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How to Run Remote Commands with SSH

The ssh program can  be used for monitoring remote hots. The system admin can also execute commands from his desktop which can be executed at remote servers. This is a cool facility of ssh. We can do much more on SSH. root@admin:~ # ssh root@www ‘df -h’ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ubda 3.5G 2.1G [...]

How to Install Elgg – An open, flexible social networking engine

Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea. Elgg is open source. That means, when you use Elgg, you have [...]

Essential Linux Server Administrator Commands

Command Summary Use arp Command mostly used for checking existing Ethernet connectivity and IP address Most common use: arp This command should be used in conjunction with the ifconfig and route commands. It is mostly useful for me to check a network card and get the IP address quick. Obviously there are many more parameters, [...]

Understanding DAS,NAS and SAN.

While one type of storage media is usually sufficient for smaller companies, large enterprises will often have a mixed storage environment, implementing different mediums for specific departments, workgroups and remote offices. In this paper, we will provide an overview of DAS, NAS and SAN to help you determine which solution, or combination of solutions, will best help you achieve your business goals

How to Transfer data between linux and nokia Nseries

So you have a phone with a camera and an mp3 player, and now you would like swap data between it and your linux computer. There are a couple of ways of going about it. These should work, or at least give you a good start on a lot of phones (not just the Nseries), [...]

List of Best and Worst practices for designing a high traffic website

Here is a checklist of the factors that affect your rankings with Google, MSN, Yahoo! and the other search engines. The list contains positive, negative and neutral factors because all of them exist. Most of the factors in the checklist apply mainly to Google and partially to MSN, Yahoo! and all the other search engines of lesser importance. If you need more information on particular sections of the checklist, you may want to read our SEO tutorial, which gives more detailed explanations of Keywords, Links, Metatags, Visual Extras, etc.

How to format a windows partition from linux hadrdisk

First step is to make sure your windows partition is not currently mounted.Let’us use an alternative way like # df -ah which shows file system disk space usage. Sample result ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 17G 13G 3.7G 78% / proc 0 0 0 – /proc sysfs 0 0 0 – [...]

How to add additional swap Memory

First, we need to know what is swap memory? Generally, this is a temporary memory storage for an OS to utilize while the OS is trying to get more busy process managing another separate threads from another running applications.Assuming you already have an existing swap partition, which is usual by default installation, and we would [...]

50 quick linux command tips part 3

1. How to know which ports are listening from your IP address? # nmap -sT -O your-ip-address 2. How to grep an exact match? # grep -w textfile.txt 3. How to reverse grep matches? # grep -v textfile.txt # 4. How to know which service name is what port? Assuming port 443 # cat testfile.txt [...]

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 monitor large mailbox users

Monitoring mailbox users can be done in many serveral ways via web interface or via terminal or via bash scripts. With the usual mbox type emails, incoming new email messages are automatically redirected to each users’ own spool file. This spool mail is by default located and stored in /var/spool/mail. From there, the spool file [...]

How To Get Your Most and Top SSH Port Attacker From Terminal

SSH port is only one of the most typical ports being bombarded and attacked by unauthorized hosts trying to get access to your server via SSH port. Preventing these SSH port attacks from unauthorized hosts can be done in many several ways. By default SSH setup, SSH daemon service echoes its SSH activities to default [...]

How To Get SSH Users With Most Failed Login Attempts via Terminal

Bash-enabled linux SSH accounts are one of the sweetest and enticing server aroma for a SSH port attacket to get one from a server being managed by somebody else. Here’s a quick post on how to list down the SSH user accounts with most failed SSH login attempts. Get Most Attacked SSH System Accounts SSH [...]