To find out if your Ubuntu/Debian Linux server needs a reboot, you can use several methods. Here are some common methods: Check the system logs: You can check the system logs to see if there are any messages indicating that a reboot is required. You can use the following command to view the system logs: … Read more
The Linux Kernel Stack Clash vulnerability (CVE-2017-1000364) is a security issue that affects the Linux kernel. To protect against this vulnerability, you will need to patch your Linux system by installing the appropriate security updates. The exact steps to patch and protect against this vulnerability will depend on the specific distribution of Linux you are … Read more
Tinc VPN is a virtual private network (VPN) software that allows you to create a secure network between multiple computers. To run two or more network instances of Tinc VPN on the same machine, you will need to perform the following steps for each network: Create separate directories for each network: mkdir /etc/tinc/network1 mkdir /etc/tinc/network2 … Read more
To find and delete a directory recursively on a Linux or Unix-like system, you can use the rm command with the -r (or –recursive) option. For example, to delete the directory /path/to/directory, you would run the following command: rm -rf /path/to/directory Note: The -f option (or –force) is used to ignore nonexistent files and suppress … Read more
FreeNAS, a popular open-source network-attached storage (NAS) operating system, supports the use of solid-state drives (SSDs) as a write cache (ZIL) and read cache (L2ARC) to improve performance. Here’s how to add ZIL and L2ARC SSD devices in FreeNAS: Connect the SSD devices to your FreeNAS system and ensure that they are recognized in the … Read more
Monit is a process supervision tool that can be used to monitor and manage the status of various services and processes on a Linux server. Here’s how to install and use Monit on Ubuntu/Debian: Install Monit using the package manager: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install monit Configure Monit by editing the configuration file at … Read more
You can create a countdown timer in a bash shell script using the for loop and the sleep command. Here’s an example that counts down from 10 seconds: #!/bin/bash echo “Starting countdown…” for i in {10..1}; do echo -n “$i ” sleep 1 done echo “Time’s up!” The script will display the countdown in the … Read more
To install the latest kernel on CentOS 7 using the yum command, you need to follow these steps: Update the yum repository to ensure that you have access to the latest packages: sudo yum update Install the kernel-devel package, which is required for building kernel modules: sudo yum install kernel-devel Install the latest kernel package … Read more
You can write a Raspbian image file to an SD card on macOS / OS X using the command line tool “dd”. Here’s how you can do it: Insert the SD card into your Mac’s card reader. Determine the device name of the SD card by running the following command: diskutil list Unmount the SD … Read more
Debian provides a package called “unattended-upgrades” to automate security updates. Here’s how you can configure it: Install the unattended-upgrades package: sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades Open the configuration file: sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades Enable the automatic upgrade of security updates: Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins { “${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-security”; // “${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-updates”; // “${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-proposed”; // “${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-backports”; }; Enable email notifications for upgrades: Unattended-Upgrade::Mail “root”; … Read more