If the Ubuntu Server installer has set your server to use DHCP, you will want to change it to a static IP address so that people can actually use it.
Changing this setting without a GUI will require some text editing, but that’s classic linux, right?
Let’s open up the /etc/network/interfaces file. I’m going to use vi, but you can choose a different editor
sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
Dante is a fully functional SOCKS proxy server and as such has many nobs. Fortunately, setting up a basic configuration that will allow tunneling of things like HTTP is relatively simple. If you’re running Debian GNU/Linux, simply run:
# apt-get update
# apt-get install dante-serverremember! Dante is a SOCKS host NOT an HTTP proxy, you are going to get all sorts of weird errors if you get this wrong.
The configuration file is locate in
# cat /etc/danted.conf
If you have a server with a world facing ssh server, you’ve probably seen brute force attacks in your logs. Some machine starts hammering your ssh server, trying all sorts of logins (staff, root, a, admin, etc…) over and over and over again.
This is bad on a lot of fronts.
I was looking for a lightweight, easy to use systems performance log for a Debian 5.5 server and came across Webminstats
Systats is a Webmin module that tracks cpu, memory, disk and io statistics over time.
It doesn’t install without a few additions to the standard Debian install.
Both Linux and UNIX include various commands for Compressing and decompresses (read as expand compressed file). To compress files you can use gzip, bzip2 and zip commands. To expand compressed file (decompresses) you can use and gzip -d, bunzip2 (bzip2 -d), unzip commands.
by garron.me
scp stands for secure cp (copy), which means you can copy files across ssh connection. That connection will be securely encrypted, it is a very secure way to copy files between computers
You can use scp to copy files from or to a remote server. You can also copy files from one remote server to another remote server, without passing traffic through your PC.
You can use scp on Linux, Mac and Windows (using WinSCP).
As default Ubuntu has no password set for the root user.
To gain root access you have to type in your own user password.
This is the password you set for the first user while installing Ubuntu.
To manually set a password for the root user, type in the following in the shell:
sudo passwd After that you are asked to type in the new root password twice.
Finally, your root user has its own password.
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
In this tutorial I use the hostname server1.example.com with the IP address 192.168.0.100. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.
I’m running all the steps in this tutorial with root privileges, so make sure you’re logged in as root:
sudo su Just over a year I posted how to install VMWare Tools on a Linux Guest Virtual Machine which specifically looks at installing VMWare Tools for Red Hat / CentOS. I recently set up a Debian 5 Lenny virtual machine using VMWare Server and installed the VMWare Tools and the process is fairly similar but I had a couple of issues due to it being a base install with no compiler so thought it a good idea to post how to install VMWare Tools on a Debian 5 Virtual Machine.
Note that the instructions here should work for any version of VMWare Workstation or Server, but I am only currently able to use the VMWare Server 1.0 console. The first instruction below where you select the install vmware tools option may be in a different location for different versions.
Note also that these instructions should also work for Debian derived Linux distros such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mepis, Knoppix etc.
By Andrea Corso
If you want set a static ip on your Ubuntu servers you can do:
# nano /etc/network/interfaces
set your eth0 interface as same:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.1Save and exit. Now launch:
# /etc/init.d/networking restart
# nano /etc/resolv.conf
and put this: nameserver 192.168.0.1. NOTE: the address after nameserver will be the same of gateway!