Category: Scripting HowTo’s

The OpenSSL team have released an advisory to upgrade to version 1.1.0c. Read the notice here: “https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20161110.txt”. Redhat’s article can be found here: “https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-7054”. Severity: High TLS connections using *-CHACHA20-POLY1305 ciphersuites are susceptible to a DoS attack by corrupting larger payloads. This can result in an OpenSSL crash. This issue

This post will show you how create a self contained machine that will backup your DVD collection without any effort from you (apart from placing the disc in the drawer). This is just a quick and simple script that was designed to help convert a 500+ strong collection of DVDs

This article will show two ways to test your SMTP server from the command line in Linux, these tests are very useful when setting up a new server and you just want to make sure you have it working before you continue on. Lets get started In this first example

Need some test files sure you could use the below method: touch file{“1″,”2″,”3”} But why do that when you could just let bash do the work for you and use the following: touch file{1..100} I don’t want blank files to test with, they need to have some data in them..

“My linux server is running so slow and it appears I am using all of my RAM what is going on?”. To which we reply “It’s a feature not a bug”. Linux is actually being smart and when it encounters a large file transfer (such as backing up large data

Recently i wrote about the version information that WebServer’s make available to the web browser. It’s was pointed out to me (by David Fosdike, a security expert) that it would be useful to discuss masking those details for security reasons. The recent article is here. This article is about changing