update-rc.d Cheat Sheet
Debian and Ubuntu use the service command to control services and update-rc.d for adding and removing services from start up. Using the service command we can start, stop, restart and display all...
View ArticleSpeed up Multiple apt-get install Requests by Caching the Repository
apt-get is the tool used in Debian and Ubuntu to manage packages installed on the system. Each time an update is available, or you install a new package the files will be downloaded from one of the...
View ArticleCreate SSH Key Authentication Between Nodes
Secure key authentication is one of the more secure ways to grant users access to a Linux server. The standard password authentication which is usually used to login to a server is replaced with an SSH...
View ArticleSet up Fail2ban for Proxmox Web GUI
Fail2ban is an application that scans log files in real time and bans malicious IP addresses based on a set of rules and filters you can set. For this blog post, we’re going to look at capturing...
View ArticleInstall Splunk on Ubuntu
Splunk is the heavyweight open source software which enables you to index, visualise and explore virtually any machine generated data. Splunk is often used to consume Apache and Nginx web server logs...
View ArticleInstall Nginx on Debian/ Ubuntu
Installing Nginx on Debian or Ubuntu is as easy as a single apt-get command, however it does not install the latest version of Nginx. In fact, the latest stable Nginx version is 1.8 and the latest...
View ArticleDownload Oracle Java From The Terminal With wget
Oracle have a very restrictive license that applies to most of their software downloads which prohibits you from distributing the binaries yourself. What this means, for example, is that you could not...
View ArticleHow To Fix A Full /boot Partition on Linux
Utilities such as apt-get generally install kernel updates by adding the new kernel to the Linux boot list and set it as the default. This means that the next time the system boots, the new kernel will...
View ArticleStart Ubuntu Without Starting The Gnome Desktop (text mode)
If you’ve installed a desktop, such as Gnome, on Linux you may not need it all the time. Some of the time taken to boot your machine when you first turn it on is used by loading the GUI and everything...
View ArticleMongoDB 3.2 Bash Install Script
Get Social!The below script installs MongoDB 3.2.x on Debian. Copy and paste the script into a file called install_mongo.sh and execute it as root. [crayon-5791190824130937132195/] Then connect to the...
View ArticleDataStax Cassandra 3.2 Bash Install Script
Get Social!The below script installs the DataStax distribution of Cassandra 3.2.x and the latest Oracle Java 8 on Debian. Copy and paste the script into a file called install_cassandra.sh and execute...
View ArticleInstall DataStax Cassandra 3 on Debain/ Ubuntu
Get Social!The following process will install the DataStax distribution of Cassandra on any Debian based system, such as Debian or Ubuntu. We’ll use the official DataStax apt repositories to install...
View ArticleSimple iptables Rules for Ubuntu/ Debian VPS
Get Social!The following iptables rules are are a starting point to add basic firewall security to a public facing server, such as a public VPS. The primary focus is to stop any inbound traffic other...
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