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,…

This is useful for me when editing my ip ban script. I use the same text file to ban ip´s and sometimes that file is pretty big….

If you have gone through your logs, you will most likely find a lot of login attempts on ssh port. And probably some on the apache service….

Here is how to save your iptables config and make it stick even after a reboot. There is two ways of doing this (at least). We will…

Using RSA certificate will increase your account/server security. You can configure SSH server to only accept RSA certificate for your root user. Here is how to use…

With several Linux computers or servers it can be useful or practical to copy files from one computer to another from the terminal directly. We use a…

The SSH log file is located here (on Debian based systems): /var/log/auth.log And to view it, just type (need root or sudo): cat /var/log/auth.log This file most…

For security reason, and others, it is a good idea to use another user than root. There is several ways of doing this. On a Debian system…