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PHP Malware Scan on Linux Server 1

PHP Malware Scan on Linux Server

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Note: that there will be a lot false positives when scanning WordPress file structures.

 

Find world writable files on a Linux system 2

Find world writable files on a Linux system

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Discover world writable files (aka with permission 777) will help you sometimes find out which files you missed to secure from your user’s eyes.

If you don’t understand Linux file permission bits you should read this

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How to merge multiple PDF files in Linux

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This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series PDF Editing In Linux

Merge multiple PDF files in Linux is easy running one simple command by using PDF Toolkit. Installation on Ubuntu > 16.04:

Merge multiple pdf files: In this example we have n pdf files in the same directory, each file has the prefix sample-pdf-. The command below will merge n number of pdf files, using […]

merge pdf files in linux

How to replace a single page in a PDF file using another PDF file in Linux

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This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series PDF Editing In Linux

By using the PDF Toolkit PDFtk library you can do this simple pdf editing task and many more. For all of you creating software related to PDF documents you should really spend some time reading about PDFtk server. Installation:

Usage: In this example we have two pdf files with 10 pages each. The command […]

Thunderbird backup/transfer mail settings 3

Thunderbird backup/transfer mail settings

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If you want to recover just copy the folder into home folder. Mind permissions when you copy this folder.

How to setup SSH - Install SSH server and client 4

How to setup SSH – Install SSH server and client

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This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series SSH Best Practices

What is SSH? Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices. SSH was designed as a replacement for Telnet and other insecure remote shells, which send information, notably passwords, in plaintext, rendering them susceptible to packet analysis. The encryption used by […]

HowTo update to lastest Firefox via PPA on Ubuntu Linux

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2. update your packages

3. finally, an upgrade and you’re done!

Enjoy your new, stable, firefox! Best Regards, Specktator.[/crayon]

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HowTo – Set up Deluge torrent server (aka seedbox) headless with Ubuntu

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This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Deluge SeedBox Series

Deluge is a bit torrent protocol client, designed in client server model and has the ability to run in multiple and various interfaces. Client, web interface and console. So lets’s say you have an ubuntu server installed somewhere or an ubuntu desktop which you want to load, with all the damn work of downloading huge […]

Linux Server Monitoring - Schedule a Command Output to be Sent via Email on Boot 6

Linux Server Monitoring – Schedule a Command Output to be Sent via Email on Boot

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Scheduling a command on boot it’s easy and it can be done with different ways. One, with cronjobs and second, with the rc.local file (/etc/rc.local). Third, by putting your own script in /etc/init.d/. Fow now I’ll take the easy way to do it, the one with the rc.local. Requirements: sSMTP Mutt email client Implementation Open […]

Send email from Linux Terminal - How to install and use mutt terminal email client 7

Send email from Linux Terminal – How to install and use mutt terminal email client

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Mutt is a sophisticated email client for linux terminal. It supports MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. In this tutorial I wont expand to report full use of the software because the whole point is to show you how to setup a basic but promising email notification system for your servers, so you can customize it […]