Are you new here? Subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!By default, the syslog daemon will place –MARK– messages in your /var/log/messages log file every twenty minutes. This can get annoying and eventually lead to a waste of space. Heres a quick tip on how to stop syslog from putting –MARK– […]

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William Stearns has a good write up on Linux security tips for first time Linux users.
Here are a few:

Set up regular updates for your particular Linux distribution
Lock your system when you step away from it. To lock the Gnome graphical desktop, run the following command, part of the “gnome-screensaver” package:gnome-screensaver-command –lockFrom a text console, […]

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Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the Ubuntu splash screen during the boot process? You know, the screen that has the orange progress bar and the Ubuntu logo. You may want to see if anything is failing during the boot process, or you may just want to see exactly what takes […]

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Need to find out what all the file types in a certain directory are? Simple!
Execute the following on the command line:
find /path/here/ -type f -print | xargs file
I typed: find /home/adam/test/ -type f -print | xargs file
The output will look something like this:
/home/adam/test/music.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, […]

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Have you ever had to copy a fairly large file on the command line and wondered what the progress was? The command line progress bar seems to do a decent job at showing the percentage and estimated time of a copy.
Description from the site:
Bar is a simple tool to copy a stream of data […]

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If you’re worried about FTP users exploring outside of their home directory, you want to set up what is called a chroot jail.
To do this, open the /etc/vsftpd.conf file:
vim /etc/vsftpd.conf
and make the following modifications (line should be uncommented):
chroot_local_user=YES
After you save the file, restart vsftpd:
/etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
Now all users will be jailed to their own home directory […]

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ColorMake is a neat wrapper script written in Perl that generates a colorful make output when compiling an application on the Linux command line. Once installed, basically all you need to do is type “cmake” or “clmake” whenever you would ordinarily type “make”. This is useful for those of us who like to […]

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There is a great article written by Ashton Mills at APCMag titled “SUPERGUIDE: The Open Source Challenge. How to replace Windows completely with Ubuntu.“
Ashton essentially delves into the article with the assumption that Windows does everything we need, and explores the possibility of Linux and open source measuring up with a rating system.
When I […]

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If you’re tired of using GIMP to edit images, or you recently switched to Linux and still are stuck on using Adobe Photoshop, it’s still possible using Wine.
Check out this detailed guide on installing Photoshop CS2 on Linux with wine.

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The Linux Kernel version 2.6.23 was released yesterday, October 9th, 2007 that includes some great improvements.
2.6.23 includes the new, better, fairer CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest ‘Linux-on-Linux’ paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support, KVM smp guest support, variable process argument length, make SLUB the default slab allocator, SELinux protection for exploiting null […]

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