Linux

Scheduling in Linux… Linux comes equipped with scheduling tools. Tools that will let you get a full night’s rest and still have that backup program …

How do you know if someone is probing your network? Logs are a great place to start, especially your FW-1 logs. Unfortunately, those logs can be difficult and …

There are two types of filesystems you will need to learn how to make in order to get your Linux multi-partition system up and running are swap and ext2. …

We will use only anonymous ftp and will not allow any non-anonymous user any access. Here we describe the anonymous ftp server setup that allows anonymous …

If you want to have your website have user/password restrictions, you must have Apache installed and running. There are only 2 steps to this: 1. create a file …

Formatting the new disk Use the following command to format Linux partitions using ext2fs on the new disk: mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb1 To check the disk for bad blocks …

Recently I encountered a problem when I ftped to my server, I was trying to upload a file that already existed under my username on the server, and I kept …

Building and Installing SSH For most Unix systems, the installation of SSH is pretty straightforward. Simply download the GNU-zipped tar file from one of the …

MysqlDump can be used for many different reasons. For one, you can use mysqldump to backup the data in your MySql DataBase. Here is what mysqldumpdoes. …

This isn’t hard but seems to vex the newbies so here goes. 1. Do the physical install. If you don’t know how to do this then I suggest buying a Mac, or perhaps …

On most Unix systems passwords are stored in the file /etc/passwd This means using the Unix echo out command, cat, you can see the contents of this file: cat …

Stopping the most common attack: Ok well, one of the easiest ways of getting superuser access is through anonymous ftp access into a webpage. This can easily be …