You need an Access Key and Secret Key if you wnat to link your OS platform to S3 . So in my Linux machine , I installed the s3cmd tools to add my s3 bucket to set up a backup policy . So to get these keys you need to create an IAM user...
Ylva previously known as Titan is a command line password manager in Linux . In this tutorial we will see how to install it on an Ubuntu 16.4 Ylva uses OpenSSL (or LibreSSL) for encryption. For password database SQLite is used. Ylva encrypts the database using AES with 256 keys. Encrypted database is authenticated...
It is very common these days replacing the traditional hard drive on your laptop with an SSD . There are lot of advantages of doing it in terms of speed ,performance etc .So here we are using an external hardisk enclosure and a Linux mint live USB stick to acheive it . The external...
This script is used to ping a number of host IP’s and send an email if the host IP is down : You can add any number of IP’s under the ‘HOSTS’ variable.This is using the mail utility tool to sent the email alerts . As this is system generated emails, most of the...
This small python script will compare the two files : file1 and file2 and write the difference to a file diff.txt
Sometimes you may need to replace the timestamps from a very large log file To make the change permanent to the file :
You can either use an internal Wireless card or an external wifi dongle for this . This tutorial is about using an external dongle . I am using an Alfa Wifi USB dongle which has ralink tehcnology and the drivers are all pre loaded and works like plug and play . There are different...
You can enable the logging in pflog You can verify your pflogd service running : But this log file is binary and you won’t be able to tail it with the ‘clog’ utility in FreeBSD . To clog this file you need to use the tcpdump: You can thhen filter this with your host...
Sometimes you may need to sort the order of your items in a dictionary which is not possible by default . In this case you need to convert your dict to a list of Tuples . First you need a module called operator which comes with Python3 or you can install it with ‘pip’...
Sometimes when you try to start the OpenVPN server, you might get this error : First you need to check the group ‘nogroup’ exists , This will display if the group exists : and if there is no group ‘nogroup’ ,add it This might solve your GID issues but might get another user UID...