From the monthly archives:

May 2009

How do I change user password using a shell script under FreeBSD operating systems?

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There is no rc.d script provided under OpenBSD for sshd service. How do I restart OpenSSH sshd server without rebooting OpenBSD 4.x server?

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Many commands accepts username and passwords on the command line and ps, top, sockstat and many commands can display this information to all users on the system. How do I prevent users from seeing information about processes that are being run under another UID to avoid information leakage under FreeBSD operating systems?

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I don’t want background process to eat all my CPU. I know how to find out CPU utilization but how do I limit the cpu usage of a process under Linux operating system? How do I force a process to limit itself to 25% only?

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How do I verify and diagnosis SSL certification installation from a Linux / UNIX shell prompt? How do I validate SSL Certificate installation and save hours of troubleshooting headaches without using a browser? How do I confirm I’ve the correct and working SSL certificates?

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I‘ve two servers located in two different data center. Both server deals with a lot of concurrent large file transfers. But network performance is very poor for large files and performance degradation take place with a large files. How do I tune TCP under Linux to solve this problem?

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AIDE is an open source host-based intrusion detection system which is a replacement for the well-known Tripwire integrity checker. It provide software integrity checking and it can detect that intrusions (monitor filesystem for unauthorized change such as find out if system binaries modified and a new cracked versions installed or not) have occurred on the system. How do I install and configure AIDE under Ubuntu LTS / Debian Linux 5.0 server?

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