Linux Server and Workstation Configuration How To

1. How To rename network interface in Linux

/sbin/ifconfig ppp1 down /sbin/ip link set ppp1 name my_ppp /sbin/ifconfig my_ppp up  ...

2. IPv6 Configuration on FreeBSD

...  Oct 17 18:39:45 lola gw6c: Authentication success. Oct 17 18:39:45 lola gw6c: Got tunnel parameters from server. Setting up local tunnel. Oct 17 18:39:45 lola gw6c: Executing configuration script: /bin/sh ...

3. Transfer of static routes to DHCP

... 16 (mask) 172.16.0.0 (network) 10.16.40.100 (gateway) here is script to generate content "option classless-route" in hexadecimal notation for older versions of dhcpd: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; ...

4. Released FreeBSD 8.1

... binary upgrade from previous versions, you must do: Download updates: freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.1-RELEASE Install the updates along the way answering the questions concerning the resolution ...

5. Combining two network interfaces under FreeBSD 5.x

The Combination of two 100 Mbit/c network cards into one virtual, with a 200 Mbit/s bandwidth. kldload /boot/kernel/ng_ether.ko kldload /boot/kernel/ng_one2many.ko ifconfig rl0 up ifconfig rl1 up ...

6. How to boot into single user mode (single mode)

FreeBSD: boot -s Solaris: stop+a bo: boot -s Linux: left-alt for lilo boot: linux -b rw sushell=/sbin/sash single (init=/bin/sh) UnixWare: During the boot pres space [boot] INITSTATE=s ...

7. Internet gateway on FreeBSD

... transparent proxy http_port 3129 transparent # List of words that are being discovered in the URL cause processing without caching hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin? # The ACL that cause mismatch with ...

8. HowTo setting up NFS server and client on FreeBSD and Linux

... home/nfs nfs ro 0 0 or manually: /sbin/mount_nfs -r 32768 -w 32768 -i noatime 192.168.1.1: /usr/local/nfs/ home/nfs To optimize performance, is recommended for mounting with Linux to specify options: ...

9. How to Online Backup Innodb Tables

... is the way to minimize this locking time duration to almost non-existent as if performing an online backup. It works by reading the binary log coordinates as soon as the lock has been acquired, and lock ...

10. How to Setup MySQL Listen on Localhost Only

If You want that MySQL listen only to localhost edit the mysql configuration file /etc/my.cnf and change bind-address=127.0.0.1 ...

11. How To Securing SSH Connection

... change PasswordAuthentication no Bind the ssh server to a specific network interface – Edit sshd_config: ListenAddress 192.168.2.12  ...

12. Cron Manual

... -u root /var/spool/cron/root Example of cron file # Cron example file /var/spool/cron/root # (Created for Boot1935) SHELL=/bin/bash MAILTO=root # 1-12 hours * 0,1,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 ...

13. UNIX, Linux Date and Time

...  # hwclock --utc --systohc Configure timezone # timeconfig Date Sync Sync time date with time.nyst.gov # /usr/sbin/ntpdate 192.43.244.18 # /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org # hwclock --systohc new ...

14. Send Mail Script

Mail content text is /tmp/message.txt # mail -s 'Server Status Report' george@example.com -c Jon@example.com < /tmp/message.txt Send Mail With Attachment # !/bin/bash # tar -zcf /tmp/backup.tar.gz ...

15. File Server With Samba and FTP in FreeBSD

... this testu:*:1004:1002:testu:/home/testu:/usr/sbin/nologin testa:*:1005:1003:teata:/home/testa:/usr/sbin/nologin Create groups named 'all' and 'admin' and edit /etc/group file like this all:*:1002:testa ...

16. apropos

... database (called a database whatis), created by the program /usr/sbin/makewhatis. Whatis database is an index of keywords contained in all the man-page system ... ...

17. Default Port Numbers

...  at-rtmp 201/tcp # AppleTalk routing at-rtmp 201/udp at-nbp 202/tcp # AppleTalk name binding at-nbp 202/udp at-echo 204/tcp # AppleTalk echo at-echo 204/udp at-zis 206/tcp # AppleTalk ...

18. Linux, UNIX Directories

Mount Point Explanation / Root directory /bin Main program /boot Used at boot /dev directory Where the registered user devices (modem, mouse, keyboard, etc.) /etc ...

19. OSI Model

...     1 Physical Binary Transmission Bit Defines the electrical, mechanical, procedural, and functional specifications for activating, maintaining, and deactivating physical link Encapsulation ...

20. Linux Timeline

...  BinToo 2006   GNU/Linux Debian 1993   MCC Interim 1992 1995 TAMU 1992 1994 Yqqdrasil 1992 1995 SLS 1992 1994 Bogus 1993 1994 MINI 1995 1995 Xdenu 1994  ...