Unix

all about unix systems (Hpux/IRIX/Solaris/BSD

Block SSH Brute Force Attacks Using SSHGuard

SSHGuard is a fast and lightweight monitoring tool written in C language. It monitors and protects servers  from brute force attacks using their logging...

ClusterSSH: Manage Multiple SSH Sessions on Linux

ClusterSSH is a Cluster administration tool via SSH. It is used to control number of xterm windows via a single graphical console window to allow commands...

Setup the Raspberry Pi as a NAS

The Raspberry Pi is a great device with many possibilities and one such great use is as a NAS server for your LAN. The Raspberry...

Determine Your Specifications from Command-Line

We recently published article about how to determine your computer's architecture via GUI. Today am going to show how to do the same thing...

Setup Backup Server Using rsnapshot

rsnapshot is a filsystem snapshot utility written in Perl. It is a remote backup utility used to take single or multiple backup of filesystems...

Dictionaries in Python

A dictionary is a container that stores Python objects and each item  of the dictionary consist of a key and value. Python dictionaries are...

Lists in Python

What are lists in Python? Lists are one of the six built-in types of sequences in Python programming language. A sequence is the most...

Argument Handling in Python

Argument handling gives user the chance to interact with the script and use it for different tasks. Two ways to do this in Python...

Basic mplayer Usage from Command-Line

There are many ways to play media files from the command-line. In fact, in recent weeks past, here at Unixmen...

Exception Handling in Python

You know you get serious with Python programming language when you start to learn about exception handling. But why do we need exception handling? The...

How to Install and Configure Subversion Server on Ubuntu 13.04 Server

Subversion is a free and open-source version control system (VCS). It manages files and directories, and the changes made to them over time. This...

How to Convert Your Google Drive Files Using DriveConverter

DriveConverter is fast and powerful file online converter for Google Drive. It can convert your documents, images and audios that you saved in Google...

Use Terminal as a Web Browser

Web browsers are software used to access and view the internet and webpages. We all know about some of the popular web browsers such...

How to Install Telnet in CentOS / RHEL / Scientific Linux...

Telnet is a network protocol which is used to connect to remote computers over TCP/IP network. You can make a connection to a remote...

Useful Commands for Linux Users – Episode 5

The Command-line is more powerful because you can do lots with them. Yyou can tell your computer exactly what you want and get the...

Secure Your Network Using IPFire Firewall Distribution

One of the core component of network of all organizations is security. Many large companies will have hardware firewalls to protect their network. Those...

Setup Samba Domain Controller with LDAP Backend in Ubuntu 13.04

We have already shown you how to install and configure a basic Samba server in our previous article. Today I am going to show...

Secure File from Removal in Linux and Unix

Protecting files from unwanted deletion is very important security on the tasklist of Unix Administrators. On Linux boxes you can use the chattr command and...