Hey Guys If you run a website or blog and you are in charge of the server such as on a VPS you might not want to let everyone know what version of apache or Linux you are running on. this gives potential attackers information that can use to attack your site. For example, if […]
Updating Cacti can be easy or tricky depending on your system size and design.
In this post, I show you how you can upgrade your cacti system properly and safely
The Cacti installation outlines some recommendations for best performance while using Mysql or MariaDB
Hello everyone ! When installing some of the new versions of cacti you may come across these below 2 PHP errors related to a timezone which will prevent you from installation CACTI This is a simple fix that involves editing the php.ini for PHP and php.ini file for PHP CLI the PHP.ini files are
Sysctl is a module built into linux that allows you to modify the kernel attributes in this example I am using. Sysctl to enable SYN-cookies an effective mitigation against SYN attacks. On your linux system the sysctl configuration file is located at /etc/sysctl.conf to do this add the following to the sysctl.conf file
Linux/Unix utilizes run-levels to enable certain functionality from single user mode to GUI mode these run-levels cater to different needs for system administrators and for troubleshooting you can set a default run level to say boot to the CLI instead of the GUI. on servers, you generally would use run level 3 which is the
On Linux and Unix systems there are many ways of finding system details and current system stats. so of the most commonly used commands are TOP,freemem, free etc but there is another way to find this information. Actually, you can pull this information from the exact place the commands above pull it from. enter
So I upgraded to 16.04 not too long ago Ive seen some bumps in the road so far but now I am seeing weird issues with updates W: http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release.gpg: Signature by key 4CCA1EAF950CEE4AB83976DCA040830F7FAC5991 uses weak digest algorithm (SHA1) W: http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release.gpg: Signature by key 3B068FB4789ABE4AEFA3BB491397BC53640DB551 uses weak digest algorithm (SHA1) W: The repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/n-muench/programs-ppa/ubuntu xenial Release’
Hello Everyone , In this video I show you how you can enable MFA on Ubuntu System wide this installation will also work on any debian based operating system. The idea here is that you will have MFA enabled on your login,termina,root prompt and any where that you would be asked for a password. This
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