How to find the ten biggest files or directories in linux
This short blog post will show you a command that will let you find the ten biggest files or directories in linux and osx machines. I forget these commands every…
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snapcraft building arm snaps on raspberry PI
Snapcraft building arm snaps on raspberry pi! This post will focus on wrapping a python script using snap. Its recommended that you do this on ubuntu core 18, available from…
MetaSploit tutorial for beginners
MetaSploit tutorial for beginners This (updated for 2021) MetaSploit tutorial for beginners is meant to be a starting guide on how to use MetaSploit if you have never used it…
Kali linux nethunter on unrooted android – rootless nethunter!
I recently saw this tweet from kali linux https://twitter.com/kalilinux/status/1209615382224547840?s=19 on installing rootless nethunter on an unrooted android device. This is my attempt to do so. The tweet linked here: https://www.kali.org/docs/nethunter/nethunter-rootless/…
Malware detection on Plesk systems
Malware detection on Plesk systems using maldet and clamav Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around the…
Vagrant with sshfs and public network
Vagrant with sshfs. You can use sshfs in vagrant with only a private network. This is fine if you are doing all your devlopment from a single machine and dont…
How to use metasploit to scan for vulnerabilities
Continuing on from my original metasploit beginners tutorial, here is a slightly more advanced Metasploit tutorial on how to use metasploit to scan for vulnerabilities. The outcome of this tutorial…
Php fpm with apache on centos7
This is a short post detailing how to manually setup php fpm with apache on centos7. php fpm is a great solution (especially when used with nginx, but you may…
Vagrant with NFS and public_network
Vagrant with NFS and public_network. You can use NFS in vagrant, but it requires a private_network to work; This is fine if you are doing all your devlopment from a…
How to remove unused kernels in linux
This is a short post on how to remove unused kernels in linux. I'm adding it here because I use it regularly and keep forgetting the commands - it might…
Mining monero in osx using xmring
There are a couple of things you need for mining monero in osx using xmring: 1) A monero wallet (get one from mymonero.com) 2) Homebrew (brew.sh) mining monero in osx…
Dd-wrt web ui crashes
I have a router running dd-wrt. sometimes the dd-wrt web ui crashes and you cant access the interface, but your WAN connection works, and you can still login via ssh…
Linux commands for networking with command line
This post has a collection of Linux commands for networking. There are basic linux network commands, advanced linux network commands and some centos network configuration commands, but I've tried to…
Mining altcoins in centos with minergate
Altcoins exploded in 2015. Minergate is a nice little site that offers various GUI clients for cpu and gpu mining. This is a short little post about mining altcoins in…
Install php7 on centos7
There are a couple of different ways to install php7 on centos7 - Installing yum-plugin-replace and inline-replaceing the whole php subsystem seems to be the easiest way: You need to…
Yum-cron installing and configuring
yum-cron is an alternate interface to yum that is optimised to be convenient to call from cron. It provides methods to keep repository metadata up to date, and to check…
Hardening ssl ciphers
Hardening ssl ciphers. I wrote a post previously about disabling sslv2 and enabling sslv3 and tlsv1. Times have changed since then, its been best-practice for a long time now to…
Copy a file to multiple locations in linux
How to copy a file to multiple locations in linux. cp doesnt let you copy one file to multiple locations; There are a few ways to do this, but the…
Iptables on centos7
This post will show you how to use iptables on centos7. Centos7 has moved its firewall service to firewalld, away from iptables, but if you have been running centos for…
Installing vagrant on centos 7 with virtualbox provider
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" admin_label="section" _builder_version="3.0.47"][et_pb_row admin_label="row" _builder_version="3.0.48" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.0.47" parallax="off" parallax_method="on"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" _builder_version="3.0.74" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat"] This is a short post on Installing vagrant on centos 7. First,…
How to turn off mail for every domain in plesk
Here is a little script that will turn off mail for every domain in plesk! I use it as part of an automated domain creation script to be doubly sure…
Colour man pages
I have been experimenting with the solarized colour palate for my console screens. One thing that I needed was colour man pages (I use man pages all the time) I…
Find files symlinked in linux
I needed to find all the files symlinked in linux that were linked to a certain file. I had a quick search all over the internet, and eventually came up with…
Customise osx bash prompt
customise osx bash prompt: I was reading over an old lifehacker post (I was looking for the bash profiles site, and found this too), its a pretty good way to…
How to mount a macox dmg image file in linux
This post will show you how to mount a macox dmg image file in linux. firstly, open terminal sudo mount -o loop /path/to/image.dmg /place/to/mount now your dmg file will be…
How to convert all filenames in a directory to lowercase on linux
This post will show you how to convert all filenames in a directory to lowercase (or uppercase). This is on that I don't use often, so I'm adding it here…
Find bios version information from linux command line
This will show you how to find bios version information from linux command line terminals. open the terminal / command prompt and run the command: sudo lshw -html > lshw.html…
Cool useful linux and osx commandline tools
This post will show you a few of the cool useful linux and osx commandline tools that I use every day. They are mostly available for osx, but some require…
Ssh with keys for authentication
This will show you how to use ssh with keys for authentication. this has a couple of advantages over using passwords: 1) you can enable key only logins. 2) you…
How to install rkhunter on a linux box and setup a cron job =)
This blog post is quite easy, it shows you how to install rkhunter on a linux machine and how to configure rkhunter to run periodically using a cron job. RKhunter…