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Windows Live Writer 2011- Makes it easy to share your photos and videos on any blog service

Windows Live Writer makes it easy for anyone to tell stories like a professional blogger. You can create beautiful blog posts, and see what they’ll look like online before you publish them to your blog. Plus, you can publish your blog to any of your favorite blog service providers, such as WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, and more. What you see is [...]

How to set Proxy Setting In Google Chrome

  Google Chrome is a browser is used slowly and slowly by millions of users and among then many love to use there browser after setting proxy .Proxy is one one of the greatest way to hide yourself from network and to reduce chances of online hacking .You have read many articles and blog post [...]

How to increase PageRank In WordPress by Putting NoFollow Relationship

Blogroll in WordPress displays a list of blogger’s favorite blogs in the sidebar of their blog. Blogroll provides links to external blogs in easily managed way. Some webmasters also use Blogroll to display backlinks to other external sites for link exchange or link buying. In reality, links added by WordPress blogroll is actually useless textlinks [...]

How to ban someone from visiting your website completely

There may come a time when you unfortunately need to ban someone from visiting your website completely. This is very easy to do using htaccess and can be useful if there is a spammer or disgruntled member attacking your site (something which unfortunately happens a lot to forum and blog owners).

How to list out opened host ports in Linux

Opened host ports are usually the most non-physical direct way of forcing entry remotely. Here you would see several tools and ways how to list out your currently opened ports from your managed linux box. Let’s view our first attempt to list out those opened and used ports. # netstat -panut | grep LISTEN We [...]

How to schedule and run script on specified time and date – Crontab

Linux systems are capable of running scheduled jobs. Server administrative task are done on regular basis even while sysads are away or during sleeping hours. This keeps a fully working production server do unattended jobs on periodical basis. cron is a linux utility that schedules and automates jobs. This blog entry covers how to do [...]

How to do ssh log parsing and monitoring

Server SSH log files provides us information from simple system to critical system security message. Here are quick ways of doing it via CLI terminal. These examples could serve also as starting point to parse more search key strings not only from any ssh log files, but also to other daemon service log file such [...]

How to block consecutive IP address using scripts

There are times that a server does not need to listen and process any TCP/UDP request for a long list of consecutive local IP addresses. This blog entry provides a starting point of creating server scripts to block a long list of consecutive IP address from the server for permanent blocking. To start, launch your [...]

How to delete spam email and folder regularly – Linux

Fighting spam email is a worldwide daily combat challenge. Email spam fight is just another daily server wide monitoring function of any sysad administering those email servers. Global spam email attacks and happens everyday regardless of country, server setup, domains, geolocation and public IP address you might have. Take a look of the top country [...]

How to Sync date and time via NTP server

Syncronizing your current date and time is as important as making database backups. Without proper accurate stamped date and time, any backup file with any stamped date on it would be meaningless. Without correct time and date, those scripts that depend on date and time schedule would be executed inaccurately and would give you result [...]

How to use Nmap for Port Scanning in Linux

How to know which port is open from unmanaged remote host? How to determine running application and services from remote host? How to do basic port scanning against a host? How to confirm ports opened from remote host? Here are a several ways to do port scanning and know which port/services are currently opened from [...]

Nagios Monitoring – How to install and generic setup

A lot of powerful monitoring tools are freely available from linux world. One of them is Nagios. Nagios is a fairly complex linux monitoring tool that determines current status of target host or equipment. Two good things about Nagios is that Nagios supports web-enabled administration page and user view-only mode account. The other one is [...]

How to Get Linux Disk Space and Usage

Here’s is a command that shows several usage and ways of retrieving disk space usage. This disk space usage command is another abused and bypassed linux command that has been repeated over and over again from samples and old linux blog entries among the blog entries around here. Here’s a quick run covering details and [...]

How to Determine RedHat and Fedora release version

A quick blog post on how to determine your Fedora release name and its release version. For several years of staying and working under a company with multiple linux distributions and versions, multiple OS upgrades and server redundcancy backups makes it somehow confusing and difficult to differentiate which release name and version was a specific [...]

How to Check and Mark Bad Block Of Hard Disk

Now, here’s a quick blog entry on how to check your harddisk for possible bad blocks and mark them those badblocks along the way. What is e2fsck? e2fsck is used to check a Linux second extended file system (ext2fs). E2fsck also supports ext2 filesystems containing a journal, which are also sometimes known as ext3 filesystems, [...]