Tag: Linux

Install Google Chromium on Backtrack 5 R3

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Google Chrome is an alternative web browser beside Mozilla Firefox. It’s free and open source. But the problem Google Chrome on Backtrack 5 is Google Chrome can’t run in root mode. We know that Backtrack run the root mode by default. If you run the Google Chrome it won’t work. So if you want to…

How to recognize the hardware platform you are running on.

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It is sometimes required especially when managing many servers to recognize the hardware setup you are running on especially if you have a zoo of different animals.  Great tool for getting detailed hardware report including bios versions and memory / processor info :   dmidecode While the output varies slightly across distros and sometimes you need to…

Installing Bacula Client on Centos

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So the story goes like this :   wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/latest/download?source=files   tar zxvf bacula-*.tar.gz cd bacula-<fiolder> ./configure –enable-client-only make make install make install-autostart-fd       nJoy 😉

Reset Mysql password from bash prompt

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You can recover MySQL database server password with following five easy steps. Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process. Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password. Step # 3: Connect to mysql server as the root user. Step # 4:…

Setting a route for a nic in Linux

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In file named after the interface you want to use as gateway: e.g. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0   Create entries :   ADDRESS=192.168.4.0 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.1.250 NnJoy 🙂

Limiting access iptables

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This is a Script that I use to deploy and script iptables. Sample handles ssh and mysql it’s easy to extend. #!/bin/bash # # iptables example configuration script # # Flush all current rules from iptables # iptables -F # # Allow SSH connections on tcp port 22 # This is essential when working on…

Tracking user access to machines

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Quick way not very detailed but it gives you a clue $ last nJoy ! 🙂 (I get shorter and sweeter 🙂 )

Starting vnc on Display 0 ( local display ) from a remote ssh session

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i.e. You wnet home need your desktop have ssh no vnc !! Here is the easy solution.. Install x11vnc. $ DISPLAY=localhost:0 x11vnc & connect to the display using vnc et voila ! BTW Teamviewer also USED TO WORK but no longer in ver 8 so thanks VNC for not being obsolete.. nJoy 🙂