Network

Configure squid to ignore some sites

If you are using squid like me, it is sometimes useful to avoid cacheing some internet addresses. To accomplish this you could edit your /etc/squid/squid.conf file and add the following line acl NOCACHEDOMAIN dstdomain www.vg.no no_cache deny NOCACHEDOMAIN This makes it possible to view www.vg.no without viewing a squid cached page.

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Linux

rpcbind and auth ports open

The last time I installed Debian Etch i closed both port 111 and 113 but since I’ve forgot it already and a new installation is in progress, this post should remind me how to do it in the future. The code view below shows the ports nmap found were in a open state PORT STATE […]

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Linux

List rpm package content

To list the contents of a package just run the command # rpm -ql packagename Example # rpm -ql nmap /usr/bin/nmap /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70 /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/COPYING /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/COPYING.OpenSSL /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/README /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap-fingerprinting-article.txt /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap.deprecated.txt /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap.usage.txt /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap_doc.html /usr/share/doc/nmap-3.70/nmap_manpage.html /usr/share/man/man1/nmap.1.gz /usr/share/nmap /usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes /usr/share/nmap/nmap-os-fingerprints /usr/share/nmap/nmap-protocols /usr/share/nmap/nmap-rpc /usr/share/nmap/nmap-service-probes /usr/share/nmap/nmap-services

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Scripting

My 10 most used linux commands

This is a oneliner bash command to determine my 10 most used linux commands according to my history file history | awk ‘{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] ” ” CMD[a]/count*100 “% ” a;}’ | grep -v “./” | column -c3 -s ” ” -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10 The […]

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Linux

Discover online PCs fast

This is as far as I know the fastest way to determine what PCs are online in your network # nmap -sP 192.168.0.1-255 Starting Nmap 4.53 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2008-02-25 00:01 CET Host 192.168.0.120 appears to be up. Host 192.168.0.140 appears to be up. Host 192.168.0.250 appears to be up. Nmap done: 255 IP […]

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