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Checking hard disk health with smartctl

Posted on March 10, 2017 by admin

To check hard disk for error, run To list all smart data, run Here is a hard disk that is failing. This server had following messages in /var/log/messages

Format partition with mkfs

Posted on March 10, 2017 by admin

mkfs command is used to format disk partition in linux. To format a partition to ext4 format, run For example (be careful, you lose all data on /dev/sdb1).

Google Cloud

Posted on March 10, 2017 by admin

gsutil gcloud is command line tool that is used to provision and manage Google Cloud Platform services. You can download and install it from https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/ You can also access it by clicking “Cloud Shell” button on Google Cloud Console top

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Posted on March 10, 2017 by admin

To install software on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, you can use command zypper or yast. zypper is command line tool like yum or apt. yast have GUI based on ncurses, that work in terminal. cnf is another useful tool that

Kernel panic – not syncing: No working init found.

Posted on March 10, 2017 by admin

On a CentOS 7 server, i got error “Kernel panic – not syncing: No working init found.” on boot. This normally happen when you try boot wit wrong partition or system files are missing. I checked the server in rescue

Restart IIS from Command Line

Posted on March 9, 2017 by admin

To restart IIS from command line, run command prompt as administrator and run

ClamAV – Open Source Antivirus for Windows and Linux

Posted on March 9, 2017 by admin

ClamAV is a free Open Source antivirus engine for detecting malware and virus. You can use it on Linux and Windows. https://www.clamav.net/ To scan a file To scan all files in /home folder.

Find inside files

Posted on March 8, 2017 by admin

To find all php files in /home folder with content “Spy Shell” Some of the common function used in hacker scripts that you can search for. Find the particular string from the list of files in current directory: To find

Free Open Source Live Chat Software

Posted on March 8, 2017 by admin

LiveHelperChat is an Open source – Live Support chat for your website. Web and desktop clients. Co-Browsing, XMPP notifications, GTalk, Jabber, Openfire, Skype, Chrome extension, Node.js support, MySQL, PostgreSQL. https://livehelperchat.com/ You can find source code in GitHub https://github.com/LiveHelperChat/livehelperchat

OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP)

Posted on March 8, 2017 by admin

The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is one of the world’s most popular free security tools and is actively maintained by hundreds of international volunteers*. It can help you automatically find security vulnerabilities in your web applications while you are