Live streaming camera footage, such as watching pets or observing a bird’s nest, has become a popular hobby. Platforms like YouTube and Facebook allow anyone to view these streams from anywhere in the world, often driving significant traffic to your channel. In this guide, we’ll explore how to set up a live stream using...
I’ve been using a MacBook for quite some time and have been very satisfied with its performance. It has 8GB of RAM, but the storage is limited to just 128GB. As I started using more software, I decided it was time to upgrade the storage on my MacBook. The first step I took was...
If your hardware has multiple CPUs, you can set CPU affinity to run certain processes on specific cores. In FreeBSD, the cpuset command is used for this purpose. I have a test server on AWS with two CPU cores. First, let’s verify the hardware by running the following command: So you can see I...
RAM can be used as temporary storage in FreeBSD, offering much faster performance compared to traditional hard drives. However, since RAM is volatile memory, this storage won’t persist through a shutdown or a sudden power loss. In a production environment, you might need a temporary RAM disk to store temporary data without interrupting the...
1. File Backup Script: 2. System Monitoring Script: 3. Log Analyzer Script: 4. File Encryption/Decryption Script: 5. Automated Software Installation Script: 6. Network Connectivity Checker Script: 7. Website Uptime Checker Script: 8. Data Cleanup Script: 9. CPU Usage Tracker Script: 10. System Information Script: 11. Disk Space Monitoring Script: 12. Remote Server Backup Script:...
A SOCKS proxy allows you to route HTTP traffic through a remote server, VPS, router, etc., and access it locally via a browser. This is particularly useful for remotely administering firewalls or routing appliances via their private IP addresses, enabling you to avoid port forwarding and its associated security risks. This setup works through...
XAMPP is an essential tool for web developers, allowing them to manage servers like Apache and MySQL, as well as create and manage databases. On Windows, it’s easy to install, and the admin panels are directly accessible from its minimal UI. However, the process is a bit different on a Mac. To install, download...
First login to the AWS console , go to the ec2 instances , select the required instance , click on ‘Storage’ and click on the ‘Volume id’ . Now select actions and choose ‘modify volume’ , increase the volume and save. Here, I have added 30G which means I am modifying my volume from...
If you are managing FreeBSD or any Linux servers , you might have used the tcpdump a number of times . It’s a very handy tool for Network engineers or System administrators for troubleshooting . Sometimes you need to run it over day/night , capture the file and then analyze it in Wireshark ....
The system level log files usually keeps a lot of data about various applications and services . So at some times , we might need to grep only the IP communications from a large log file like ‘/var/log/messages’ or from syslog. The below command will grep only the data with IP addresses . The...
When dealing with files in Linux , sometimes you need to empty it without opening the actual file . Also , this is very useful is safely emptying a dynamically writing file, especially some of the log files . So we are looking on some of the commands to do this . Empty using...
We will first check some of the general Iptables commands . The below command will dispaly all the available chains ( TCP, INPUT, OUTPUT, etc.) configured. You can then filter this more with specific chains , the below command will display all the INPUT rules To display all the active rules , you can do...
I have cloned my FreeBSD 16GB SSD to a 28GB SSD . So everything works fine from the new SSD but I am unable to use the extra storage I had added . Another popular scenario of resizing the partition is adding extra storage to your virtual machines or SAN devices .In either case...
Once the USB disk is connected , you can run the geom command to list all the available disk. In my case ada0 is my internal ssd , da0 is a card reader and da1 is the external USB disk . If you want to see more details about the disks including its sub...