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Download Fedora 16 CD / DVD ISO

Posted on in Categories fedora linux last updated November 9, 2011

Fedora Linux version 16 (code name “Verne”) has been released and available for download ( jump to download link ). Fedora Linux is a community-based Linux distribution which is sponsored by Red Hat, Inc. This release is dedicated to Dennis Ritchie, who co-invented Unix and the C language. Fedora is considered as the third most popular cutting edge distro, behind Ubuntu and Mint Linux for desktop and laptop usage.

Download Fedora 15 CD / DVD ISO

Posted on in Categories Download of the day, fedora linux last updated May 26, 2011

Fedora Linux version 15 has been released and available for download ( jump to download link ). Fedora Linux is a community-based Linux distribution which is sponsored by Red Hat, Inc. Fedora is considered as the second most popular cutting edge distro, behind Ubuntu Linux for desktop and laptop usage. The new version comes with several new features such as special focus on desktops, developers, virtualization, security and system administration.

HowTo: Create sar Graphs With kSar [ Identifying Linux Bottlenecks ]

Posted on in Categories Debian Linux, fedora linux, File system, Hardware, High performance computing, Howto, Linux, Linux Scalability, Monitoring, Networking last updated December 15, 2009

The sar command collect, report, or save UNIX / Linux system activity information. It will save selected counters in the operating system to the /var/log/sa/sadd file. From the collected data, you get lots of information about your server:

  1. CPU utilization
  2. Memory paging and its utilization
  3. Network I/O, and transfer statistics
  4. Process creation activity
  5. All block devices activity
  6. Interrupts/sec etc.

sar output can be used for identifying server bottlenecks. However, analyzing information provided by sar can be difficult, so use kSar, which can take sar output and plot a nice easy to understand graph over period of time.

BIND 9 Dynamic Update DoS Security Update

Posted on in Categories BIND Dns, CentOS, Debian Linux, fedora linux, FreeBSD, Howto, Linux, Networking, package management, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Security, Solaris, Suse Linux, Sys admin, UNIX, Windows server last updated July 29, 2009

BIND 9 is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. named daemon is an Internet Domain Name Server for UNIX like operating systems. Dynamic update messages may be used to update records in a master zone on a nameserver. When named receives a specially crafted dynamic update message an internal assertion check is triggered which causes named to exit. An attacker which can send DNS requests to a nameserver can cause it to exit, thus creating a Denial of Service situation. configuring named to ignore dynamic updates is NOT sufficient to protect it from this vulnerability. This exploit is public. Please upgrade immediately.

Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices

Posted on in Categories CentOS, Debian Linux, fedora linux, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, Howto, Linux, Networking, package management, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Security, Suse Linux, Sys admin, Tips, Ubuntu Linux, UNIX last updated July 24, 2009
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OpenSSH is the implementation of the SSH protocol. OpenSSH is recommended for remote login, making backups, remote file transfer via scp or sftp, and much more. SSH is perfect to keep confidentiality and integrity for data exchanged between two networks and systems. However, the main advantage is server authentication, through the use of public key cryptography. From time to time there are rumors about OpenSSH zero day exploit. Here are a few things you need to tweak in order to improve OpenSSH server security.

Vmware Linux Guest Add a New Hard Disk Without Rebooting Guest

Posted on in Categories CentOS, fedora linux, Hardware, Howto, Linux, Linux desktop, Linux distribution, Linux Virtualization, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Storage, Sys admin, Tips, vmware last updated July 18, 2009

As a system admin, I need to use additional hard drives for to provide more storage space or to separate system data from user data. This procedure, adding physical block devices to virtualized guests, describes how to add a hard drive on the host to a virtualized guest using VMWare software running Linux as guest.

It is possible to add or remove a SCSI device explicitly, or to re-scan an entire SCSI bus without rebooting a running Linux VM guest. This how to is tested under Vmware Server and Vmware Workstation v6.0 (but should work with older version too). All instructions are tested on RHEL, Fedora, CentOS and Ubuntu Linux guest / hosts operating systems.

Lighttpd Traffic Shaping: Throttle Connections Per Single IP (Rate Limit)

Posted on in Categories Apache, CentOS, fedora linux, FreeBSD, Howto, Iptables, lighttpd, Linux, Networking, PF Firewall, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Security, Ubuntu Linux, UNIX last updated June 21, 2009

If you do not control or throttle end users, your server may run out of resources. Spammers, abuser and badly written bots can eat up all your bandwidth. A webserver must keep an eye on connections and limit connections per second. This is serving 101. The default is no limit. Lighttpd can limit the throughput for each single connection (per IP) or for all connections. You also need to a use firewall to limit connections per second. In this article I will cover firewall and lighttpd web server settings to throttle end users. The firewall settings can be applied to other web servers such as Apache / Nginx and IIS server behind PF / netfilter based firewall.