Allow putty connections to a server
If you want to allow people to connect via putty to your server, you need to allow Secured Shell Server from Firewall settings.
Category Archives: Linux
How to list all the processes that run in a folder
In Linux, if you want to view all processes that run from a certain location you can run the following command: lsof /home This will list all the processes that run in /home directory
Make incremental backups with tar
Sometime, you modify a small file and you don’t need a full backup. It is recommended to make a full back-up every week and make everyday an incremental back-up. You can use tar to make incremental back-up. In the next example we will backup all files from /home/adrian that are modified in the last 2… Read More »
Bash current folder
Sometimes, if you run some bash scripts from cronjob or with the absolute path you will receive an error like this: Can’t open perl script “backup.cgi”. No such file or directory. To solve this, you must make sure you set bash to read from the directory where it is located: cd $(dirname $0) This will… Read More »
Simple backup in Linux
Sometimes, when you writing code you make a lot of mistakes and you want to go back to a previous version, but you don’t have one. It’s recommended that you always back-up your data. I tried a lot of back-up solutions, but they didn’t satisfy what I need. I need to make a backup to… Read More »
Read command line parameters with Perl and Bash
Today I was try to pass some paramters to my CGI script directly from command line. I have a bash file which execute some perl commands and I need it to be configurable. Bellow are two examples of how to read command line parameters, first is with Bash and second one is with Perl: 1.… Read More »
Delete de bottom panel in Linux Suse
Recently I did a mistake when I want to customize my SuSE KDE Desktop. I wanted to delete a button from my Start Bar and ended up deleting my entire panel. Now the desktop looks fine, exept the fact that I had no bottom panel. I try to use Desktop Settings, but with no luck.… Read More »
No network after I copy/clone a Virtual Machine
To have a backup of my virtual machine I just copied it to a DVD. I have a big surprise when I want to restore it. Everything works great, exept Networking. I had no ping, no internet, nothing. The problem was caused because VMWare tools asign a new Mac address. How to solve this problem:… Read More »