fixed, so it will restart without a reboot.
For those of you familiar with my Linux server, y’all know that I run many custom BASH, Perl, and Python scripts. We are going to discuss today my iptables firewall script, or actually the fact that I took the time to repair it. Since upgrading the server to Fedora 20 in September 2014, my firewall script would start fine, but would choke on restarting, reloading, or running it over itself. The end result would be that the server would sever all ports with the outside, effectively taking it down, needing a reboot to get it back online. This was a real PITA, since I couldn’t really make any changes to the firewall without reboot. I thought it was an end result of the OS changing from SysV init scripts to a systemd system. How wrong I was…. The cause was simply a typo that I made while adding a feature, and a ‘done’ without a ‘while’ and a ‘fi’ without an ‘if’ stopped the script from accepting the restart and reload argument. Most of the iptables rulesets were created before this typo, so it gave the ‘appearance’ that it was working properly. Debugging a script of this size is a fairly daunting task, as the main firewall script is a healthy 50 pages, and its configuration file (one of a half dozen helper files) is about 7 pages long. Since I’ve had a few questions about this firewall, I’ll share it with everybody…..
Download links are only viewable to logged in users. All the other helper files, as well as these are all available upon request. If you are a logged in user, and downloading these files, remove the .txt extension from the config and main files….
This is the screen information if the VERBOSE variable is set to 1 (Select the pop-out gadget to see this properly formatted)
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Open in new tab This is the configuration file that allows for easy firewall config. (Select the pop-out gadget to see this properly formatted)
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This is the MAIN iptables firewall script that should be run at start. (Select the pop-out gadget to see this properly formatted)
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All in all, it was a fairly productive week off. I have a few other minor syntax errors to chase down, but the firewall is operating within normal parameters…..
Security Camera BASH script to merge Zoneminder events into mp4 videos
The following script is a BASH (Bourne Again Shell) script that will take zoneminder camera events and merge them into mp4 videos that can easily be archived, or viewed. The script will also ftp the resultant videos to a remote ftp server.
Zoneminder is a bit cumbersome to locate a particular event or time using the mysql events, or the ZM timeline, but this script streamlines that a bit, allowing you to use VLC or whatever and speed it up to ‘scan’ your day’s or week’s events…..
Very easy to configure as everything is set up using variables. The script will create a directory name of the current date that it’s run under your home directory, or wherever you choose.
I have it set to run as a cron event daily, but you can set it to run weekly or how often you choose by changing the mtime value, and configuring the cron event to match.
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So as not to fill up the FTP server, I wrote a prune command that will delete those videos older than 60 days. Also set to run as a cron event on the FTP server. It will accept the following syntax:
/path.to.prune/prune </directory.path.containing.video.directories/
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You will need to strip the .txt from both scripts and set them to chmod 700 and run them under the cron of the proper user.