Technology Insights

PHP Script Using Exec Function & Launched From Crontab Hogging Server Memory

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While working on a PHP script on a CentOS Linux server that runs from crontab I ran into an issue where PHP was bogging the server down because of memory use. The script has a lot of output that is not necessary to store though when using the exec function within the PHP script it was storing the unneeded output to an away which I believe was causing the memory usage problem. At first I thought I simply needed to modify the memory_limit setting within php.ini however that was not the true issue at hand. Below I describe two items to look at modifying if you run into a similar issue.

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How To Set a Root CA to Untrusted on Mac OSX

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I decided to make a quick post on how to set a trusted root CA to untrusted in Mac OSX. As some people may or may not know, one of the root CA authorities was recently hacked and several rouge certificates were issued including one with a domain name of  .google.com. Now DigiNotar, which is the company in question, claims that the have revoked all the rouge certificates and all is well. However, me being involved in infosec and security I would rather not take any chances so I decided to set DigiNotar to a “trust never” level on my machine for the time being. Below I will outline the few simple steps to do this for any certificate authority on Mac OSX.