Introduction Encrypting removable devices (USB flash drives, external hard drives, etc) provides a method to guarantee data security in the event of loss, theft or confiscation. When backing up personal information onto external storage, encryption is a recommended preparation for the filesystem. Recent versions of Gnome will now support encrypted filesystems on removable storage by prompting ..
Here we look at the basic scripting options for dstat as well as an overview of its external modules. All-powerful Well, not that. But it can feel a little like that when you fiddle with some more advanced aspects of dstat. Because it can do an awful lot. In the first article of this series ..
e will provide instructions for Installing Munin Monitoring Systems on Ubuntu and Centos/Fedora/Redhat. Munin is a monitoring system that will provide you with your Server stats on a simple to read website. There are two parts of Munin Monitoring Software, Munin Master and Munin node. Muninin Server is the software website and configuration for what ..
For a flexible reporting tool that can yield information ranging from CPU use to the top I/O-consuming process look no further than dstat. All-seeing Well, maybe not “all-seeing”, but it made for a catchy header. Though dstat does come pretty close when it comes to observing what’s happening on your system. You can use dstat to look ..
x11vnc x11vnc is a VNC server that is not dependent on any one particular graphical environment. Also, it facilitates using in a minimal environment, as it has a tcl/tk based GUI. It can be started while your computer is still showing a login screen. It is helpful to ensure you have uninstalled any other VNC programs ..
Introduction Nginx is a popular light-weight and high performance web server and commonly used as a proxy. It is quite flexible and a good alternative to Apache. Requirements Install Nginx Many distributions include Nginx as part of the default distribution repository. However, this version can become outdated and it is recommended installing from a repository ..
Overview Readers will learn how to enable WAN failover on the EdgeRouter. EdgeMAX can handle multiple WANs with failover. For a more recent article that shows this implementation with automatic failover, visit here. My interface setup is as follows: eth0 – WAN – IP: 10.75.1.2 / Gateway 10.75.1.1 eth1 – LAN – IP: 192.168.1.1 eth2 – ..
Overview Readers will learn how to enable WAN failover on the EdgeRouter. EdgeMAX can handle multiple WANs with failover. For a more recent article that shows this implementation with automatic failover, visit here. My interface setup is as follows: eth0 – WAN – IP: 10.75.1.2 / Gateway 10.75.1.1 eth1 – LAN – IP: 192.168.1.1 eth2 – ..
Elasticsearch users have delightfully diverse use cases, ranging from appending tiny log-line documents to indexing Web-scale collections of large documents, and maximizing indexing throughput is often a common and important goal. While we try hard to set good general defaults for “typical” applications, you can quickly improve your indexing performance by following a few simple ..
1. List all Open Files with lsof Command In the below example, it will show long listing of open files some of them are extracted for better understanding which displays the columns like Command, PID, USER, FD, TYPE etc. # lsof COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME init 1 root cwd DIR 253,0 4096 2 / init 1 ..
