Sudo is a powerful utility built in almost all Linux distributions and we have a bad news for you – a recent privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-3156) has been discovered. The …
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Time and date on CentOS 7 Howto
NTP stands for Network Transport Protocol and it is used to keep the time on the servers synced with each other using a common reliable source to get the time. …
PostgreSQL on CentOS 7 – Howto
In this post I’ll try to show you how to install PostgreSQL 9.6 on CentOS 7.3 which is the current versions of PostgreSQL and CentOS. The default PostgreSQL version on CentOS …
Huawei E1552/E1800/E173 on CentOS 6
Today I had a chance to test Huawei E173 USB dongle and it works perfectly on my Mint Linux. All I had to do was to plug it in and …
CentOS – setup utility
For RH based distros, the “setup” utility is a must. With this tool you can easily maintain basic system settings (firewall settings, network, start-up services, etc). If you choose to …
MyDumper – CentOS HowTo
Mydumper – MySQL backup tool created by Domas Mituzas and later supported by several other devs. The main benefits are multi-threaded and fast backups with almost no locking (if not …
CentOS server – NFS client/server howto
NFS stands for Network File System and through NFS, a client can read and/or write a remote share on an NFS server (like on local hard disk) The first step …
Heart Bleed Bug – OpenSSL
A massive vulnerability has been found in OpenSSL, the open-source software package broadly used to encrypt Web communications. The flaw allows attackers to steal the information that is normally protected …
EoIP tunnel on Linux
Ethernet over IP (EoIP) Tunneling is a MikroTik RouterOS protocol (stateless and light ethernet point to point tunnel protocol with 28 bytes static overhead) that creates an Ethernet tunnel between two …
CentOS server – nginx howto
Nginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Nginx now hosts nearly 12.18% (22.2M) of active sites across all domains. …