October 15, 2024
Observability has become an essential practice for managing systems, especially in complex and distributed environments. It allows system administrators and developers to monitor, measure, and visualize […]
January 1, 2023
Nginx is a high-performance web server that can be used for web server configuration and optimization. In this article, we will discuss how to use Nginx […]
January 1, 2023
As a sysadmin, you may often need to perform tasks on your Linux system at regular intervals, such as backing up data, checking for updates, or cleaning up log files. One way to automate these tasks is to use the cron daemon, which is a built-in Linux utility that runs processes on a schedule.
December 30, 2022
Setting up a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) on Ubuntu can seem intimidating at first, but with a little guidance, it’s actually quite straightforward. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the process step by step, and provide all the necessary code to get your LAMP stack up and running.
December 27, 2022
A multiboot USB drive is a USB drive that contains multiple operating systems, allowing you to boot and run multiple operating systems from a single USB drive.
December 27, 2022
Some multiboot USB software may have additional features or options, such as the ability to customize the boot menu or add additional utilities to the USB drive. Be sure to refer to the documentation for the specific software that you are using for more information.
December 23, 2022
Creating a blog using PHP and MySQL is a relatively straightforward process that can be accomplished by anyone with a basic understanding of web development. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps of setting up a simple blog using PHP and MySQL, complete with code examples and an administration page for managing the blog's content.
December 22, 2022
To manage AD users with PHP and the LDAP extension, you can follow these steps: Iterate through the search results using ldap_first_entry() and ldap_next_entry() to retrieve […]
December 22, 2022
How to kill a specific active SSH session after a defined time interval – version 2 There are a few different ways you can kill […]
February 17, 2022
CentOS 8 will is no longer receiving updates from the official CentOS project.
So, how will you update your CentOS after Dec 31st, 2021?
You will have some options:Migrate to CentOS Stream
December 9, 2020
How to add a GUI on CentOS 7 and connect to it via xRDP – step by step instructions In this tutorial we’ll cover the […]
November 17, 2020
What is Az CLI? The Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) is a set of commands used to manage Azure resources from the command line. It is a […]
January 22, 2020
Azure Cloud silently released some new features to help everyday Azure Cloud Administrators with troubleshooting the "no boot/no ssh" scenario.The efforts into this direction started about 2 years ago with the public release of the "Serial Console" feature, which finally allowed customers to reach out to their VMs from the Azure Portal, without the need of an SSH connection.
April 25, 2019
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer is a widely used tool by all Azure cloud administrators. However, with the increasing number of Linux VMs in the Azure Cloud, having a working version of Azure Storage Explorer on a Linux machine became a necessity, and Microsoft did took the 1st steps into providing one.
July 27, 2018
Since I spend almost every day working with the Azure Cloud, these days I’ve been playing around with the Azure File Share and Linux. One of […]
March 21, 2018
How to kill an active SSH session after a defined time interval ? Every Linux admin has used the idle timeout option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config given […]
December 22, 2017
Today I decided to play around with the Google two factor authentication method on one of my Linux VMs hosted in Azure.
What this means?
Well, my idea was to have a VM that I ususaly login with my SSH key automatically, to prompt me for a code that changes every 30 seconds.
Google Authenticator offers just that.
July 31, 2017
If you have multiple PID files for the same process ( e.g. 1_process_name.pid, 2_process_name.pid, ecc. ) you may have a situation like the one described above.
So, how do you delete the PID files for the processes that are no longer running, without interfering with the running processes?
February 13, 2017
Let’s connect our Cisco switch with our Debian 8 tacacs+ server The first step is to connect to the ASA device and gain privilege exec access. […]
November 17, 2016
About a year ago we needed at work a simple authentication solution for a VPN, but we didn’t had the budget for a standalone solution (like […]
November 14, 2016
Hello, Bellow is a script I put together to notify users via e-mail about their domain account password expiration. The script is set to: notify users […]
