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Sys “look through” – read everything in /sys with find
WHAT IS THIS: ############## /sys holds alot of information about the system and its current settings and devices. Sometimes you want to read all those values. Here is a nice script thatRead More…
SSH Reverse Tunnel – Traversing NAT – Setup a permanent tunnel to your pc using remote ssh
TRAVERSING NAT: HOW TO SETUP A PERMANENT TUNNEL BETWEEN YOUR PC AND A SSH SERVER SO YOU CAN CONNECT TO YOUR PC @ ANYTIME ########################################################################################################################### Lets say you have a machine/pc/serverRead More…
SSH Passwordless login and running command – using key authentication
PASSWORDLESS LOGIN ################## This is not a lesson on public and private keys, I hope you know what those are. Also DSA vs RSA not covered here. But if you have aRead More…
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WHAT IS LSOF AND BENEFIT: lsof lists every used file (and in linux a file is everything) so this lists every used everything. AKA spying on your system (see if there isRead More…
Software RAID – mdadm – making a SPARE into an ACTIVE drive + Fix auto-read-only
MAKE SPARE AN ACTIVE MEMBER AND NOT A SPARE WITH RAID5 AND MAKE AUTO-READ-ONLY GO AWAY THIS FIX WORKS WITHOUT HURTING YOUR DATA IF YOU FOLLOW THE STEPS 🙂 WHAT WAS THERead More…
Simple HTTP Fileserver / Webserver on Debian
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secondary ip address – multihoming – with ifconfig – virtual interfaces
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script to delete problematic files and folder
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screen/dtach – basic attach detach reattach – copy splitting – cheatsheet
screen and dtach allow to detach the current terminal from the shell. Thus you can turn off your shell (putty/teraterm) and still have your sessions running. You can start a session withRead More…