Rootkit Hunter (rkhunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. It does this by comparing SHA-1 hashes of important files with known good ones in online database as well as: MD5 hash compare Look for default files used by rootkits Wrong file permissions for binaries Look for suspected strings in LKM and KLD modules Look for … Read more
lighttpd is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web-server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software for every server that suffers load … Read more
nmon is a beutiful tool to monitor linux system performance. It works on Linux, IBM AIX Unix, Power, x86, amd64 and ARM based system such as Raspberry Pi. The nmon command displays and records local system information. The command can run either in interactive or recording mode. Nmon is a short for Nigel’s performance Monitor. … Read more
Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat. Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features, more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting. Dstat allows you to view all of your system resources in real-time, you can eg. compare … Read more
Fedora project is celebrating 10th year anniversory. Fedora 20 is officially released on 17th December 2013. Fedora 20 is one of the most stable Operating system with Latest Opensource Technologies. It releases with 5 Different Desktop Environments Gnome 3.10, KDE 4.11 Plasma, Xfce, LXDE and MATE. What is New in Fedora 20 GNOME 3.10 revamps … Read more
Aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. Aria2 can be manipulated via built-in JSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces. Aria2 1.18.3 latest release. This release fixes the bug which may cause assertion failure after multi-file downloads (e.g., multi-file metalink or torrent) are performed several times due to the … Read more
This howto guide explains you’ll how to install Apache Server with latest MariaDB 5.5.34 and PHP 5.5.7 versions on CentOS 6.5 systems using Remi repository via Yum tool. We are going to install all these following PHP modules in this installation. APC (php-pecl-apc) – APC caches and optimizes PHP intermediate code CLI (php-cli) – Command-line interface for PHP PEAR (php-pear) – PHP Extension and Application Repository framework PDO (php-pdo) – A … Read more
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s file system has … Read more
Htop is an interactive and real-time system-monitor process-viewer written for Linux. It is designed to replace the Unix program top. It shows a frequently updated list of the processes running on a computer, normally ordered by the amount of CPU usage. Unlike top, htop provides a full list of processes running, instead of the top resource-consuming processes. Htop uses color and gives visual information about … Read more
This post shows the steps to configure static ip address, default gateway, netmask, dns server and make a network auto start at boot on RedHat/CentOS 5.x/6.x and Fedora linux host normally configured with static ip address, so that easier to maintain the configuration on it’s client and DNS server will always able to resolve it. … Read more