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 time I need to use them, so I have added a post to my blog to help me be able Read more…
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 the ubuntu cd image repo here Install snapd, snapcraft and lxd sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade sudo apt Read more…
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 before. It assumes that you already have MetaSploit installed and that it works, or that you are running Kali / Read more…
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/ The instructions are pretty easy to follow Install the NetHunter-Store app from https://store.nethunter.com I had to enable install from this source Read more…
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 threats faced in shared hosted environments. It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that Read more…
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 need to access the vagrant box from your network, but if you need to run some testing from an external Read more…
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 will be to gather information on a host and its running services and their versions and vulnerabilities, rather than to Read more…
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 want to keep running apache while still having some of the benefits of fmp – you might even be running Read more…
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 single machine and dont need to access the vagrant box from your network, but if you need to run some Read more…
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 help you too! Removing kernels manually firstly, check your running kernel version uname -a next, show all the installed kernels: Read more…
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 using xmring: dependencies You have to make sure you have homebrew installed (so that you can install the xmrig dependencies), Read more…
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 On the dd-wrt command-line there are a couple of utilities available to let you start and stop services. If your Read more…
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 keep it to the point. jump to:Linux Network ConfigurationBasic Linux Network CommandsAdvanced Linux Network Commands Linux commands for Networking Configuration Read more…
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 centos with minergate using the CLI client. Currently on minergate you can mine: Aeon [AEON] (aeon.cash) Bytecoin [BCN] (bytecoin.org) Bitcoin Read more…
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 have a couple or yum repo’s enabled for this to work properly: webtactic and epel rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh Read more…
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 for, download, and apply updates. Rather than accepting many different command line arguments, the different functions of yum cron can Read more…
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 only use tlsv1.1 and tlsv1.2 with forward secrecy. This post replaces the previous post, and will be updated with the Read more…
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 one I always return to uses find To copy the contents of a directory to multiple other directories find /location/to/folder Read more…
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 a while (I’ve been running iptables since I moved from ipchains), you will no doubt have a big list of Read more…
[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, you need to download vagrant – head over to http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads and copy the url to the current vagrant package in Read more…
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 that mail is sent from external mail services and isn’t received internally in the plesk machine (preventing users getting their Read more…
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 found this post add the following to your ~/.bashrc # Less Colors for Man Pages export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$’\E[01;31m’ # begin blinking Read more…
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 a thread on stack exchange. there were a few suggested answers, and the answer marked as suggested did work, but Read more…
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 customise your terminal command prompt, so I thought id share it with you http://lifehacker.com/5840450/add-a-handy-separator-between-commands-in-your-terminal-on-mac-os-x-and-linux there are other cool things you Read more…
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 mounted in the /path/to/mount folder :)
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 in order to find it later on, hopefully! convmv –lower –notest * you can use *.jpg to rename all jpeg Read more…
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 then open the html file in a browser you will find out all sorts of useful information about your hardware
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 fink or brew to install on a mac. # ssh available by default on osx and linux. lets you log Read more…
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 dont need to type [or remember] passwords You will need two machines (though you probably know this already): remotehost.com – Read more…
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 (rootkit hunter) is a program that takes a fingerprint of installed files and directories in your machine during install and Read more…