Logstalgia (also known as ApachePong) is a very powerful and handy app. It is a website access log visualization tool. It is an extremely useful tool to give you look at your web server traffic. I often use this kind of software to justify and convince my clients and/or boss that we need more servers […]
From my mailbag: Dear nixCraft, I run a Debian Linux 8.x on my Desktop and Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS on my Linode cloud server for my personal website. I am concerned that my Linux is affected by the recent Wannacrypt malware. I am reading about a ransomware attack, what do I need to do? Should […]
For some weird reason, I can not get my OpenVPN server to come up at boot time using systemd on an Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS server. I have tried a few settings but failed so far. So I twitted about it: Dear Systemd, AT LEAST TELL ME WHAT THE FUCKING ERROR IS!!!#linux #sysadmin #systemd #ubuntu […]
GnuBee is a personal NAS (Network Attached Storage) cloud server that is currently being funded on Crowd Supply. It is a low-cost, low-power, NAS device that runs GNU/Linux and it is claimed to be based on free, libre, and open source software. No proprietary drivers needed to use GnuBee. From the project home page: We […]
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OpenSSH is critical for both sysadmin and programmers. It is an implementation of the SSH protocol suite, from OpenBSD project. It provides an encrypted session to your server. OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities OpenSSH has multiple vulnerabilities as of 11th January 2017 running on FreeBSD operating system. From the advisory: The ssh-agent(1) agent supports loading a PKCS#11 […]
You can use the following tools to see how long system has been running on a Linux or Unix-like system: uptime : Tell how long the server has been running. lastt : Show the reboot and shutdown time. tuptime : Report the historical and statistical running time of system, keeping it between restarts. Like uptime […]
HandBrake is an open-source and free transcoder for digital video files. It makes ripping a film from a DVD to a data storage device such as NAS boxes easier. HandBrake works Linux, macOS, and Windows. A Recent version of Handbrake for Mac and possibly other downloads at the same site infected with malware. If you […]
OrientDB is an open source data management system which operates in Java. It is also what is known as a multi-model database, meaning that it supports all kinds of models, from graph and document to key/value and object models. Users opt for this Java application not just because it is easy to use but also […]