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Apr 12, 2023

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LowEndTalk user htop setup a honeypot to trap ssh passwords. Watch skiddies in real time!

No, ‘airforce’ is Not a Good Password: Check Out This Honeypot

Fedora Gives Up on DeltaRPMs

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Mar 16, 2023

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14 years ago, Fedora had a cool idea: why send an entire RPM when the client only needs a delta from the RPM it already has? Why not just send them deltas? Alas, this idea didn't quite work out.

Command Line Life: Weather at Your Fingertips

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Mar 01, 2023

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Who needs an app or a smart watch or even a thermometer when you've got command-line tools to give you full details about the weather in any major city of the world!

Command Line Life: Weather at Your Fingertips

Put a Glide in Your Stride and a Dip In Your Hip and Use a Mother Script!

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Feb 12, 2023

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In this tutorial, learn how to make your cron-driven shell scripts easier to manage by using a mother script. We'll show you how you'll never have to think about cleaning up temp files again!

Put a Glide in Your Stride and a Dip In Your Hip and Use a Mother Script!

PHP 7 Is Officially Dead

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Nov 29, 2022

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As of today, PHP 7.4 is end of life, which means the PHP 7 version is now officially retired. Some distributions will backport security patches, but really, it's time to move on.

Linux 6.0 is Here! Linus Wants to Pet Your Backends

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Oct 08, 2022

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Comments (4)

No really. That's technical terminology.

Linux 6.0 is Here! Linus Wants to Pet Your Backends

Commifying Numbers in Linux: Not as Easy as it Looks

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Jul 07, 2022

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Today I had a need to process large numbers of PostgreSQL database tables and report how many rows were in each. Once I had that information, I needed to do some additional math on this data and then...

Commifying Numbers in Linux: Not as Easy as it Looks

Free Udemy Courses! Our Community Resource Just Keeps Going

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Jun 09, 2022

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A while back, we alerted you to a thread on LowEndTalk where community member - and now moderator! - @Arkas shared free courses from Udemy. That thread was started in September and the community is st...

Free Udemy Courses! Our Community Resource Just Keeps Going

OpenSSH Suffered a “Near Miss” But is Now Post-Quantum

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Apr 23, 2022

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According to the change log, OpenSSH 9.0 suffered a "near miss" - a potential vulnerability that was found and fixed before anyone could attempt to exploit it: "Near miss in sshd(8): fix an integer ov...

Ramdisks: Why You Might Enjoy One, Plus a Performance Puzzler

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Apr 19, 2022

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A ramdisk - or if you prefer, RAMdisk - is a method of taking a section of memory and treating it as disk. If you think about it for a moment, the pros/cons should be obvious: RAM is much faster than...

Ramdisks: Why You Might Enjoy One, Plus a Performance Puzzler

LowEnd Benchmark Wars Heat Up!

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Apr 13, 2022

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Ok...just kidding. There are no benchmark wars. But if you're into benchmarking, you should check out LowEndTalk member @Liso's fork of the famous YABS script, which is getting some discussion over t...

Here Today, Gone When You Exit: Proper Tempfiles in Shell Scripts

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Apr 09, 2022

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In the course of my career, I've periodically come across code like this in shell scripts: TEMP_FILE=/tmp/tempfile Or sometimes, slightly more elegantly: TEMPFILE=/tmp/tempfile.$$ The problems with th...

Here Today, Gone When You Exit: Proper Tempfiles in Shell Scripts

Tutorial: Moving a Proxmox VM to Different Disk

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Mar 17, 2022

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I've setup a home virtualization lab using ProxMox, which is a free and very powerful virtualization host. Prior to ProxMox, I tried: VmWare ESXi: No clones in the free version? See ya. XCP-ng: Got s...

Tutorial: Moving a Proxmox VM to Different Disk

Run a $8 Million Mainframe at Home for FREE!

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Mar 05, 2022

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In the mid-70s, my father worked in the American automotive industry in Michigan, and I visited him at work as a small boy. He took me into the "computer room" (as they used to call datacenters) and...

Run a $8 Million Mainframe at Home for FREE!

Are You Recyling Old Hardware for Your DIY? The Environment Isn’t Thanking You

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Feb 17, 2022

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Do you have a home file server? Maybe because you want to serve media files to your TV/Roku/etc., share info among family members, backup your devices, etc. If so, what do you use? LowEnders are usu...

Are You Recyling Old Hardware for Your DIY? The Environment Isn’t Thanking You

FREE Root Shells on Linux Servers Thanks to polkitd Vulnerability

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Jan 26, 2022

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A new vulnerability that affects many Linux systems has been revealed: Pwnkit. This attack uses a vulnerability in polkitd to allow any user to escalate his privileges to root. There are patches for...

FREE Root Shells on Linux Servers Thanks to polkitd Vulnerability

RHEL 9 Goes Beta

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Nov 06, 2021

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Now that (hopefully?) the CentOS Stream debacle and the subsequent rise of Alma and Rocky Linux is behind us, there's news from RedHat that RHEL 9 has gone beta. Is this the love child that will fina...

Why Do My Files Have Quotes in the Them When I Use ‘ls’?

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Oct 20, 2021

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If you've upgraded to a recent Linux version, you may have noticed a change in the output of your ls commands. Specifically, files that have spaces or other special characters in them are quoted. For...

Why Do My Files Have Quotes in the Them When I Use ‘ls’?

RackNerd Giveaway Video #2 Now on LowEndBoxTV: How to Get Free Udemy Courses!

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Oct 16, 2021

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Would you like some awesome technical education for free? Who wouldn't! Well-known education provider Udemy periodically offers many of their courses for free and LowEndTalk has a thread dedicated to...

LowEndSetup: Initializing and Reinitializing Your VPS

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Oct 14, 2021

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If you frequently setup new VPSes or re-initialize them, you may find yourself typing the same commands over and over. There are various technologies to alleviate these hassles and get your environmen...

LowEndSetup: Initializing and Reinitializing Your VPS

Locking Down Access to Your VPS

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Oct 12, 2021

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There are a number of ways you can restrict access to your VPS. Passwords (specifically, good passwords) is the most basic method. Restricting access to ssh keys only is better. You can use Google Aut...

How to Audit Every Command Run on Your Linux System

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Oct 07, 2021

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Periodically I've had auditors come to me and say "can you tell me what this user on this system did between such-and-such dates/times" and my answer is usually no. By default, Linux systems don't log...

How to Audit Every Command Run on Your Linux System

CloudLinux Announces Support for CentOS 8 Through 2025

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Sep 27, 2021

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When IBM announced that they were changing CentOS and introducing "CentOS Stream," one minor detail was a sharply curtailed lifespan for CentOS 8, the final "Classic" version. IBM has announced that...

Udemy Has Free Courses on Python, Linux, SQL, Machine Learning, and More!

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Sep 26, 2021

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Comments (4)

Training powerhouse Udemy frequently releases free courses for limited time periods. Obviously, their hope is that you'll try out their instruction, like what you see, and then purchase additional cou...

Udemy Has Free Courses on Python, Linux, SQL, Machine Learning, and More!

Painless MariaDB Replication with Galera Clusters

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Sep 22, 2021

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Galera is MariaDB's multi-master replication technology which makes it a snap to setup highly-available multi-node MariaDB clusters. In this tutorial we'll walk through setting up a cluster and also...

Hostigger is Now Hostiger and Has Ferociously Cheap VPS Offers for You! (Kansas City or Istanbul)

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Sep 12, 2021

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Hostigger is now Hostiger and they're bringing some awesome offers: Get a 2GB KVM with 40GB of disk and 2TB of traffic for only $4.99/month! Take 30% off if you buy annually! Larger sizes available to...

Hostigger is Now Hostiger and Has Ferociously Cheap VPS Offers for You! (Kansas City or Istanbul)

CloudServer Brings Us 2GBLinux KVMs for Only $1.99/Month (on Annual) or Windows KVMs for $3/Month!

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Sep 09, 2021

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