A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
As far as I know Debian doesn’t have any defined way to save your iptables rules. I’ve done it this way: First I’ve made my iptables rules and made sure they work. Second is to save those rules to a configuration file iptables-save > /root/scripts/iptables.save I always try to save my custom scripts and required […]
I’ve installed rkhunter, a rootkit checking script, on a Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbons) distro and today it mailed a message saying that 3 files had their properties changed. The files were /usr/bin/chattr, /usr/bin/lsattr and /usr/bin/perlBefore doing anything I tried to update rkhunter to see if there had been any updates to fix this message rkhunter –update […]
In Debian you can change the console language by running the command # dpkg-reconfigure -p low locales This command installs the necessary language files if they don’t exist.
This bash script adjusts images to fit in a digital frame with a resolution of 480×234 pixels however by using the size 832×468 pictures are displayed sharper on some frames. Normally, narrower pictures will have black borders at both sides when displayed. but this script makes the border color the average of the picture. The […]
In RedHat distributions like RHEL, Fedora and also CentOS you have a tool called ntsysv to manage daemons and their runlevels. In Debian there is an alternative tool that lets you determine what daemon you want to run using a text GUI sysv-rc-conf It makes it easy to manage which daemons you would like to […]