How to Monitor User Activity on Linux with psacct or acct

On any server it’s important to have the most information as possible on what’s going on in real time with tools as pidstat and glances, but it’s also important to collect all the activity done by all the users and processes that are running, to analyze them at a later time or in case of […]

Steam for Linux: Celebration Sale

Perhaps this is really the year of gaming on Linux, if you are reading this post probably you are interested in gaming and Linux, and I’ve got a good news for you : there is a big sale of games for Linux on Steam until FEB 21, 10AM PST. They are all closed source games, […]

dig – Linux DNS Lookup utility cheat sheet

An interesting small and quick, cheat sheet for the command dig found on http://www.hackersgarage.com/ Dig – Domain Information Groper is a light weight Linux utility for querying DNS records. It is widely used to diagnose DNS servers, troubleshoot DNS servers, purge DNS Cache using external DNS server and dozen of great features it provides. Here […]

Some useful command with iproute2

As I wrote more than 2 years ago, the network tools (often referred as net-tools) ifconfig, netstat and route that should be familiar to anyone that has worked with a terminal, have been deprecated in favour of the iproute2 suite from some years. iproute2 is intended to replace this entire suite of legacy Unix networking […]

Half Life and Counter Strike on GNU/Linux through Steam

I used to play these games around 10 years ago or more, and without any other option available I had a second partition with windows 98 as “game station”, somewhere I should still have the original boxes and perhaps I should start to search for them, because now they have (finally !!) arrived on Linux. […]