February 07, 2008

Useful Commands to Analyze Network Connections Under Linux

Squarebits Blog: Useful Commands to Analyze Network Connections Under Linux -- netstat | grep sequences to count # of SYN_RECV per IP, etc

Posted by mark at 03:20 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

August 17, 2006

Shell Script Repository

[ z a z z y b o b . c o m ] /bin, This site is a home to all things Unix/Linux, with a particular lean towards System Administration, and scripting using bash, ksh, awk, sed, etc.

A large # of cool scripts including, "rmblanks.sed" a quick 'n' dirty sed script to remove blank lines.

Posted by mark at 06:21 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

February 09, 2006

Manually setting the time on a unix server with /bin/date

In case you are unable to set the time on your server automagically, you can do it by hand with this command:
/bin/date -s "2006-02-09 19:10:30" +"%Y-%m-%d %T"

Obviously, put in the correct year/month/day etc.

Posted by mark at 04:12 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack

November 03, 2005

Just upgraded to movable type 3.2

Well, I finally upgraded to MovableType 3.2 after having a 2.x version for a while. I'm hoping that this newer version will inspire me to blog more frequently.

Posted by mark at 03:25 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack

October 24, 2005

System Rescue CD + Secure Deletion

SystemRescueCd is a linux system on a bootable cdrom for repairing your system and your data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic ones (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It aims to be very easy to use: just boot from the cdrom, and you can do everything. The kernel of the system supports most important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), and network ones (samba and nfs).
SystemRescueCd homepage

Another very cool feature is that it includes tools for secure deletion (aka wiping) to ensure that files are really erased from your hard disk.

Posted by mark at 04:35 PM | TrackBack