• home cd ~
      • MFS: Using a RAM Filesystem
      • Mounting a Filesystem in Multiple Places Simultaneously
      • Activating the Serial Port on FreeBSD
      • Activating Kernel Modules
      • Modifying Your Generic Kernel
        • Installing FreeBSD on ZFS
        • Monitoring CPU Temperature on FreeBSD
        • Creating an Apple Time Machine Network on FreeBSD
        • Modifying Boot Parameters
        • OpenBSD Configuration Guide (Very Complete)
        • Recovering your OpenBSD after a bad manipulation
        • OpenBSD Package System
      • Migration: Migrating Linux accounts to BSD
        • IP Filter: Using the Firewall on Solaris
      • Configure Network on NetBSD
      • Configuring Network on FreeBSD
      • UFS: Disk usage in UFS
      • VLAN: Creating a VLAN Interface on OpenBSD
      • Configure Network on OpenBSD
      • Trunking: Creating Trunking (bonding) on OpenBSD
      • Bandwidth Usage Statistics
      • QoS (Quality Of Service) with PF
      • FreeBSD Package System
      • Encrypting Swap Partition
      • Jailctl: Creating Chroot Environments (Jails)
      • Introduction to C
      • Some examples of CMake usage
      • Better Understanding and Using the C Language Preprocessor
      • Introduction to XHTML
      • CSS: Style Sheets
      • Special Characters
      • Text Formatting
      • Java Memory Management
      • Debugging a JVM Crash
      • Introduction to PowerShell
      • Introduction to Perl
      • Object-Oriented Programming in Perl
      • My Perl Scripts That Can Serve as Exercises
      • Learning Perl 6
      • Compile Your PHP Scripts
      • Introduction to PHP
      • Securing PHP Scripts
      • My Python Scripts That Can Serve as Exercises
      • Introduction to Python
      • Introduction to Shell Scripting
      • Different Shell Script Loops
      • Debugging a Shell Script
      • Introduction to SQL
      • SQL Injections
      • Address Space Protection: State of the Art in Linux and OpenBSD
      • Penetration Testing
      • Grimwepa: Easy WiFi Hacking
      • Hidden (or Covert) Channels
      • PSAD: Protection Against nmap-Type Scans
      • Scapy: Data Frames and Packets
      • Man in the Middle
      • Reverse Engineering with LD_PRELOAD
      • ARP Spoofing in a Switched Network
      • Altering ARP Tables
        • Anti-forensics on ext2/ext3 Filesystems
        • Finding passwords from the Windows SAM database
        • Arbitrary Code Injection and Execution in Another Process Memory Space
        • Shatter Attack Technique
        • Fuzzing - Tutorial on Using and Customizing a Fuzzer for Vulnerability Research
        • Download and Execute ShellCode: Optimized and Detailed Code of a Download/Execute ShellCode for Windows
        • Finding the base address of kernel32.dll: Three methods PEB, SEH and TopStack
      • DNS Protocol Security Audits
      • Cryptology and Prime Numbers: The RSA Algorithm
        • OpenSSH FAQ
        • Belier: Script Your SSH Connection
        • Bypassing HTTPS Proxies for SSH
        • Reverse Tunneling with OpenSSH
        • Creating a VPN with OpenSSH
        • Chroot SSH Accounts
        • Setting up an SSH Bouncer Server for Your SSH Connections
        • Securing OpenSSH
        • Fanout: Run the Same Command on Multiple Machines Simultaneously
        • Sed & Awk: Some Examples of These Wonders
        • Jobs: How to Use Jobs
        • Cpulimit: Limit CPU Usage
        • Tmux: The Terminal Multiplexer Replacing Screen
        • Screen: Most Used Commands
        • Redirect a Service Output to a File
        • The find command or the power of search
        • Execute Commands at Logout
        • ZSH: A Very Practical Shell
        • Date: Advanced Usage of the Date Command
        • Finding Broken Symbolic Links
        • Removing Superfluous Elements in Text Files
        • Batch Renaming Elements
        • Most Used Commands List
        • Chat with Users on the Same Machine via Terminal
        • Find all dependencies related to a package
        • Locate Large Files and Directories
        • Pstree: List Processes as a Tree
        • How to Kill a Crashed Application or Handle a Frozen Screen
        • Unix Toolbox: All Useful Commands
        • Differences between du and df
        • Command-line Burning
        • MOTD: Modifying the Console Opening Message
        • Xterm: Customizing the Display
        • Fifo and Cat: Share a Session with Multiple Users
        • Kill and lsof: Killing the process listening on a specific port
        • Ivconv: Text Transcoding to Any Character Set
        • Environment Variables
        • Console Colorization
        • Sipcalc: Subnet Calculator
        • Shell: Batch Renaming with Counter
        • Vim: Essential Commands & Quick Reference Card
        • Vim: Essential Commands and Quick Reference Card
        • Introduction to Vi
        • Emacs: Quick Reference Card
      • Yubikey: Configure Your Yubikey with PAM
      • MFi: Install a Ubiquiti server to manage powerstrips
      • ZNC: Use a Bouncer to Get History
      • CPUBurn: Stress Testing Your CPU
      • Weechat: A User Friendly IRC Client
      • Gnuplot: Graph Data Easily
      • Crontab: Usage
      • Task Scheduling
      • Mirroring a Website
      • BusyBox: Creation and Usage of a BusyBox
      • FTP: Automate Transfers
      • Linux-Unix Cheat Sheets - The Ultimate Collection
      • Restarting difficult services
      • Patches: Creating and Applying Patches
      • Strace and Ltrace: Trace System and Library Calls
      • Perl Locale Issues
      • Generate a Configure File for Pre-make
      • Failed Compilations
        • Vino: The VNC Server of Excellence for GNOME
        • VNC: Listen Mode on Linux
      • Infinality fonts for retina display
      • How to install and configure a monitoring machine for supervision
      • Awesome: A Lightweight and Powerful Desktop
      • Synergy: Multi-screen Setup with Multiple Computers
      • GNOME Shell: Using Settings to Configure Your Desktop
      • Gnome-shell: Automatic Wallpaper Change
      • Zenity: GUI for Your Scripts Easily
      • Disable Sound in GDM
      • Gnome: Locked Dashboards
      • Xmodmap: Map All Your Mouse Buttons
      • Disable the PC Speaker Beep
      • Restart X
      • Using the Numeric Keypad as a Mouse with X
      • Wacom: Setting up the Wacom Bamboo
      • Export a Display or Forward an X11 Connection
      • Numlockx: Enabling the numeric keypad at boot
      • Fluxbox: Rounded Corners for All Windows
      • Compiz: Setting Up a 3D Desktop
        • Resize Swap
        • Software RAID Configuration
        • Optimization of extX filesystems and RAID under Linux
        • Linux RAID Performance
        • Recovering Data from a RAID1 LVM
        • LUKS: Encrypting Your Partitions
        • EncFS: Setting up EncFS with FUSE
        • Solutions for Encrypted LVM System
        • Cryptoloop: Setting Up an Encrypted Folder
        • TrueCrypt: Portable Data Encryption
      • LVM: Working with Logical Volume Management
      • Optimizing Hard Disk Performance on Linux
      • Foremost: Recover Deleted Data
      • Clone a Hard Drive
      • ACL: Implementing NT-type Permissions on Linux
      • AutoSSH: Automatically Reconnect SSH Tunnels
      • Parted: Solving Partitioning Problems on Large Filesystems
      • BTRFS: Using the Ext4 Replacement
      • Tmpfs: RAM filesystem or how to write to RAM
      • ZFS On Linux: Setting up ZFS on Linux
      • Smartmontools: Hard Drive Monitoring
      • Scalpel: Recovering Deleted Data
      • Limiting I/O usage by an application
      • SWAP: Creating Dynamic Swap
      • Filesystem Conversion
      • No space left on device while there is space available
      • Incron: Execute Automatic Actions When File States Change
      • Setting up quotas on Linux
      • Anatomy of a Linux Filesystem
      • AutoFsck: Changing Filesystem Checks on Ubuntu
      • TestDisk: Recovering Lost Data
      • Creating Blank Images for Testing Filesystems
      • Ext3: Resize partitions without data loss
      • Hdparm: Optimizing Disk Access
      • FUSE: Unable to Mount Disks Due to /dev/fuse
      • Recompile your kernel
      • Process Latency and Kernel Timing
      • Queueing Theory
      • Linux Memory Management
      • Memory Caches
      • Memory Addressing and Allocation
      • Linux Process and Scheduler Management
      • Udev: Using a Socket to Communicate with Kernel Devices
      • Kexec: Optimize Your Boot Times
      • Sysctl: Configuring Kernel Options in Linux
      • SystemTap: Profile and Quickly Use Kernel Features
      • OProfile: Profile Your System
      • Securing Your Kernel with Grsecurity and PaX
      • Managing Zombie Processes in Linux
      • Understanding the Content of /proc
      • Strengthening Linux Kernel Security Functions
      • Initramfs: Fixing Kernel Boot Issues with Initramfs
      • Modifying Source Version
      • How to Check the Page Size of Your Machine
      • Kernel: Module Compilation
        • Cron-apt: Automatic Security Updates Installation
        • How to use old Debian repository for unmaintained Debian versions
        • Integrit: Add an integrity control tool on your Debian
        • Automate Debian Installation
        • Debian: Reinstalling a Server Almost Identically
        • Checking File Integrity on Debian
        • Installing Debian on a Mac in Single Boot
        • Recompile a Software the Debian Way
        • Advanced Usage of Debian Packages
        • Modifying CPU Frequency
        • Broadcom Drivers and Debian
        • Creating a Debian Repository
        • Debian: Changing Default Tools (e.g., Editor)
        • Debian: No More Dependency Errors When Configuring From Source
        • Debian: GPG Error During apt-get update
        • SoSReport: Generate and analyze machine reports
        • Creating a RedHat Package from a Tar File
        • Creating a Red Hat Kickstart to Automate Installations
        • Yum: Package Management in Red Hat
        • Restore permissions on Red Hat
        • RPM: Build a Binary RPM Package from Sources on Red Hat
        • Creating a RedHat DVD from CDs
      • Systemd: How to Debug on Boot Failure
      • Vagrant: Quickly Deploy Virtual Machines
      • Sysstat: Essential Tools for Analyzing Performance Issues
      • Activating the Serial Port on Linux
      • GRUB: Using a Bootloader
      • Connect to Debian via Serial Port
      • Disable Screen Standby on Debian
      • DrawIt: A VIM Extension for Creating ASCII Diagrams
      • Converting Unix Timestamp to Date
      • GS: Merge Multiple PDFs Into One
      • Measuring Execution Time of One or Multiple Commands
      • Sending Emails from Command Line
      • Sudo: Running commands as root without being root
      • Manipulating Images via Command Line
      • Getting Hardware Information from a Machine
      • Linux: Launching Daemons at Boot
      • IRC: Setting up an IRC server with UnrealIRCD and Anope Services
      • Understanding Time Management in Linux
      • VirtualBox: VMware Alternative
      • Understanding Load Average
      • Installing Mac OS X and Ubuntu in Dual Boot
      • Linux Boot Process
      • Replacing an installed RedHat with Debian without formatting
      • Enabling and Disabling Screen Savers from Command Line
      • Wine: Running Windows Applications on Linux
      • Activating the Numeric Keypad
      • How to Check BIOS Version Without Rebooting
      • Creating an ISO Image
      • Gentoo: Using Portage
      • Gentoo: Getting Started
      • RAM Information
      • Uncompress for Different Formats
      • SABnzbd: A Web Interface for Managing Newsgroups
      • Switch audio output to another USB device
      • Newznab: Setting up a Usenet Indexer
      • Sick-Beard: A PVR Relying on SABnzbd
      • Video Conversions
      • Advanced Usage of MediaWiki
      • Converting WMA to MP3
        • Netcat: File Transfer
        • Netcat: Creating a Listening Port
        • Netcat: Usage
        • Netcat: Remote Partition Backup
        • OpenSSH: SSH Key Exchange
        • OpenSSH: Creating an SSH SOCKS Proxy
        • OpenSSH : Tunneling VPN
        • OpenSSH: Graphical Window Forwarding
        • OpenSSH: Using Stepstones
        • OpenSSH: SSH Connection Multiplexing
        • OpenSSH HPN (High Performance): Implementation and Installation
      • Dnsmasq and dhclient: use a specific DNS for a specific domain
      • Trickle: Limit Your Application Bandwidth
      • Make Network Card LEDs Flash
      • Rename Network Interfaces to ethX
      • Proxychains: Proxy Any Outbound Connection
      • IP: Network Interface Management Command
      • Network: Creating Bonding
      • Cisco VPN Client: Installation on Red Hat 6
      • Displaying Active Machines on the Current Network
      • Check Connections Per IP
      • Bwm-ng: Measure Bandwidth Consumption in Real Time
      • DNS FQDN Name Resolution in Local Network
      • Kernel and Network: Pushing the Limits of Connectivity
      • Iperf: Testing End-to-End Bandwidth
      • IPv6: Complete Removal, IPv4 Only on Debian
      • Configuring a Local Network on Debian and Ubuntu
      • Ifrename: Renaming Network Cards Without Using Udev
        • APT: Adding Release Preferences for Specific Packages
        • Apt & Aptitude: Useful Commands
        • Apt-cacher-ng: Setting Up a Proxy for APT
        • Apt-file: Searching for Files That Prevent Compilation
        • Adding Red Hat DVD as a Repository
      • Fail2ban: Implementing automated iptables rules to counter bruteforce attacks
      • Acct: The Ultimate Keyfinder
      • Lshell: Limiting Shell Capabilities
      • Ulimit: Using System Limits
      • Secure Your Architecture with SELinux
      • Force User to Change Password at First Login
      • Encrypt and Decrypt a File with OpenSSL
      • Freeze a Machine by CPU Overload
      • Encrypting a Password with MD5
      • GnuPG: Encrypt Your Emails
      • Xinetd: Securing Services
      • Mount Disk Images from Command Line
      • Hdiutil: Creating a DVD ISO from a VIDEO TS folder
      • Compiling with GCC on Multiple Architectures (e.g., PPC and Intel)
      • Calibrating Your Laptop Battery
      • Clearing DNS Cache on Mac OS X
      • Viewing Hidden Files and Folders in Mac OS X
      • Hide an Open Application from the Dock and Switcher
      • MacFuse + NTFS-3G: Reading and Writing NTFS Partitions on Mac OS X
      • Installing OSX from an External Drive
      • Switching to Case-Sensitive File System on Mac OS X
      • Modifying the firmware with OpenWrt
      • Enabling SSH on the Fonera+
      • Modify the firmware with FrancoFON
      • Gmail: Having Multiple Email Addresses with a Single Gmail Account
      • Google Search Tips
      • Beamer: Create Beautiful LaTeX Presentations
      • LaTeX Template for Creating Cheat Sheets
      • OpenElec: Multimedia Solution for Raspberry Pi
      • Repairing a GoPro Hero Video
      • Reboot Your Freebox Server 6 via Command Line
      • BIOS Beep Codes and Their Meanings
      • Installing pfSense on Soekris
      • Upgrading the Soekris BIOS
      • OpenBSD Configuration and Installation via Serial Port on Soekris
      • Analyzing Network Equipment and Network Configurations
      • Configuring a Catalyst Switch
      • Capturing connections on an interface
      • Installation from Scratch of a Cisco Pix
      • Completely Reset a Cisco Configuration
      • Basic Configuration of a Cisco PIX
      • BGP Protocol and its Security
      • Network Flows
      • TCP Flags
        • Setting up a FreeRadius server
        • DaloRADIUS: Setting up a FreeRadius server with DaloRADIUS web interface
        • Apache SSO Authentication on AD Backend via Kerberos
        • Kerberos: Setting up a Kerberos Server
        • Authenticating Solaris Accounts on Active Directory
        • LDAP: Installation and Configuration of an LDAP Directory
        • Setting up a Synchronization Solution between ActiveDirectory and OpenLDAP
        • PhpLDAPadmin: Setting Up a Graphical Management Solution for OpenLDAP
        • LDAP: Installation and Configuration of a Secondary LDAP Directory
        • PAM Time: Setting Login Restrictions
        • PAM Cracklib: Configure Password Complexity
        • PAM-script: Execute Scripts at Authentication, Session Open and Close
        • PAM: Install pam_mkhomedir for Automatic User Home Directory Creation
        • PAM mount: Automatically Mount Network Shares at Login
        • PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module): Choosing Authentication Methods
        • PAM Mount and SshFS with Password Authentication
        • LemonLDAP::NG: More than just SSO
        • OpenID: Authentication Centralization
        • CAS: Setting Up an SSO Server
      • Rsync: Incremental Backup
      • BackupPC: A Complete Backup Tool
      • Unison: Backup like rsync but bidirectional
      • Amazon S3: Clean and Automated Backups with Amazon S3
      • Bacula: Setting Up a High-Performance Backup Server
      • ZRM: Automated Backups and Easy Restorations
      • Backups and Restorations with tapes
      • Rdiff-backup: Incremental Remote Backups
      • DevStack: Quickly Develop or Test OpenStack
      • OwnCloud: Create Your Personal Cloud
        • PuppetDB: Enhance Your Puppet Functionality
        • Puppet: Configuration File Management Solution
        • MCollective: Run Actions in Parallel on Remote Machines
        • Puppet Dashboard: Setting up a Graphical Interface for Puppet
      • Ansible: A Powerful Agentless Configuration Management and Orchestrator Solution
        • OpenVZ: Setting Up OpenVZ
        • WebVZ: Manage OpenVZ VMs with a Web Interface
        • Configuration and Usage of Solaris Zones (Containers)
        • Installing HA Zones with ZFS and Solaris Cluster
      • LXC: Install and configure the Linux Containers
      • Docker: Manage Containers Easily with Advanced Features
      • VServer: Setting Up VServer
        • MariaDB Galera Cluster: Multi-Master Replication
        • MySQL: Installation and Configuration
        • MariaDB: Migration from MySQL
        • XtraBackup: Optimizing Your MySQL Backups
        • MySQL: Backups, Restorations and Transfers
        • Replication Master to Master
        • MysqlTuner: Optimizing Your MySQL Server
        • Using MySQL
        • Purging MySQL Binary Logs
        • Running Multiple MySQL Instances on Solaris
        • PhpMyAdmin: Installation and Configuration
        • GreenSQL: Preventing SQL Injections with GreenSQL
        • Repairing MyISAM and InnoDB Databases
        • Setting up a MySQL Proxy
        • MySQL Cluster Load Balanced with Heartbeat
        • MySQL Replication Master to Slave
        • ElasticSearch: Powerful Search and Analytics Engine
        • PostgreSQL Installation and Configuration
        • Slony-I: Database Replication for PostgreSQL
        • PhpPgAdmin: Installation and Configuration
      • Sybase: Installation and Configuration
        • Advanced usage of Bind
        • Installing and Configuring a Primary Bind9 Server (Master)
        • NamedManager: A Nice Web Interface to Manage Bind
        • Bindgraph: Get Statistics and Graphs of DNS Queries
        • Securing a Bind Architecture
        • Installation and Configuration of a Bind9 Secondary (Slave) Server
        • Setting up a Bind server with LDAP backend
        • PowerAdmin: An Administration Interface for PowerDNS
        • PowerDNS: Creating a DNS Cache Server
        • PowerDNS: Creating a Master DNS Server
      • Unbound: Implementing a Next Generation DNS Server
        • Exchange: Repairing and Defragmenting Databases
        • Postfix: Limit Outgoing Mail Throttling
        • Postfix: hold outgoing mail transport
        • Installation and Configuration of Postfix and Courier
        • Simulate a black hole for a domain with Postfix
        • Running a Command When Receiving an Email
        • SASL: Secure Remote Email Sending with Postfix Server (SASL+TLS)
        • Troubleshooting mails with Postfix
        • Virtual Domains
        • Setting up an Antivirus (ClamAV and Amavis)
        • Secondary MX: Setup
        • Dkfilter: Proxy SMTP (Signature Mails) Made by Yahoo
        • Postsuper: Mass Deletion of Emails in the Queue
        • SSL: Certificate Management
        • Swaks - Swiss Army Knife SMTP
        • SpamAssassin Installation and Configuration
        • FuzzyOcr Plugin: Image Spam Detection (OCR Detection)
        • Fight Spam More Effectively - Additional Rules
        • Spam Reinjection for Testing
        • OpenSPF: Setting up OpenSPF
        • SPF (Sender Policy Framework): Prevention of Email Address Forgery
      • Getmail - An Alternative to Fetchmail
      • Z-Push: Setting Up an ActiveSync Server with Postfix (or How to Set Up Push Mail)
      • Setting up a complete antispam server
      • Setting up a Courier POP3 server with SSL
      • SquirrelMail: Setting up a Simple yet Advanced Webmail
      • AlterMIME: Automatically Add a Disclaimer to Outgoing Emails
      • Fetchmail - The Ultimate Mail Collector
      • Procmail: Filtering emails at the source
      • Postgrey: Setting Up Greylists to Fight Spam
      • IMAP Mailbox Synchronization
        • iSCSI: Setting up an iSCSI Server
        • Creating an iSCSI Share Between Solaris and Debian
        • Installing and configuring Samba as a Domain Controller
        • Trick Samba Share Size Display
        • Installation and Configuration of Samba in 'User' Mode
        • Problems with saving Office, Adobe... file types
        • Mounting a Windows Share from Samba
        • Installation and Configuration of Samba in User Mode (Authentication on an OpenLDAP Server)
        • Installation and Configuration of Samba in ADS Mode (Authentication on an AD Server)
        • Installation and Configuration of Samba in "Share" Mode
        • Network Recycle Bin
        • SSLH: Multiplexing SSL and SSH connections on the same port
        • Vsftpd: Setting up virtual hosts with MySQL
        • MySecureShell: Setting up a Secure File Transfer Solution
        • PhpFtpWho: Connection Monitoring for Proftpd
      • NFS: Setting up an NFS Server
      • AOE: Setting Up an ATA Over Ethernet Server
      • Setting up a Unix systems specialized Home server
      • UploadTool: Setting up a file sharing tool via Apache
      • AutoFS: Mounting and Unmounting Shares
        • HAProxy: Load Balance Your Traffic
        • Load Balancing and Fail Over for Web Services
        • Installation and Configuration of a Heartbeat V2 Cluster
        • Installation and Configuration of a Heartbeat V1 Cluster
        • Pound: Installation and Configuration of a Reverse Proxy
        • Installation and Configuration of KeepAlived/Pound with Failover and Session Support
        • Installation and Configuration of Red Hat Cluster Suite
        • Installing a Red Hat 4 Cluster
        • Ceph: Performance, Reliability and Scalability Storage Solution
        • Installation and Configuration of DRBD
        • GFS2: Red Hat Cluster Filesystem
        • OCFS2: Oracle's Cluster File System
        • GlusterFS: High Availability Cluster Filesystem
        • Installation and Configuration of SUN Cluster
        • Setting up a quorum server
        • Installation of Sun Cluster
        • Upgrading SUN Cluster
        • Introduction and Architecture of Setting Up a SUN Cluster
      • Load Balancing Multiple WAN Connections
      • Installation and Configuration of Pacemaker
      • Quickly Grant User Access to Cluster Commands
        • Multipath: Configuring Multiple Paths for External Disk Access
        • Migrating from Multipath to Powerpath on RedHat
        • OpenFire: Installation of OpenFire
        • EJabberd: Setting up a Jabber server (instant messaging)
        • NTP: Creating an NTP Server
        • OpenNTPd: Setting up an NTP server on OpenBSD
        • Satellite: Deploying Red Hat OS via Red Hat Satellite
        • TFTP: PXE Server, OS Deployment under Linux
      • Seafile: Make Your Personal Storage Cloud Easily
      • Firefox Sync Server: Create Your Own Sync Server
      • Sphinx: Setup a Full Text Indexer
      • Firefox: Mass Management on Windows Environment
      • Rancid Search: Setting Up a Search Tool for Rancid
      • CUPS: Setting Up a Print Server
      • MediaTomb: Setting up a multimedia (UPnP) server
      • Asterisk: Setting up Asterisk PBX and Web-Based Provisioning GUI
      • Asterisk: Setting up Asterisk PBX and Web-Based Provisioning GUI
      • OCS Inventory: Setting up Automatic Network Inventory
      • Setting up a Watchdog
      • Setting up a WiFi Hotspot
      • Basic Architecture with Asterisk and Freephonie
      • AvantFax: Setting Up a HylaFax Server with AvantFax
        • Create Your Own Graphs
        • Installation and Configuration of Cacti
        • Observium: An Advanced Interface for Collectd
        • Visage: A Web Interface for Collectd
        • Collectd: Installation and Configuration
        • Heymon: A Web Interface for Collectd
        • Jarmon: A Web Interface for Collectd
        • Collection3: A Web Interface for Collectd
        • Fluentd: Quickly Search in Your Logs with Elasticsearch, Kibana and Fluentd
        • Syslog-ng: Installation and Configuration of Syslog-ng
        • Rsyslog: Installation and Configuration
        • PHP-syslog-ng: Interpretation of Syslog-ng logs in a web interface
        • Tenshi: System Log Analysis
        • Monit: Easily Use Triggers on Your System
        • Munin: Monitor your servers in a very simple way
        • Monitoring Windows with Munin
        • Monit and Munin: Monitor with Munin and Get Alerts with Monit
        • Nagios: Installation and Configuration
        • Email Summary of Current Nagios Alerts
        • Setting up a distributed monitoring solution with Nagios, CheckMK and Thruk
        • Thruk: An Advanced Interface for Nagios and MKlivestatus
        • Check MK: Easily collect Nagios information and extend its capabilities
        • PNP4Nagios: Graph Your Nagios Alerts
        • Nagios: Improving the Look of Notification Emails
        • NDOUtils: Sending States to a Database
        • NagVis: Map Your Architecture with Nagios Alerts
        • Nagios: 2 Load Balancing
      • Glances: All in One Monitoring Shell Tool
      • Shinken: Installation and Configuration of Nagios' Successor
      • MRTG: Network-Focused Monitoring
      • SNMP: The Network Management Protocol
      • Mailgraph: Email Monitoring (Spam, Rejects, Viruses...)
      • RRDtool: Create Your Own Graphics with RRDtool
      • Weathermap4RRD: Creating Monitoring Maps
      • Installation and Configuration of a Centreon Server
      • Oreon: Setting up a simplified and more elegant solution for Nagios
      • Smokeping: Monitoring Latency
      • Xen and vserver: monitoring VMs on a PHP page
      • Watchdog: Hardware Problem Detection
        • DHCP: Installation and Configuration of a DHCP Server
        • Setting up DHCP Failover
        • OpenVPN: Setting up OpenVPN on different platforms
      • Setting up VLAN
      • NTOP: Installation and Configuration of NTOP (Network TOP)
        • Basic IPTables Commands
        • Iptables: Configuration Examples
        • Launch Firewall Rules Before Interfaces Come Up
        • Nfqueue: Filter Thousands of IP Addresses (e.g., by Country)
        • Introduction to Packet Filter
        • Packet Filter: Fighting Against Brute Force Attacks
        • Introduction to IDS and SNORT
        • Setting up Snort & BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine)
      • Create a PKI
      • Banners: Hiding Application Banners (Service Banner Faking)
      • Rinetd: Simply and Quickly Forward to Other Machines
      • Stunnel: Creating an SSL Tunnel
      • Rkhunter: Detection of rootkits and malware
        • CVS Installation and Configuration
        • CVS: Using CVS
        • Setting up ACLs for CVS
        • Setting Up a Git Server and Client
        • Gitweb: Installation and configuration of a web interface for git
        • Nginx Git and Gitweb
        • Installation and Configuration of an SVN Repository
        • SVK: Creating a Read-Only Mirror for SVN
        • KVM: Setting Up KVM
        • Converting a VMware Disk Image for Qemu or Xen
        • Migrating from Xen to KVM
        • QEMU: Windows Installation
        • Setting up Xen
        • XenServer 5.0: Tips & Tricks
        • XenServer 5.0: Configuring XenServer with SUN Hardware
        • XenServer 4.1: Changing the Management Interface
        • Converting VMware Images to Xen
        • Ganeti: Xen Cluster Management
        • Xen Conversion P2V
        • Xen with Bonding + VLAN Tagging
        • Port forwarding from dom0 to bridged domU with IPVS
        • Theme for Apache Directory Index Listing
        • Proxy: Creating a proxy with Apache
        • Real-time monitoring of your Apache server
        • Apache 2 Installation and Configuration
        • Mixing Apache Authentication
        • WebDAV: Securing with SSL
        • Memcached: Setting up a Cache Server for Apache
        • Setting up SSL certificates with Apache 2
        • Securing Apache with mod_security
        • Slotlimit: Apache Module to Limit Apache Resources
        • Geolocation with Apache 2
        • Load Balancing with Apache 2
        • Varnish: a website accelerator
        • Lighttpd: Installation and configuration of an Apache alternative
        • WebDAV with Lighttpd
        • Setting up OpenSSL with Lighttpd
        • Vlogger: Splitting Lighttpd logs with statistics generation
        • Nginx: Installation and Configuration as an Apache Alternative
        • NAXSI: Integrate a WAF for Nginx
        • PageSpeed: Optimize Your Rendered Code On The Fly
        • Nginx + Varnish: Cache even in HTTPS by offloading SSL
        • HTTP Substitutions Filter: Multiple Filters with Regex on Response Bodies
        • TinyProxy: Setting up a Simple and Fast Proxy
        • Squid: Installation and Configuration of Squid
        • SafeSquid: Setting Up a Content Filtering Proxy
        • SafeSquid: Coupling with ClamAV to Filter Viruses on Incoming Traffic
      • Managing SSL Certificates Signed by a Certificate Authority
      • Tomcat: Setting up a Tomcat server
      • Benchmark Your Website
      • Selenium: Task Automation for Web Environments
      • Checking Your Website Security with Nikto
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    LVM: Working with Logical Volume Management

    How to create, manage, and optimize logical volumes on Linux systems using LVM for flexible storage …

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    Optimizing Hard Disk Performance on Linux

    This guide explains how to optimize disk performance on Linux, covering both mechanical hard drives …

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    Foremost: Recover Deleted Data

    How to use the Foremost forensic tool to recover deleted files based on their headers, footers, and …

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    Clone a Hard Drive

    Various methods to clone hard drives in Linux systems including dd, cat, partimage, and over network …

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    ACL: Implementing NT-type Permissions on Linux

    Learn how to implement NT-type permissions (ACLs) on Linux systems to extend file access control …

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    AutoSSH: Automatically Reconnect SSH Tunnels

    Learn how to use AutoSSH to maintain persistent SSH tunnels that automatically reconnect if the …

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    Parted: Solving Partitioning Problems on Large Filesystems

    Guide on how to use the Parted tool to solve partitioning issues with large filesystems and disks …

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    BTRFS: Using the Ext4 Replacement

    Learn how to use BTRFS filesystem, the replacement for ExtX, including creating partitions, …

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    Tmpfs: RAM filesystem or how to write to RAM

    A guide on how to create and use a temporary filesystem in RAM for fast access and temporary storage

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    ZFS On Linux: Setting up ZFS on Linux

    A guide to installing and configuring ZFS filesystem on Linux distributions, including Ubuntu and …

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    Smartmontools: Hard Drive Monitoring

    How to install and configure Smartmontools to monitor hard drive health and performance on various …

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    Scalpel: Recovering Deleted Data

    How to use Scalpel tool to recover deleted files and folders from your hard drive.

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    Limiting I/O usage by an application

    Learn how to identify and limit I/O usage by applications to improve system performance and …

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    SWAP: Creating Dynamic Swap

    Guide on how to create and manage dynamic swap space in Linux through partition-based and …

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    Filesystem Conversion

    Guide on how to convert filesystems without reformatting, focusing on converting from ext3 to ext4.

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    No space left on device while there is space available

    How to troubleshoot 'No space left on device' errors when disk space seems available by checking …

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    Incron: Execute Automatic Actions When File States Change

    Guide on using Incron (file trigger system) to execute automatic actions when file states change in …

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    Setting up quotas on Linux

    A guide on how to implement and manage disk quotas on Linux systems to control user disk space …

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    Anatomy of a Linux Filesystem

    Documentation explaining how Linux filesystems work and their structure

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    AutoFsck: Changing Filesystem Checks on Ubuntu

    Learn how to modify filesystem check behavior in Ubuntu using AutoFsck to make them run during …

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    TestDisk: Recovering Lost Data

    A guide on how to recover lost data using TestDisk tool

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    Creating Blank Images for Testing Filesystems

    How to create blank disk images to safely test filesystems without risking your existing partitions

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    Ext3: Resize partitions without data loss

    How to resize Ext3 partitions without data loss, including instructions and procedures to safely …

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    Hdparm: Optimizing Disk Access

    How to optimize disk and optical drive performance on Linux systems using hdparm utility.

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    FUSE: Unable to Mount Disks Due to /dev/fuse

    How to solve the FUSE disk mounting issue when /dev/fuse is missing.