Online resource collection for Linux Administrators

Online resource collection for Linux Administrators

These are some sites i use to do specific jobs, i hope they can serve you well too. Corntab Corntab is a simple crontab web GUI With Corntab you can ensure that you always have the correct crontab syntax. Don’t worry about forgetting the proper crontab format because Corntab let’s you click on all of […]

More SSH Port Forwarding

More SSH Port Forwarding

Today I present another excellent article by Domenico Raffaele originally presented in his blog (in Italian) where you can find many other interesting articles about hacks and VoIP. This is his second article about ssh. Here you’ll see some example of SSH Port Forwarding, sometimes called SSH Tunneling, which allows you to establish a secure SSH […]

ufw - Iptables under Ubuntu

ufw – Iptables under Ubuntu

I use iptables by many years and used it also for complex solutions and only recently i’ve discovered ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall), the ubuntu version, or better developed to ease iptables firewall configuration, ufw provides a user friendly way to create an IPv4 or IPv6 host-based firewall. By default UFW is disabled.

Display files information with stat

Display files information with stat

The stat command is really useful to gather information from file, directory and file system. The basic usage of stat is: ~#stat /etc/passwd   File: `/etc/passwd’ Size: 999 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: ca00h/51712d Inode: 845 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r–r–) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2011-05-26 12:14:41.000000000 +0200 […]