Debian – How to install KVM virtualization

KVM virtualisation is a Kernel based virtualisation. It actually stands for Kernel-based Virtual Machine. It means that each of your virtual machine will have it´s own virtual…

How to create a bootable Debian USB installer

Most of my computers don´t even have a cd/dvd player anymore. It is like when the floppy disappeared. But the world will move on. You can not…

Debian – Remove a package completely

Apt-get remove is not always enough to remove a package completely. If you try to remove in example the mysql-server package with just apt-get remove, the settings…

Debian – Install WPScan to scan wordpress for vulnerabilities

WPScan is a handy tool to scan your wordpress site for vulnerabilities. And it is better you do it your self before someone else do. The official…

Debian – Add USB hard drive

USB drives is a good way of extracting large amounts of data from your servers quickly. And of course a lot of other things. There are a…

Debian – How to install PhpPgAdmin

Always handy with a web based database tool. Here is how to install and access PhpPgAdmin on a Debian variant. First to install the package. apt-get install…

Debian – Replace failed hard drive in software raid 1

I recently had to do a disk replace in a software raid 1 system, running on a Debian KVM host. On my server my first disk (sda)…

Debian – Install PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, another popular sql database server. Here is how to install one in Debian (and Debian variants). However during the Debian installation if you select Database Server,…

Linux – Start, stop and reboot your KVM guests from command line

I prefer using a gui when controlling my virtual machines. Learning how to control them in the most basic way from the command line or terminal is…

Linux – How to copy files with progress bar

When copying very large files it is sometimes frustrating not having a progress bar. Have the process crashed? or etc… I´ve tried rsync and various other options,…