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Posts tagged centos
Packaging software with RPM, Part 1: Building and distributing packages
Jan 15th
The principal benefit of open source software is, as its name implies, access to the inner workings of an application. Given the source, you can study how an application works; change, improve, and extend its operation; borrow and repurpose code (per the limits of the application’s license); and port the application to novel and emergent platforms.
Linux Default Services Which Are Enabled at Boot
Jan 10th
You need to minimize software to minimize vulnerability. This provides the best possible protection against vulnerable software.
Block an IP Address
Dec 15th
If you think you are being attacked by an IP Address, you could block it by either firewall like: (more…)
Deleting a dir symlink
Dec 11th
Good thing about shells is that they have so many features like tab-completion and bad thing is that these features can sometime turn against you. (more…)
Interface Aliases: a great concept
Nov 24th
Recently i came across a scenario where we have a huge LAN of windows machines and we wanted to have some of them become unable to locate/browser/view other machine on network. There were a lot of solutions possible but i went with the interface aliases, created a new eth0:0, assigned static IP, assigned windows IP, used the IP of alias interface as proxy to browsers (as squid does run on the reserved, which in my case is a given most of the time.) and voila, everything works as required.
