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     1	OS family 		Unix-like

     2	Source model 		Free and open source software

     3	Initial release 	1991

     4	Supported platforms 	Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Blackfin, C6x, ETRAX CRIS, FR-V, H8/300, 
     5				Hexagon, Itanium, M32R, m68k, Microblaze, MIPS, MN103, 
     6				OpenRISC, PA-RISC, PowerPC, s390, S+core, SuperH, 
     7				SPARC, TILE64, Unicore32, x86, Xtensa

     8	Kernel type 		Monolithic


     9	License 		"Linux" trademark owned by Linus Torvalds 
                                 and administered by the   Linux Mark Institute)

    10	HTTP 			https://www.kernel.org/pub/
    11	FTP 			ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/
    12	RSYNC 			rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/
    13	URL			http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.6.9.tar.bz2

Run Levels


Red Hat as well as most of its derivatives (such as CentOS) uses runlevels like this:

 
ID 	Description
-------------------
0 	Halt
1 	Single user
2 	Full multi-user with no networking
3 	Full multi-user, console logins only
4 	Not used/User definable
5 	Full multi-user, with display manager as well as console logins
6 	Reboot

Services


List of available services already configured

chkconfig --list

Make a service start for normal usage

chkconfig httpd on

If you have this init file listed in /etc/init.d/ you only need to run two commands to get it running at boot

chkconfig --config myscript
chkconfig myscript on

Use chkconfig to configure the programs that will be started at boot in a runlevel.


# chkconfig --list                   # List all init scripts
# chkconfig --list sshd              # Report the status of sshd
# chkconfig sshd --level 35 on       # Configure sshd for levels 3 and 5
# chkconfig sshd off                 # Disable sshd for all runlevels

Hostname Change RHEL, CentOS, Fedora


Open the /etc/sysconfig/network file with your favorite text editor.

Modify the HOSTNAME= value to match your FQDN host name.

sudo nano /etc/sysconfig/network

HOSTNAME=myserver.domain.com

Change the host that is associated to your main IPaddress for your server. this is for internal networking (found at /etc/hosts):

Restart Networking

/etc/init.d/network restart

General Package Installation Guidelines APT/Dpkg (Debian, Ubuntu)


    Install package:

    aptitude install PACKAGENAME

    Reinstall package:

    aptitude reinstall PACKAGENAME

    Remove package (keep config files):

    aptitude remove PACKAGENAME

    Remove package and purge config files:

    aptitude remove --purge PACKAGENAME

    Update package list:

    aptitude update

    Upgrade system (security/bug fixes):

    aptitude upgrade

    Upgrade system to newest release (dangerous!):

    aptitude dist-upgrade

    Show info on an installed package:

    aptitude show PACKAGENAME

    Search package repositories:

    aptitude search SEARCHSTRING

Yum/RPM (CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat)


    Install package:

    yum install PACKAGENAME

    Remove package:

    yum remove PACKAGENAME

    Update package:

    yum update PACKAGENAME

    List available updates:

    yum list updates

    Update system:

    yum update

    Upgrade system to newest release (dangerous!):

    yum upgrade

    Show package:

    yum list PACKAGENAME

    Search package repositories:

    yum search SEARCHSTRING

    List package groups:

    yum grouplist

    Install package group:

    yum groupinstall 'GROUP NAME'

    Update package group:

    yum groupupdate 'GROUP NAME'

    Remove package group:

    yum groupremove 'GROUP NAME'

Network Time Protocol Setup


Check whether the selected NTP server is accessible:

[root@fedora ~]# ntpdate -q 0.rhel.pool.ntp.org

server 204.9.136.253, stratum 2, offset -0.008663, delay 0.34778
server 169.229.70.201, stratum 2, offset -0.033543, delay 0.34413
server 184.22.183.130, stratum 2, offset -0.011112, delay 0.36876
server 108.61.73.244, stratum 2, offset -0.021635, delay 0.33836
9 Dec 16:25:18 ntpdate[22704]: adjust time server 108.61.73.244 offset -0.021635 sec

Run the ntpdate command followed by one or more server addresses:

[root@fedora ~]# ntpdate 0.rhel.pool.ntp.org 1.rhel.pool.ntp.org
9 Dec 16:26:41 ntpdate[22710]: adjust time server 108.61.73.244 offset -0.024647 sec

Checking satus via systemctl command

[root@fedora ~]# systemctl status ntpdate.service

ntpdate.service - Set time via NTP
	  Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpdate.service; disabled)
	  Active: inactive (dead)
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/ntpdate.service

Starting service using systemctl.

[root@fedora ~]# systemctl restart ntpdate.service

Check Status after start

[root@fedora ~]# systemctl status ntpdate.service
ntpdate.service - Set time via NTP
	  Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpdate.service; disabled)
	  Active: active (exited) since Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:34:41 +0530; 5s ago
	 Process: 22774 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/ntpdate-wrapper (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/ntpdate.service
Dec 09 16:34:41 fedora.example.com ntpdate[22780]: step time server 66.207.226.14 offset

Enable

[root@fedora ~]# systemctl enable ntpdate.service
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpdate.service' 
'/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ntpdate.service'

systemctl - Control the systemd system and service manager

systemctl [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND} ...


[root@fedora ~]# systemctl show-environment

SYSFONT=True
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
PWD=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
KEYTABLE=us
SHLVL=0
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.3.4-5.fc17.i686

[root@fedora ~]# man systemctl

[root@fedora ~]# man systemd

[root@fedora ~]# systemctl show

Version=systemd 44
Distribution=fedora
Features=+PAM +LIBWRAP +AUDIT +SELINUX +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP
RunningAs=system
InitRDTimestamp=Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:25:01 +0530
InitRDTimestampMonotonic=2229913
StartupTimestamp=Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:25:10 +0530
StartupTimestampMonotonic=10473483
FinishTimestamp=Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:25:43 +0530
FinishTimestampMonotonic=44368055
LogLevel=info
LogTarget=journal-or-kmsg
NNames=260
NJobs=0
NInstalledJobs=123
NFailedJobs=0
Progress=1
Environment=SYSFONT=True PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin 
PWD=/ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us SHLVL=0 BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-
ConfirmSpawn=no
ShowStatus=no
UnitPath=/etc/systemd/system /usr/lib/systemd/system
NotifySocket=/run/systemd/notify
ControlGroupHierarchy=/system
MountAuto=yes
SwapAuto=yes
DefaultControllers=cpu
DefaultStandardOutput=journal
DefaultStandardError=inherit
SysVConsole=no
SysVInitPath=/etc/rc.d/init.d
SysVRcndPath=/etc/rc.d

Unit Commands:

  list-units                      List loaded units
  start [NAME...]                 Start (activate) one or more units
  stop [NAME...]                  Stop (deactivate) one or more units
  reload [NAME...]                Reload one or more units
  restart [NAME...]               Start or restart one or more units
  try-restart [NAME...]           Restart one or more units if active
  reload-or-restart [NAME...]     Reload one or more units is possible,
                                  otherwise start or restart
  reload-or-try-restart [NAME...] Reload one or more units is possible,
                                  otherwise restart if active
  isolate [NAME]                  Start one unit and stop all others
  kill [NAME...]                  Send signal to processes of a unit
  is-active [NAME...]             Check whether units are active
  status [NAME...|PID...]         Show runtime status of one or more units
  show [NAME...|JOB...]           Show properties of one or more
                                  units/jobs or the manager
  reset-failed [NAME...]          Reset failed state for all, one, or more
                                  units
  load [NAME...]                  Load one or more units

Unit File Commands:

  list-unit-files                 List installed unit files
  enable [NAME...]                Enable one or more unit files
  disable [NAME...]               Disable one or more unit files
  reenable [NAME...]              Reenable one or more unit files
  preset [NAME...]                Enable/disable one or more unit files
                                  based on preset configuration
  mask [NAME...]                  Mask one or more units
  unmask [NAME...]                Unmask one or more units
  link [PATH...]                  Link one or more units files into
                                  the search path
  is-enabled [NAME...]            Check whether unit files are enabled

Job Commands:

  list-jobs                       List jobs
  cancel [JOB...]                 Cancel all, one, or more jobs

Status Commands:

  dump                            Dump server status
  dot                             Dump dependency graph for dot(1)

Snapshot Commands:

  snapshot [NAME]                 Create a snapshot
  delete [NAME...]                Remove one or more snapshots

Environment Commands:

  show-environment                Dump environment
  set-environment [NAME=VALUE...] Set one or more environment variables
  unset-environment [NAME...]     Unset one or more environment variables

Manager Lifecycle Commands:

  daemon-reload                   Reload systemd manager configuration
  daemon-reexec                   Reexecute systemd manager

System Commands:

  default                         Enter system default mode
  rescue                          Enter system rescue mode
  emergency                       Enter system emergency mode
  halt                            Shut down and halt the system
  poweroff                        Shut down and power-off the system
  reboot                          Shut down and reboot the system
  kexec                           Shut down and reboot the system with kexec
  exit                            Ask for user instance termination

Running kernel and system information.


root@fedora ~> uname -a

Linux fedora.example.com 3.3.4-5.fc17.i686 #1 
SMP Mon May 7 17:45:26 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

root@fedora ~> lsb_release -a

LSB Version:	:core-4.1-ia32:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-4.1-ia32:cxx-4.1-
noarch:desktop-4.1-ia32:desktop-4.1-noarch:languages-4.1-ia32:
languages-4.1-noarch:printing-4.1-ia32:printing-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID:	Fedora
Description:	Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
Release:	17
Codename:	BeefyMiracle

root@fedora ~> uptime

 16:30:53 up 1 day,  3:05,  4 users,  load average: 0.39, 0.37, 0.32

root@fedora ~> hostname

fedora.example.com

root@fedora ~> hostname -i

127.0.0.1

root@fedora ~> hostname -d

example.com

root@fedora ~> last reboot |head

reboot   system boot  3.3.4-5.fc17.i68 Fri Dec  7 13:25 - 16:32 (1+03:07)   
reboot   system boot  3.3.4-5.fc17.i68 Wed Dec  5 14:57 - 16:32 (3+01:35)   
reboot   system boot  3.3.4-5.fc17.i68 Sat Dec  1 20:52 - 01:33  (04:41)

root@fedora ~> dmesg |tail

[87261.920498] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled sense code
[87261.920507] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]  Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE

root@fedora ~> cat /proc/meminfo

root@fedora ~> cat /proc/cmdline

BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.3.4-5.fc17.i686 root=/dev/mapper/vg-lv_root ro rd.md=0 
rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us SYSFONT=True rd.lvm.lv=vg/lv_root rd.luks=0 
rd.lvm.lv=vg/lv_swap LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rhgb quiet

USB Devices - lsusb - list USB devices:

root@fedora ~> lsusb -tv 
/:  Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 7, If 0, Class=vend., Driver=option, 12M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 7, If 1, Class=vend., Driver=option, 12M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 7, If 2, Class=vend., Driver=option, 12M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 7, If 3, Class=vend., Driver=option, 12M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 7, If 4, Class=vend., Driver=option, 12M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 7, If 5, Class=stor., Driver=usb-storage, 12M

dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS)

root@fedora ~> dmidecode |grep -i Vendor
	Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
root@fedora ~> 

Network Management


Temporary IP Address Assignment

To temporarily configure an IP address, you can use the ifconfig command in the following manner.

Just modify the IP address and subnet mask to match your network requirements.

sudo ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0

[root@fedora ~]# ifconfig -a em1

em1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.56.104  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.56.255
        ether 00:08:74:22:5c:61  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device interrupt 11  base 0x2c00  

To configure a default gateway, you can use the route command in the following manner.

Modify the default gateway address to match your network requirements.

sudo route add default gw 10.0.0.1 eth0

If you no longer need this configuration and wish to purge all IP configuration from an interface, you can use the ip command with the flush option as shown below.

ip addr flush eth0

Static IP Configuration on RHEL, Fedora, CentOS Linux


1. Edit /etc/sysconfig/network, add network gateway and hostname

2. Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

3. Example interface which is autoconfigured using Graphic Tools

fedora@fedora ~> cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-Auto_Ethernet 
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=none
DEFROUTE=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no
NAME="Auto Ethernet"
UUID=d36649d6-b53a-4cf6-9c1f-20b7e7f72a2e
ONBOOT=yes
IPADDR0=192.168.56.104
PREFIX0=24
DNS1=8.8.8.8
HWADDR=00:08:74:22:5C:61
IPV6_PEERDNS=yes
IPV6_PEERROUTES=yes
IPV6_PRIVACY=rfc3041
fedora@fedora ~> 

4. Manually adding IP address

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
HWADDR=00:08:74:22:5C:61
IPADDR=192.168.56.104
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes

5. Edit /etc/resolv.conf and setup DNS servers

fedora@fedora ~> cat /etc/resolv.conf
#Google DNS
nameserver 8.8.8.8 
nameserver 8.8.4.4
#OpenDNS
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
#Reliance DNS
nameserver 220.226.6.104
nameserver 220.226.100.40
#

6. Restart network - /etc/init.d/network restart

7. For ubuntu - Edit /etc/network/interfaces

Static IP Address Assignment in Ubuntu


Open - /etc/network/interfaces

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.0.0.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.0.0.1

DNS Client Configuration


To configure your system to use DNS for name resolution, add the IP addresses of the DNS servers that are appropriate for your network in the file /etc/resolv.conf. You can also add an optional DNS suffix search-lists to match your network domain names.

Below is an example of a typical configuration of /etc/resolv.conf for a server on the domain "example.com" and using two public DNS servers.

search example.com
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Name Service Switch Configuration


The order in which your system selects a method of resolving hostnames to IP addresses is controlled by the Name Service Switch (NSS) configuration file /etc/nsswitch.conf.

As mentioned in the previous section, typically static hostnames defined in the systems /etc/hosts file have precedence over names resolved from DNS. The following is an example of the line responsible for this order of hostname lookups in the file /etc/nsswitch.conf.

hosts:  files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

Bridging


Before configuring a bridge you will need to install the bridge-utils package.

To install the package, in a terminal enter:

sudo apt-get install bridge-utils

Next, configure the bridge by editing /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto br0
iface br0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.10
        network 192.168.0.0
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        broadcast 192.168.0.255
        gateway 192.168.0.1
        bridge_ports eth0
        bridge_fd 9
        bridge_hello 2
        bridge_maxage 12
        bridge_stp off

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Bonding on CentOS


In the modprobe.conf file add the following:

alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 miimon=80 mode=5

Be sure to add this before any of the network aliases

modes:
mode=0 (Balance Round Robin)
mode=1 (Active backup)
mode=2 (Balance XOR)
mode=3 (Broadcast)
mode=4 (802.3ad)
mode=5 (Balance TLB)
mode=6 (Balance ALB)

In the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory create ifcfg-bond0

DEVICE=bond0
IPADDR=<ip address>
NETMASK=
NETWORK=
BROADCAST=
GATEWAY=
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
USERCTL=no

Change the ifcfg-eth0 to:

DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
USERCTL=no
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes

Check the status of the bond.

cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0

You can use multiple bond interface but for that you must load the bonding module as many as you need.

Presuming that you want two bond interface you must configure the /etc/modules.conf as follow:

alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 -o bond0 mode=0 miimon=100
alias bond1 bonding
options bond1 -o bond1 mode=1 miimon=100

Network Settings


ethtool - query or control network driver and hardware settings

root@fedora /opt> ethtool em1
Settings for em1:
	Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
	Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
	                        100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
	Supported pause frame use: No
	Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
	Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
	                        100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
	Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
	Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
	Speed: 10Mb/s
	Duplex: Half
	Port: MII
	PHYAD: 24
	Transceiver: internal
	Auto-negotiation: on
	Supports Wake-on: g
	Wake-on: d
	Current message level: 0x00000001 (1)
			       drv
	Link detected: no
root@fedora /opt> 

ip - show / manipulate routing, devices, policy routing and tunnels

root@fedora /opt> ip link show

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: em1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state 
DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:08:74:22:5c:61 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
8: ppp0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc 
pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 3 link/ppp 
root@fedora /opt>

netstat Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics,

masquerade connections, and multicast memberships

root@fedora ~> netstat -an | grep LISTEN

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:111             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:52769           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN     
tcp6       0      0 :::45423                :::*                    LISTEN     
tcp6       0      0 :::111                  :::*                    LISTEN     
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN 

Help on netstat

netstat -h
usage: netstat [-vWeenNcCF] [<Af>] -r         netstat {-V|--version|-h|--help}
       netstat [-vWnNcaeol] [<Socket> ...]
       netstat { [-vWeenNac] -I[<Iface>] | [-veenNac] -i | [-cnNe] -M | -s [-6tuw] } [delay]

        -r, --route              display routing table
        -I, --interfaces=<Iface> display interface table for <Iface>
        -i, --interfaces         display interface table
        -g, --groups             display multicast group memberships
        -s, --statistics         display networking statistics (like SNMP)
        -M, --masquerade         display masqueraded connections

        -v, --verbose            be verbose
        -W, --wide               don't truncate IP addresses
        -n, --numeric            don't resolve names
        --numeric-hosts          don't resolve host names
        --numeric-ports          don't resolve port names
        --numeric-users          don't resolve user names
        -N, --symbolic           resolve hardware names
        -e, --extend             display other/more information
        -p, --programs           display PID/Program name for sockets
        -c, --continuous         continuous listing

        -l, --listening          display listening server sockets
        -a, --all, --listening   display all sockets (default: connected)
        -o, --timers             display timers
        -F, --fib                display Forwarding Information Base (default)
        -C, --cache              display routing cache instead of FIB
        -Z, --context            display SELinux security context for sockets

netstat -rn

root@fedora ~> netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U         0 0          0 ppp0
169.204.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 em1
192.168.56.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 em1
192.168.141.145 0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0 ppp0
root@fedora ~> 

root@fedora ~> netstat -tupl

Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name    
tcp        0      0 *:sunrpc                *:*                     LISTEN      2584/rpcbind        
tcp        0      0 *:ssh                   *:*                     LISTEN      5046/sshd           
tcp        0      0 *:52769                 *:*                     LISTEN      2594/rpc.statd      
tcp6       0      0 [::]:45423              [::]:*                  LISTEN      2594/rpc.statd      
tcp6       0      0 [::]:sunrpc             [::]:*                  LISTEN      2584/rpcbind        
tcp6       0      0 [::]:ssh                [::]:*                  LISTEN      5046/sshd           
udp        0      0 *:sunrpc                *:*                                 2584/rpcbind        
udp        0      0 *:ntp                   *:*                                 1858/chronyd        
udp        0      0 *:msdp                  *:*                                 2584/rpcbind        
udp        0      0 fedora.example.com:obex *:*                                 2594/rpc.statd      
udp        0      0 *:44725                 *:*                                 2594/rpc.statd      
udp        0      0 *:57569                 *:*                                 1802/avahi-daemon:  
udp        0      0 *:mdns                  *:*                                 1802/avahi-daemon:  
udp        0      0 *:323                   *:*                                 1858/chronyd        
udp6       0      0 [::]:sunrpc             [::]:*                              2584/rpcbind        
udp6       0      0 [::]:ntp                [::]:*                              1858/chronyd        
udp6       0      0 [::]:msdp               [::]:*                              2584/rpcbind        
udp6       0      0 [::]:323                [::]:*                              1858/chronyd        
udp6       0      0 [::]:50517              [::]:*                              2594/rpc.statd      
root@fedora ~>

route - show / manipulate the IP routing table

root@fedora ~> route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 ppp0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1002   0        0 em1
192.168.51.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 em1
120.124.141.145 0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
root@fedora ~> 

EXAMPLES

route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo

Adds the normal loopback entry, using netmask 255.0.0.0 and associated with the "lo" device

(assuming this device was previously set up correctly with ifconfig(8)).

route add -net 192.56.76.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0

adds a route to the local network 192.56.76.x via "eth0". The word "dev" can be omitted here.

route del default

deletes the current default route, which is labeled "default" or

0.0.0.0 in the destination field of the current routing table.

route add default gw mango-gw

Adds a default route (which will be used if no other route matches).

All packets using this route will be gatewayed through "mango-gw".

The device which will actually be used for that route depends on

how we can reach "mango-gw" - the static route to "mango-gw" will have to be set up before.

route add ipx4 sl0

Adds the route to the "ipx4" host via the SLIP interface

(assuming that "ipx4" is the SLIP host).

route add -net 192.57.66.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw ipx4

This command adds the net "192.57.66.x" to be gatewayed through the former route to the SLIP interface.

route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev eth0

This is an obscure one documented so people know how to do it.

This sets all of the class D (multicast) IP routes to go via "eth0".

This is the correct normal configuration line with a multicasting kernel.

route add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 reject

This installs a rejecting route for the private network "10.x.x.x."

# route add -net 192.168.50.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.56.1
# ip route add 192.168.56.0/24 via 192.168.56.1       # same as above with ip route
# route add -net 192.168.56.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0
# route add default gw 192.168.56.1

Search & Install using yum


root@fedora ~> yum search dmidecode

dmidecode.i686 : Tool to analyse BIOS DMI data
python-dmidecode.i686 : Python module to access DMI data

root@fedora ~> yum -y install dmidecode

Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package dmidecode.i686 1:2.11-8.fc17 will be installed
Installed: dmidecode.i686 Complete!

Usage: yum [options] COMMAND

List of Commands:

check          Check for problems in the rpmdb
check-update   Check for available package updates
clean          Remove cached data
deplist        List a package's dependencies
distribution-synchronization Synchronize installed packages to the latest available versions
downgrade      downgrade a package
erase          Remove a package or packages from your system
groups         Display, or use, the groups information
help           Display a helpful usage message
history        Display, or use, the transaction history
info           Display details about a package or group of packages
install        Install a package or packages on your system
list           List a package or groups of packages
load-transaction load a saved transaction from filename
makecache      Generate the metadata cache
provides       Find what package provides the given value
reinstall      reinstall a package
repolist       Display the configured software repositories
search         Search package details for the given string
shell          Run an interactive yum shell
update         Update a package or packages on your system
upgrade        Update packages taking obsoletes into account
version        Display a version for the machine and/or available repos.

Firewall iptables v1.4.12.2


Lists your current rules in iptables.

iptables -L

Allowing Established Sessions

iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

Allowing Incoming Traffic on Specific Ports

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport ssh -j ACCEPT

Allow all incoming web traffic.

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

Blocking Traffic.

iptables -A INPUT -j DROP

Insert it as the first rule

iptables -I INPUT 1 -i lo -j ACCEPT

Logging

iptables -I INPUT 5 -m limit --limit 5/min -j LOG --log-prefix "iptables denied: " --log-level 7

Saving iptables

To save the configuration, you can use iptables-save and iptables-restore.

iptables-save > /etc/iptables.rules

iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.rules

Disabling the firewall

iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t nat -X
iptables -t mangle -F
iptables -t mangle -X
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT

Examples:

allow 2 telnet connections per client host

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn --dport 23 -m connlimit --connlimit-above 2 -j REJECT

you can also match the other way around:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn --dport 23 -m connlimit --connlimit-upto 2 -j ACCEPT

limit the number of parallel HTTP requests to 16 per class C sized source network

(24 bit netmask)

iptables -p tcp --syn --dport 80 -m connlimit --connlimit-above 16 --connlimit-mask 24 -j REJECT

limit the number of parallel HTTP requests to 16 for the link local network

(ipv6) ip6tables -p tcp --syn --dport 80 -s fe80::/64 -m connlimit --connlimit-above 16 --connlimit-mask 64 -j REJECT

Limit the number of connections to a particular host:

ip6tables -p tcp --syn --dport 49152:65535 -d 2001:db8::1 -m connlimit --connlimit-above 100 -j REJECT

Usage: iptables -[ACD] chain rule-specification [options]
       iptables -I chain [rulenum] rule-specification [options]
       iptables -R chain rulenum rule-specification [options]
       iptables -D chain rulenum [options]
       iptables -[LS] [chain [rulenum]] [options]
       iptables -[FZ] [chain] [options]
       iptables -[NX] chain
       iptables -E old-chain-name new-chain-name
       iptables -P chain target [options]
       iptables -h (print this help information)

Commands:

Either long or short options are allowed.
  --append  -A chain		Append to chain
  --check   -C chain		Check for the existence of a rule
  --delete  -D chain		Delete matching rule from chain
  --delete  -D chain rulenum    Delete rule rulenum (1 = first) from chain
  --insert  -I chain [rulenum]  Insert in chain as rulenum (default 1=first)
  --replace -R chain rulenum    Replace rule rulenum (1 = first) in chain
  --list    -L [chain [rulenum]] List the rules in a chain or all chains
  --list-rules -S [chain [rulenum]] Print the rules in a chain or all chains
  --flush   -F [chain]		 Delete all rules in  chain or all chains
  --zero    -Z [chain [rulenum]] Zero counters in chain or all chains
  --new     -N chain		Create a new user-defined chain
  --delete-chain -X [chain]	Delete a user-defined chain
  --policy  -P chain target    Change policy on chain to target
  --rename-chain -E old-chain new-chain Change chain name, (moving any references)

Options:
    --ipv4	-4		Nothing (line is ignored by ip6tables-restore)
    --ipv6	-6		Error (line is ignored by iptables-restore)
[!] --proto	-p proto	protocol: by number or name, eg. `tcp'
[!] --source	-s address[/mask][...] source specification
[!] --destination -d address[/mask][...] destination specification
[!] --in-interface -i input name[+] network interface name ([+] for wildcard)
 --jump	-j target 	       target for rule (may load target extension)
  --goto      -g chain         jump to chain with no return
  --match	-m match       extended match (may load extension)
  --numeric	-n		numeric output of addresses and ports
[!] --out-interface -o output name[+] network interface name ([+] for wildcard)
  --table	-t table	table to manipulate (default: `filter')
  --verbose	-v		verbose mode
  --line-numbers		print line numbers when listing
  --exact	-x		expand numbers (display exact values)
[!] --fragment	-f	match second or further fragments only
  --modprobe=<command>	try to insert modules using this command
  --set-counters PKTS BYTES	set the counter during insert/append
[!] --version	-V		print package version.

Analysis of Netowrk using tcpdump version 4.2.1 libpcap version 1.2.1


Usage: tcpdump [-aAbdDefhHIJKlLnNOpqRStuUvxX] [ -B size ] [ -c count ]
		[ -C file_size ] [ -E algo:secret ] [ -F file ] [ -G seconds ]
		[ -i interface ] [ -j tstamptype ] [ -M secret ]
		[ -r file ] [ -s snaplen ] [ -T type ] [ -w file ]
		[ -W filecount ] [ -y datalinktype ] [ -z command ]
		[ -Z user ] [ expression ]

root@fedora ~> tcpdump -vv

tcpdump: listening on ppp0, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked), capture size 65535 bytes

19:20:30.346592 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 17265, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 60)

root@fedora ~> tcpdump -D

1.ppp0
2.nflog (Linux netfilter log (NFLOG) interface)
3.em1
4.usbmon1 (USB bus number 1)
5.any (Pseudo-device that captures on all interfaces)
6.lo
root@fedora ~>

root@fedora ~> tcpdump -vv -i lo port 22

tcpdump: listening on lo, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
19:26:25.420823 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 6860, offset 0, flags [DF], proto TCP (6), length 100)

EXAMPLES

To print all packets arriving at or departing from sundown:

              tcpdump host sundown

To print traffic between helios and either hot or ace:

              tcpdump host helios and \( hot or ace \)

To print all IP packets between ace and any host except helios:

              tcpdump ip host ace and not helios

To print all traffic between local hosts and hosts at Berkeley:

              tcpdump net ucb-ether

To print all ftp traffic through internet gateway snup:

(note that the expression is quoted to prevent the shell from (mis-)inter‐preting the parentheses):

              tcpdump 'gateway snup and (port ftp or ftp-data)'

To print traffic neither sourced from nor destined for local hosts

(if you gateway to one other net, this stuff should never make itonto your local net).

              tcpdump ip and not net localnet

To print the start and end packets (the SYN and FIN packets) of each TCP

conversation that involves a non-local host.

              tcpdump 'tcp[tcpflags] & (tcp-syn|tcp-fin) != 0 and not src and dst net localnet'

To print all IPv4 HTTP packets to and from port 80, i.e. print only packets that contain data, not,

for example, SYN and FIN packets and ACK-only packets. (IPv6 is left as an exercise for the reader.)

              tcpdump 'tcp port 80 and (((ip[2:2] - ((ip[0]&0xf)<<2)) - ((tcp[12]&0xf0)>>2)) != 0)'

To print IP packets longer than 576 bytes sent through gateway snup:

              tcpdump 'gateway snup and ip[2:2] > 576'

To print IP broadcast or multicast packets that were not sent via Ethernet broadcast or multicast:

              tcpdump 'ether[0] & 1 = 0 and ip[16] >= 224'

To print all ICMP packets that are not echo requests/replies (i.e., not ping packets):

              tcpdump 'icmp[icmptype] != icmp-echo and icmp[icmptype] != icmp-echoreply'

Nmap 6.01 ( http://nmap.org )


Usage: nmap [Scan Type(s)] [Options] {target specification}

EXAMPLES:

  nmap -v -A scanme.nmap.org
  nmap -v -sn 192.168.0.0/16 10.0.0.0/8
  nmap -v -iR 10000 -Pn -p 80

TARGET SPECIFICATION:

 
   Can pass hostnames, IP addresses, networks, etc.
   Ex: scanme.nmap.org, microsoft.com/24, 192.168.0.1; 10.0.0-255.1-254
  -iL <inputfilename>: Input from list of hosts/networks
  -iR <num hosts>: Choose random targets
  --exclude <host1[,host2][,host3],...>: Exclude hosts/networks
  --excludefile <exclude_file>: Exclude list from file

HOST DISCOVERY:

  -sL: List Scan - simply list targets to scan
  -sn: Ping Scan - disable port scan
  -Pn: Treat all hosts as online -- skip host discovery
  -PS/PA/PU/PY[portlist]: TCP SYN/ACK, UDP or SCTP discovery to given ports
  -PE/PP/PM: ICMP echo, timestamp, and netmask request discovery probes
  -PO[protocol list]: IP Protocol Ping
  -n/-R: Never do DNS resolution/Always resolve [default: sometimes]
  --dns-servers <serv1[,serv2],...>: Specify custom DNS servers
  --system-dns: Use OS's DNS resolver
  --traceroute: Trace hop path to each host

SCAN TECHNIQUES:

  -sS/sT/sA/sW/sM: TCP SYN/Connect()/ACK/Window/Maimon scans
  -sU: UDP Scan
  -sN/sF/sX: TCP Null, FIN, and Xmas scans
  --scanflags <flags>: Customize TCP scan flags
  -sI <zombie host[:probeport]>: Idle scan
  -sY/sZ: SCTP INIT/COOKIE-ECHO scans
  -sO: IP protocol scan
  -b <FTP relay host>: FTP bounce scan

PORT SPECIFICATION AND SCAN ORDER:

  -p <port ranges>: Only scan specified ports
  Ex: -p22; -p1-65535; -p U:53,111,137,T:21-25,80,139,8080,S:9
  -F: Fast mode - Scan fewer ports than the default scan
  -r: Scan ports consecutively - don't randomize
  --top-ports <number>: Scan <number> most common ports
  --port-ratio <ratio>: Scan ports more common than <ratio>

SERVICE/VERSION DETECTION:

  -sV: Probe open ports to determine service/version info
  --version-intensity <level>: Set from 0 (light) to 9 (try all probes)
  --version-light: Limit to most likely probes (intensity 2)
  --version-all: Try every single probe (intensity 9)
  --version-trace: Show detailed version scan activity (for debugging)

SCRIPT SCAN:

  -sC: equivalent to --script=default
  --script=<Lua scripts>: <Lua scripts> is a comma separated list of 
           directories, script-files or script-categories
  --script-args=<n1=v1,[n2=v2,...]>: provide arguments to scripts
  --script-args-file=filename: provide NSE script args in a file
  --script-trace: Show all data sent and received
  --script-updatedb: Update the script database.
  --script-help=<Lua scripts>: Show help about scripts.
           <Lua scripts> is a comma separted list of script-files or
           script-categories.

OS DETECTION:

  -O: Enable OS detection
  --osscan-limit: Limit OS detection to promising targets
  --osscan-guess: Guess OS more aggressively

TIMING AND PERFORMANCE:

  Options which take <time> are in seconds, or append 'ms' (milliseconds),
  's' (seconds), 'm' (minutes), or 'h' (hours) to the value (e.g. 30m).
  -T<0-5>: Set timing template (higher is faster)
  --min-hostgroup/max-hostgroup <size>: Parallel host scan group sizes
  --min-parallelism/max-parallelism <numprobes>: Probe parallelization
  --min-rtt-timeout/max-rtt-timeout/initial-rtt-timeout <time>: Specifies
      probe round trip time.
  --max-retries <tries>: Caps number of port scan probe retransmissions.
  --host-timeout <time>: Give up on target after this long
  --scan-delay/--max-scan-delay <time>: Adjust delay between probes
  --min-rate <number>: Send packets no slower than <number> per second
  --max-rate <number>: Send packets no faster than <number> per second

FIREWALL/IDS EVASION AND SPOOFING:

  
  -f; --mtu <val>: fragment packets (optionally w/given MTU)
  -D <decoy1,decoy2[,ME],...>: Cloak a scan with decoys
  -S <IP_Address>: Spoof source address
  -e <iface>: Use specified interface
  -g/--source-port <portnum>: Use given port number
  --data-length <num>: Append random data to sent packets
  --ip-options <options>: Send packets with specified ip options
  --ttl <val>: Set IP time-to-live field
  --spoof-mac <mac address/prefix/vendor name>: Spoof your MAC address
  --badsum: Send packets with a bogus TCP/UDP/SCTP checksum

OUTPUT:

  
  -oN/-oX/-oS/-oG <file>: Output scan in normal, XML, s|<rIpt kIddi3,
     and Grepable format, respectively, to the given filename.
  -oA <basename>: Output in the three major formats at once
  -v: Increase verbosity level (use -vv or more for greater effect)
  -d: Increase debugging level (use -dd or more for greater effect)
  --reason: Display the reason a port is in a particular state
  --open: Only show open (or possibly open) ports
  --packet-trace: Show all packets sent and received
  --iflist: Print host interfaces and routes (for debugging)
  --log-errors: Log errors/warnings to the normal-format output file
  --append-output: Append to rather than clobber specified output files
  --resume <filename>: Resume an aborted scan
  --stylesheet <path/URL>: XSL stylesheet to transform XML output to HTML
  --webxml: Reference stylesheet from Nmap.Org for more portable XML
  --no-stylesheet: Prevent associating of XSL stylesheet w/XML output

MISC:

  
  -6: Enable IPv6 scanning
  -A: Enable OS detection, version detection, script scanning, and traceroute
  --datadir <dirname>: Specify custom Nmap data file location
  --send-eth/--send-ip: Send using raw ethernet frames or IP packets
  --privileged: Assume that the user is fully privileged
  --unprivileged: Assume the user lacks raw socket privileges
  -V: Print version number
  -h: Print this help summary page.

SEE THE MAN PAGE (http://nmap.org/book/man.html) FOR MORE OPTIONS AND EXAMPLES

Fixing file system using fsck from util-linux 2.21.1


Usage: fsck.ext4 [-panyrcdfvtDFV] [-b superblock] [-B blocksize]
		[-I inode_buffer_blocks] [-P process_inode_size]
		[-l|-L bad_blocks_file] [-C fd] [-j external_journal]
		[-E extended-options] device

Emergency help:

 -p                   Automatic repair (no questions)
 -n                   Make no changes to the filesystem
 -y                   Assume "yes" to all questions
 -c                   Check for bad blocks and add them to the badblock list
 -f                   Force checking even if filesystem is marked clean
 -v                   Be verbose
 -b superblock        Use alternative superblock
 -B blocksize         Force blocksize when looking for superblock
 -j external_journal  Set location of the external journal
 -l bad_blocks_file   Add to badblocks list
 -L bad_blocks_file   Set badblocks list

 -N     Don't execute, just show what would be done.

root@fedora ~> fsck -N

fsck from util-linux 2.21.1
[/sbin/fsck.ext4 (1) -- /] fsck.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv_root 
[/sbin/fsck.ext4 (1) -- /boot] fsck.ext4 /dev/sda1 

The exit code returned by fsck is the sum of the following conditions:

              0      No errors
              1      Filesystem errors corrected
              2      System should be rebooted
              4      Filesystem errors left uncorrected
              8      Operational error
              16     Usage or syntax error
              32     Fsck canceled by user request
              128    Shared-library error

root@fedora ~> fsck

fsck from util-linux 2.21.1
e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
/dev/mapper/vg-lv_root is mounted.  

WARNING!!!  The filesystem is mounted.   If you continue you ***WILL***
cause ***SEVERE*** filesystem damage.
Do you really want to continue<n>? no
check aborted.
e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
/dev/sda1 is mounted.  

WARNING!!!  The filesystem is mounted.   If you continue you ***WILL***
cause ***SEVERE*** filesystem damage.
Do you really want to continue<n>? no
check aborted.

root@fedora ~> fsck -n

fsck from util-linux 2.21.1
e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
Warning!  /dev/mapper/vg-lv_root is mounted.
Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check.
_Fedora-17-i686-: clean, 148243/2318336 files, 6288023/9248768 blocks
e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
Warning!  /dev/sda1 is mounted.
Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check.
/dev/sda1: clean, 343/128016 files, 62514/512000 blocks
root@fedora ~> 

Performance monitoring using ps - report a snapshot of the current processes.


	KEY   LONG         DESCRIPTION
       c     cmd          simple name of executable
       C     pcpu         cpu utilization
       f     flags        flags as in long format F field
       g     pgrp         process group ID
       G     tpgid        controlling tty process group ID
       j     cutime       cumulative user time
       J     cstime       cumulative system time
       k     utime        user time
       m     min_flt      number of minor page faults
       M     maj_flt      number of major page faults
       n     cmin_flt     cumulative minor page faults
       N     cmaj_flt     cumulative major page faults
       o     session      session ID
       p     pid          process ID
       P     ppid         parent process ID
       r     rss          resident set size
       R     resident     resident pages
       s     size         memory size in kilobytes
       S     share        amount of shared pages
       t     tty          the device number of the controlling tty
       T     start_time   time process was started
       U     uid          user ID number
       u     user         user name
       v     vsize        total VM size in kB
       y     priority     kernel scheduling priority


	CODE   NORMAL   HEADER
       %C     pcpu     %CPU
       %G     group    GROUP
       %P     ppid     PPID
       %U     user     USER
       %a     args     COMMAND
       %c     comm     COMMAND
       %g     rgroup   RGROUP
       %n     nice     NI
       %p     pid      PID
       %r     pgid     PGID
       %t     etime    ELAPSED
       %u     ruser    RUSER
       %x     time     TIME
       %y     tty      TTY
       %z     vsz      VSZ

Display the top ten running processes - sorted by cpu usage.

[root@fedora ~]# ps aucx | sort -nuk +3 | tail

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root     18085  0.1  0.1  12244  1520 pts/0    S    Dec08   2:15 wvdial
root      1883  0.4  0.7   8580  5532 ?        SNs  Dec07  11:15 preload
root      9394  1.0  1.6  18292 12440 ?        Ss   Dec07  23:11 collectl
root      1867  1.5  1.4  24704 10912 tty1     Rs+  Dec07  43:16 X
fedora    4918  3.5 33.4 771768 256556 pts/1   Sl+  Dec07  98:47 firefox

-o format Specify user-defined format. Identical to -o and --format.

# ps -eo user,etime,pid,pcpu,pmem,comm,size,vsize,start_time,maj_flt,min_flt,tty,ppid|grep -v '0.0'

USER         ELAPSED   PID %CPU %MEM COMMAND            SZ    VSZ START  MAJFL  MINFL TT        PPID
root      1-22:34:07  1867  1.5  1.4 X                8496  24704 Dec07     57 3656177 tty1     1818
root      1-22:34:07  1883  0.4  0.7 preload          5096   8580 Dec07      2 642119 ?            1
root      1-13:52:58  9394  1.0  1.6 collectl        11516  18292 Dec07     14   1224 ?            1
root      1-05:16:22 18085  0.1  0.1 wvdial           2648  12244 Dec08     16    800 pts/0    18084
fedora         37:06 18334  0.8  2.6 KKvirtualrooms  51672  81748 11:22    152  10771 pts/1        1
root           08:44 18820  0.1  0.3 bash             1108   6120 11:50      0   3636 pts/5    18817
fedora      17:25:59 23824  0.1  2.8 gedit           32256  79232 Dec08     75   5250 ?         2676

[root@fedora ~]# ps v|head

  PID TTY      STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS   RSS %MEM COMMAND
 1867 tty1     Rs+   44:56     57  1892 36111 11044  1.4 /usr/bin/X -background none :0
 3729 pts/0    S      0:00      0    27  6160  1420  0.1 su -
 3860 pts/0    S+     0:00     13   855  5380  1584  0.2 -bash
 3928 pts/0    S      0:00      0   855  4416   468  0.0 sh reliacne.sh
 5462 pts/3    Ss+    0:00      0   855  5392  2280  0.2 /bin/bash
 5512 pts/4    Ss     0:00      1   855  5392  1720  0.2 /bin/bash
 7871 pts/4    S      0:00      4    69  8694  1700  0.2 sudo su - fedora
 7872 pts/4    S      0:00      2    27  6160  1724  0.2 su - fedora
18084 pts/0    S      0:00      6    69  8694  1728  0.2 sudo wvdial reliance

[root@fedora ~]# ps u |head

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root      1867  1.6  1.4  24704 11044 tty1     Rs+  Dec07  44:59 /usr/bin/X -background none :
root      3729  0.0  0.1   6188  1420 pts/0    S    Dec07   0:00 su -
root      3860  0.0  0.2   6236  1584 pts/0    S+   Dec07   0:00 -bash
root      3928  0.0  0.0   5272   468 pts/0    S    Dec07   0:00 sh reliacne.sh
root      5462  0.0  0.2   6248  2280 pts/3    Ss+  Dec07   0:00 /bin/bash
root      5512  0.0  0.2   6248  1720 pts/4    Ss   Dec07   0:00 /bin/bash
root      7871  0.0  0.2   8764  1700 pts/4    S    Dec07   0:00 sudo su - fedora
root      7872  0.0  0.2   6188  1724 pts/4    S    Dec07   0:00 su - fedora
root     18084  0.0  0.2   8764  1728 pts/0    S    Dec08   0:00 sudo wvdial reliance

If RSS (resident set size, in KB) increases over time (so would %MEM),

it may indicate a memory leak in the application.

[root@fedora ~]# ps aux --sort pmem|grep -v 0.0

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root      1867  1.6  1.4  24704 11044 tty1     Rs+  Dec07  45:35 /usr/bin/X -background none :0 
root      1883  0.4  0.7   8580  5532 ?        SNs  Dec07  11:22 /usr/sbin/preload --verbose 1
fedora    4918  3.5 29.7 779648 227920 pts/1   Sl+  Dec07 100:33 ./firefox
root      9394  1.0  1.6  18292 12440 ?        Ss   Dec07  23:33 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/collectl
root     18085  0.1  0.1  12244  1520 pts/0    S    Dec08   2:19 wvdial reliance
fedora   23824  0.1  2.8  79232 22016 ?        Sl   Dec08   1:19 gedit

[root@fedora ~]# ps ev --pid=4918

PID TTY      STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS   RSS %MEM COMMAND
4918 pts/1    Sl+  100:33   1100    88 779559 227920 29.7 ./firefox XDG_VTNR=1 XDG_SESSION_ID=1 
HOSTNAME=fedora.example.com IMSETTINGS_INTEGRA
[root@fedora ~]# ps ev --pid=4918
PID TTY      STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS   RSS %MEM COMMAND
4918 pts/1    Sl+  100:33   1100    88 779559 227920 29.7 ./firefox XDG_VTNR=1 XDG_SESSION_ID=1 
HOSTNAME=fedora.example.com IMSETTINGS_INTEGRA

If runnable threads (r column) divided by the number of CPUs is greater than 1,there may be a CPU bottleneck.

If us+sy is close to 100%, then there may be a CPU bottleneck

[root@fedora ~]# vmstat -a 2 5

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free  inact active   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 0  0  63380  87552 333004 285372    0    0    10    14  163  173  6  1 91  1  0	
 0  0  63380  79616 341456 285380    0    0     0     0  214  155  6  6 88  0  0	
 0  0  63380  79368 341620 285416    0    0     0     0  222  155  6  8 86  0  0	
 0  0  63380  79368 341620 285428    0    0     0     0  399  249  6  9 85  0  0	
 1  0  63380  78980 341760 285432    0    0     0     0  668  304 19 14 68  0  0	

RAM memory usage information

[root@fedora ~]# ps v -A|sort -nrk 8|head

 
PID TTY      STAT   TIME  MAJFL   TRS   DRS   RSS    %MEM COMMAND
4918 pts/1    Sl+  102:47   1112    88 798795 237076 30.8 ./firefox
23824 ?        Sl     1:31     80   656 78575 22016  2.8 gedit
 3521 ?        Sl     1:52    109    44 58019 13812  1.7 lxterminal
 1867 tty1     Ss+   47:46     59  1892 67855 11052  1.4 /usr/bin/X -background none :0 
 9394 ?        Ss    23:47     14     3 18288 10052  1.3 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/collectl
 2676 ?        Ss     0:41     90   328 21731  8972  1.1 /usr/bin/openbox --startup /usr/
20629 ?        Ssl    1:06     25   231 44896  7676  1.0 /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd --no-debug
 2885 ?        Sl     0:00     56    16 50675  6688  0.8 abrt-applet
 1883 ?        SNs   11:28      2    39  8540  5532  0.7 /usr/sbin/preload --verbose 1

sar - Collect, report, or save system activity information.


Usage: sar [ options ] [ <interval> [ <count> ] ]
Main options and reports:
	-b	I/O and transfer rate statistics
	-B	Paging statistics
	-d	Block device statistics
	-H	Hugepages utilization statistics
	-q	Queue length and load average statistics
	-r	Memory utilization statistics
	-R	Memory statistics
	-S	Swap space utilization statistics
	-u [ ALL ]
		CPU utilization statistics
	-v	Kernel table statistics
	-w	Task creation and system switching statistics
	-W	Swapping statistics
	-y	TTY device statistics

[root@fedora ~]# sar -B 5 5

Linux 3.3.4-5.fc17.i686 (fedora.example.com) 	12/09/2012 	_i686_	(1 CPU)
12:44:44 PM  pgpgin/s pgpgout/s   fault/s  majflt/s  pgfree/s pgscank/s pgscand/s pgsteal/s    %vmeff
12:44:49 PM      0.00     10.53     99.60      0.00    304.05      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
12:44:54 PM      0.00     51.51    430.38      0.00    858.75      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
12:44:59 PM      0.00      8.11     23.12      0.00    490.47      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
12:45:04 PM      0.81    123.64    666.06      0.00    340.61      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
12:45:09 PM      0.00     15.42    100.00      0.00    101.22      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
Average:         0.16     41.91    264.36      0.00    419.62      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00

This report contains two columns: “fault/s” and “majflt/s”.

What is the difference between a “fault”, sometimes known as a “soft fault”, and a “major fault” (aka “hard fault”)? Soft fault happens when the process needs a page that is already in memory, but was freed by the page replacement process.

Major or “hard” fault happens when the page needs to be brought into memory from disk.

Major faults are, of course, much more expensive and take much longer to complete then the soft ones.

Large number of major page faults can slow the system down to the crawl.

On an average system, major page faults are responsible for the vast majority of the CPU time spent in the kernel mode.

System memory

[root@fedora ~]# sar -r 3 5

Linux 3.3.4-5.fc17.i686 (fedora.example.com) 	12/09/2012 	_i686_	(1 CPU)
12:48:48 PM kbmemfree kbmemused  %memused kbbuffers  kbcached  kbcommit   %commit  kbactive   kbinact
12:48:51 PM    147940    619416     80.72     49316    230616   1244392     53.93    304776    263268
12:48:54 PM    143352    624004     81.32     49316    235184   1248940     54.13    304780    267808
12:48:57 PM    146452    620904     80.91     49324    232324   1246020     54.00    305016    264828
12:49:00 PM    140624    626732     81.67     49324    238108   1251800     54.25    305044    270616
12:49:03 PM    139756    627600     81.79     49332    238616   1252280     54.27    305048    271128
Average:       143625    623731     81.28     49322    234970   1248686     54.12    304933    267530

atop - AT Computing's System & Process Monitor


Usage: atop [-flags] [interval [samples]]
		or
Usage: atop -w  file  [-S] [-a] [interval [samples]]
       atop -r [file] [-b hh:mm] [-e hh:mm] [-flags]

	generic flags:

	  -a  show or log all processes (i.s.o. active processes only)
	  -P  generate parseable output for specified label(s)
	  -L  alternate line length (default 80) in case of non-screen output
	  -f  show fixed number of lines with system-statistics
	  -l  show limited number of lines for certain resources
	  -1  show average-per-second i.s.o. total values

	  -x  no colors in case of high occupation
	  -g  show general process-info (default)
	  -m  show memory-related process-info
	  -d  show disk-related process-info
	  -n  show network-related process-info
	  -s  show scheduling-related process-info
	  -v  show various process-info (ppid, user/group, date/time)
	  -c  show command-line per process
	  -o  show own defined process-info
	  -u  show cumulated process-info per user
	  -p  show cumulated process-info per program (i.e. same name)

	  -C  sort processes in order of cpu-consumption (default)
	  -M  sort processes in order of memory-consumption
	  -D  sort processes in order of disk-activity
	  -N  sort processes in order of network-activity
	  -A  sort processes in order of most active resource (auto mode)

	specific flags for raw logfiles:

	  -w  write raw data to   file (compressed)
	  -r  read  raw data from file (compressed)
	      special file: y[y...] for yesterday (repeated)
	  -S  finish atop automatically before midnight (i.s.o. #samples)
	  -b  begin showing data from specified time
	  -e  finish showing data after specified time

	interval: number of seconds   (minimum 0)
	samples:  number of intervals (minimum 1)

Page size


  • Kernel breaks DISK IO into pages.
  • Default is 4K.
  • Reads and writes in 4K page size.
  • When application start its searches the CPU cache and Memory.
  • If the data dont exists there then it issues and MPF major page fault.
  • MPF issued to get the data from disk to RAM.
  • MPF is a request to disk.
  • Once the page is in buffer cache kernel will use it and it will result in MnPF minor page fault.
  • How to check how many MPF and MnPF occured.

[root@fedora ~]# /usr/bin/time -v date

	Sun Dec  9 13:23:45 IST 2012
	Command being timed: "date"
	Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
	Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 224
	Page size (bytes): 4096
	Exit status: 0

How to check how many MPF and MnPF occured - here we are opening acroread.

/usr/bin/time -v acroread

	Command being timed: "acroread"
	Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 363
	Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 28663
	Page size (bytes): 4096
	Exit status: 0

When you run it the second time MPF will be less

/usr/bin/time -v acroread

	Command being timed: "acroread"
	Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
	Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 7
	Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 25224
	Exit status: 0

Buffer Cache is used to minimize MPF & MnPF

[root@fedora ~]# cat /proc/meminfo |egrep 'Ca|Bu|Me'

MemTotal:         767356 kB
MemFree:           89092 kB
Buffers:           29292 kB
Cached:           331528 kB
SwapCached:        10444 kB

[root@fedora ~]# acroread

[root@fedora ~]# cat /proc/meminfo |egrep 'Ca|Bu|Me'
MemTotal:         767356 kB
MemFree:           73220 kB
Buffers:           29212 kB
Cached:           347292 kB
SwapCached:        10436 kB

Dirty Pages:

  • Pages - data - that are modified by the kernel in the memory, this needs to be synced backed to the disk.
  • pdflush daemon will move this pages from the memory to the disk to create more memory space.
  • If memory is less, then kswapd + pdflush will wirte pages to the disk.

[root@fedora ~]# vmstat 1

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu-----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 1  0  85208  59000  27420 340796    0    1    11    14  172  182  7  2 91  1  0	
 1  1  85208  52716  28128 343892    0    0  3088     0  822  968 37 16  3 44  0	
 2  6  85224  58044  26252 336596    0   16  5356    24 1278  961 40 21  0 38  0	
 0  6  85228  58044  24940 335028    0    4  2592   148 1275 1096 39 20  0 41  0	
 3  2  85228  54300  24988 337692    0    0  2216   160 1110  778 26 11  0 63  0	
 0  1  85260  60984  25004 331280    0   32  2784   672  900  724 29 20  0 51  0	
 3  1  85260  58264  25004 333208    0    0  5480     0  775  667 14 12  0 73  0	
 2  1  85424  60992  24048 331056    0  164  2544   220 1424  757 49 26  0 24  0	
 2  1  85716  61068  17348 328656    0  292  5808   292 1655  736 48 52  0  0  0	
 0  2  86628  61036  16476 320944    0  912  9024   912 1570  915 50 43  0  7  0	
 1  0  86628  54216  16476 324532    0    0  4120     0 1307 1313 85 14  0  1  0	
 2  1  86628  58068  16476 330960    0    0  5976     0 1173  670 77 15  0  8  0	

[root@fedora ~]# sar 1 100

Linux 3.3.4-5.fc17.i686 (fedora.example.com) 	12/09/2012 	_i686_	(1 CPU)

02:29:48 PM     CPU     %user     %nice   %system   %iowait    %steal     %idle
02:29:49 PM     all      7.07      0.00      9.09      0.00      0.00     83.84
02:29:50 PM     all      8.00      0.00      4.00      0.00      0.00     88.00

[root@fedora ~]# sar -B 1 3

Linux 3.3.4-5.fc17.i686 (fedora.example.com) 	12/09/2012 	_i686_	(1 CPU)

02:31:34 PM  pgpgin/s pgpgout/s   fault/s  majflt/s  pgfree/s pgscank/s pgscand/s pgsteal/s    %vmeff
02:31:35 PM      0.00      0.00    661.62      0.00     34.34      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
02:31:36 PM      0.00      0.00    274.00      0.00     32.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
02:31:37 PM      0.00      0.00    233.67      0.00     43.88      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
Average:         0.00      0.00    389.90      0.00     36.70      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00

collectl - Collects data that describes the current system status.


SYNOPSIS

       Record Mode - read data from live system and write to file or display on terminal

       collectl [-f file] [options]

       Playback Mode - read data from one or more raw data files and display on terminal

       collectl -p file1 [file2 ...] [options

Example how to collect the TOP command information from later days.

[root@fedora collectl]# collectl -p fedora-20121209-000000.raw.gz --top --from 02:22 --thru 02:23


### RECORD    1 >>> fedora <<< (1354999980.002) (Sun Dec  9 02:23:00 2012) ###
# TOP PROCESSES sorted by time (counters are /sec) 02:23:00
# PID  User     PR  PPID THRD S   VSZ   RSS CP  SysT  UsrT Pct  AccuTime  RKB  WKB MajF MinF Command
 4918  fedora   20  4361   29 S  755M  243M  0  0.22  0.97   1  01:30:22    0    0    0    2 ./firefox 
 9394  root     20     1    0 R   17M   12M  0  0.07  0.55   1  17:28.32    0    0    0    0 /usr/bin/pe
 1883  root     35     1    0 S    8M    5M  0  0.10  0.18   0  09:00.50    0    0    0   32 /usr/sbin/p
 1867  root     20  1818    0 S   23M   10M  0  0.07  0.03   0  41:05.32    0    0    0    0 /usr/bin/X 
18085  root     20 18084    0 S   11M    1M  0  0.04  0.04   0  01:38.62    0    0    0    0 wvdial 
 6282  root     20     2    0 S     0     0  0  0.02  0.00   0  00:00.05    0    0    0    0 kworker/0:0 
 1809  root     20     1    0 S    3M    1M  0  0.00  0.01   0  00:13.05    0    0    0    0 /usr/lib/sy
 1831  dbus     20     1    0 S    3M    1M  0  0.00  0.01   0  00:20.80    0    0    0    0 /bin/dbus-d
 1835  root     20     1    0 S    5M  892K  0  0.00  0.01   0  00:03.43    0    0    0    0 /usr/sbin/c
 2607  root     20     1   63 S   20M    1M  0  0.00  0.01   0  00:07.89    0    0    0    0 /usr/sbin/c

[root@fedora collectl]# pwd

/var/log/collectl

Files under /var/log/collectl

[root@fedora collectl]# ls
fedora-20121207-220643.raw.gz  fedora-20121209-000000.raw.gz  fedora-collectl-201212.log
fedora-20121208-000000.raw.gz  fedora-20121210-000000.raw.gz

Help

[root@fedora collectl]# collectl -x

This is the complete list of switches, more details in man page

      --align                   align on time boundary
      --all                     selects 'all' summary subsystems except slabs,
                                which means NO detail or process data either
			          note: the opposite of --all is -s-all
  -A, --address    addr[:port[:time]]      open a socket/port on addr with optional
                                timeout OR run as a server with no timeout
      --comment    string       add the string to the end of the header
  -C, --config     file         use alternate collectl.conf file
  -c, --count      count        collect this number of samples and exit
  -d, --debug      debug        see source for details or try -d1 to get started
  -D, --daemon                  run as a daemon
      --extract    file         extract a subset of a raw file into another one
  -f, --filename   file         name of directory/file to write to
  -F, --flush      seconds      number of seconds between output buffer flushes
      --from       time         time from which to playback data, -thru optional
                                   [yyyymmdd:]hh:mm[:ss][-[yyyymmdd:]hh:mm[:ss]]
      --grep       pattern      print timestamped entries in raw file for each
                                occurance of pattern
  -G, --group                   write process/slab data to separate, rawp file
  -h, --help                    print basic help
      --home                    move cursor to top before printing interval data
      --hr,--headerrepeat num   repeat headers every 'num' lines, once or never
      --import     file         name of file(s) to use for data importation
  -i, --interval   int[:pi:ei]] collection interval in seconds
                                  [defaults: interactive=1, daemon=10]
                                  pi is process interval [default=60]
                                  ei is environmental interval [default=300]
      --iosize                  include I/O sizes as appropriate in brief format
  -l, --limits     limits       override default exceptions name:val[-name:val]
  -m, --messages                write messages to log file and/or terminal
  -N, --nice                    give yourself a 'nicer' priority
      --nohup                   do not exit if the process that started collectl exits
      --offsettime secs         seconds by which to offset times during playback
  -o, --options                 misc formatting options, --showoptions for all
  -p, --playback   file         playback results from 'file'
      --passwd     file         use this instead if /etc/passwd for UID->name
      --pname      name         set process name to 'collectl-pname'
  -P, --plot                    generate output in 'plot' format
      --procanalyze             analyze process data, generating prcs file
      --quiet                   do note echo warning messages on the terminal
  -r, --rolllogs   time,d,m     roll logs at 'time', retaining for 'd' days, 
                                  every 'm' minutes [default: d=7,m=1440]
      --rawtoo                  when run with -P, this tell collectl to also
                                  create a raw log file as well
      --runas      uid[:gui]    collectl will change its uid/gid in daemon mode
                                  see man page for details
  -R, --runtime    duration     time to run in <number><units> format
                                  where unit is w,d,h,m,s
      --sep        separator    specify an alternate plot format separator
      --slabanalyze             analyze slab data, generating slbs file
      --stats                   same as -oA
  -s, --subsys     subsys       record/playback data from one or more subsystems
                                  --showsubsys for details
      --sumstat                 same as --stats but only summary
      --thru       time         time thru which to playback data (see --from)
      --top        [type][,num] show top 'num' processes sorted by type
                                  --showtopopts for details
      --tworaw                  synonym for -G and -group, which are now deprecated
      --umask      mask         set output file permissions mask (see man umask)
      --utime      mask         write diagnostic micro timestamps into raw file
      --verbose                 display output in verbose format (automatically
                                selected when brief doesn't make sense)
      -w, --wide                print wide field contents (don't use K/M/G)

Synonyms
  --utc = -oU

These are Alternate Display Formats
  --vmstat                    show output similar to vmstat

Logging options
  --rawtoo                    used with -P, write raw data to a log as well
  --export name[,options]     write data to an exported socket/file

Various types of help
  -h, --help                  print this text
  -v, --version               print version
  -V, --showdefs              print operational defaults
  -x, --helpext               extended help
  -X, --helpall               shows all help concatenated together

  --showoptions               show all the options
  --showsubopts               show all substem specific options
  --showsubsys                show all the subsystems
  --showtopopts               show --top options

  --showheader                show file header that 'would be' generated
  --showcolheaders            show column headers that 'would be' generated
  --showslabaliases           for SLUB allocator, show non-root aliases
  --showrootslabs             same as --showslabaliases but use 'root' names
  --whatsnew                  show summary of recent version new features

Copyright 2003-2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
collectl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the source kit

Hardcopy record of an inter‐active session


script makes a typescript of everything printed on your terminal. It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record of an inter‐active session as proof of an assignment, as the typescript file can be printed out later.

Usage:
 script [options] [file]

Options:
 -a, --append            append the output
 -c, --command <command> run command rather than interactive shell
 -r, --return            return exit code of the child process
 -f, --flush             run flush after each write
     --force             use output file even when it is a link
 -q, --quiet             be quiet
 -t, --timing[=<file>]   output timing data to stderr (or to FILE)
 -V, --version           output version information and exit
 -h, --help              display this help and exit

Starting Recording

script -t 2> record.timing -a record.session

Example:

fedora@fedora ~> script -t 2> record.timing -a record.session
Script started, file is record.session

fedora@fedora ~> uptime
 18:08:47 up 3 days,  4:43,  5 users,  load average: 0.32, 0.25, 0.21

fedora@fedora ~> last |head
fedora   pts/7                         Mon Dec 10 18:08   still logged in   
fedora   pts/6        :0               Mon Dec 10 18:00   still logged in   
fedora   pts/5        :0               Mon Dec 10 17:56   still logged in   
fedora   pts/6        :0               Mon Dec 10 13:41 - 16:04  (02:22)    
fedora   pts/5        :0               Mon Dec 10 08:26 - 16:04  (07:37)    
fedora   pts/2        :0               Mon Dec 10 08:25   still logged in   
fedora   pts/7        :0               Sun Dec  9 14:25 - 17:12  (02:46)    
fedora   pts/6        :0               Sun Dec  9 13:32 - 17:11  (03:39)    
fedora   pts/5        :0               Sun Dec  9 11:50 - 17:11  (05:20)    
fedora   pts/2        :0               Sun Dec  9 11:33 - 17:12  (05:38)    
fedora@fedora ~> exit
exit
Script done, file is record.session
fedora@fedora ~> 

Replay Recording

scriptreplay record.timing record.session

fedora@fedora ~> scriptreplay record.timing record.session

fedora@fedora ~> uptime
18:08:47 up 3 days,  4:43,  5 users,  load average: 0.32, 0.25, 0.21

fedora@fedora ~> last |head
fedora   pts/7                         Mon Dec 10 18:08   still logged in   
fedora   pts/6        :0               Mon Dec 10 18:00   still logged in   
fedora   pts/5        :0               Mon Dec 10 17:56   still logged in   
fedora   pts/6        :0               Mon Dec 10 13:41 - 16:04  (02:22)    
fedora   pts/5        :0               Mon Dec 10 08:26 - 16:04  (07:37)    
fedora   pts/2        :0               Mon Dec 10 08:25   still logged in   
fedora   pts/7        :0               Sun Dec  9 14:25 - 17:12  (02:46)    
fedora   pts/6        :0               Sun Dec  9 13:32 - 17:11  (03:39)    
fedora   pts/5        :0               Sun Dec  9 11:50 - 17:11  (05:20)    
fedora   pts/2        :0               Sun Dec  9 11:33 - 17:12  (05:38)    
fedora@fedora ~> exit

fedora@fedora ~> scriptreplay -h

Usage:
scriptreplay [-t] timingfile [typescript] [divisor]

Options:
 -t, --timing <file>     script timing output file
 -s, --typescript <file> script terminal session output file
 -d, --divisor <num>     speed up or slow down execution with time divisor
 -V, --version           output version information and exit
 -h, --help              display this help and exit

Setting up your first LAMP server on Ubuntu.

You can use apt-get to install these packages by running the following commands:

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install php5
sudo apt-get install php5-cli
sudo apt-get install php5-cgi
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
sudo apt-get install php5-pgsql
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo apt-get install mysql-doc-5.0

Linux Kernel recompilation with GRSECURITY

To recompile the Linux kernel, Upgrade to at *least* these software revisions before thinking you've encountered a bug! If you're unsure what version you're currently running, the suggested command should tell you.

Grsecurity is an innovative approach to security utilizing a multi-layered detection, prevention, and containment model.

It is licensed under the GPL. more details at Linux-Kernel-recompilation-with-GRSECURITY

iptables linux firewall for home office networks.

The below example has the follwoing settings.

# Internet Interface
INET_IFACE="ppp0"
# Local Interface Information
LOCAL_IFACE="eth0"
LOCAL_IP="192.168.1.1"
LOCAL_NET="192.168.1.0/24"
LOCAL_BCAST="192.168.1.255"

More - iptables-linux-firewall-for-home-office-networks

Requirements for Nagios Notifications.

If you want to receive email notifications for Nagios alerts, you need to install the mailx (Postfix) package.

sudo apt-get install mailx
sudo apt-get install postfix

Edit the /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg config file with your favorite editor and change the email address associated with the nagiosadmin contact definition to the address you'd like to use for receiving alerts. You'll have to edit the Nagios email notification commands found in /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg and change any '/bin/mail' references to '/usr/bin/mail'. Once you do that you'll need to restart Nagios to make the configuration changes live.

Requirements-for-Nagios-Notifications

Planning your Linux partition structure.

For a less simple partition structure:

/boot    60-100 meg 
swap     2 x memory
/tmp     1 Gig. mount /tmp with noexec,nosuid in /etc/fstab
/        6-10 Gig
/var     8-20 gig. Emails, logs and databases stored here
/usr     5-12 gig. source code
/home    rest of drive. Roughly 80% for user data. 
/home    Mount with nosuid in /etc/fstab if possible.

Feel free to modify these numbers as needed. Note, if you plan on installing dovecot, all email data is stored under /home and not /var, so adjust as needed. Also FreeBSD store mysql databases in /home/mysql/. Please have Basic development/compiling tools such as gcc, g++, and perl.

Working with LVM Logical Volume Manager

  • Creating hard drive space into logical volumes.
  • Since physical volumes cannot span over more than one drives.
  • /boot partition cannot be a lvm because the partition cannot be read by the boot loader
  • /boot should be on a separate partitions. - ext3
  • lvm2 uses the device mapper driver in the kernel 2.6
  • First create PV -physical volume, then create volume group-VG, and then the logical volume-LV.

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How to verify signature of downloaded source file with GPG

Here downloaded file is postfix-2.6.5.tar.gz and the signature is postfix-2.6.5.tar.gz.sig

$ gpg --verify postfix-2.6.5.tar.gz.sig postfix-2.6.5.tar.gz
gpg: Signature made Sat Aug 29 00:50:08 2009 UTC using RSA key ID C12BCD99
gpg: Good signature from "Wietse Venema <wietse@porcupine.org>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: FF 96 4A 8C 96 88 7C 6E  A4 EF AD BF 48 34 E1 BB

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namp scan techniques host discovery version detection and much more

ubuntu@mail:~$ man -k nmap
nmap (1)             - Network exploration tool and security / port scanner

Nmap 4.53 ( http://insecure.org )
Usage: nmap [Scan Type(s)] [Options] {target specification}

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Scan for any DHCP server on your network


fedora@fedora ~> sudo nmap -sU 192.168.56.0-255 -p 67-68

Starting Nmap 6.01 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-12-31 07:47 IST
Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.104
Host is up (0.00044s latency).
PORT   STATE  SERVICE
67/udp closed dhcps
68/udp closed dhcpc

Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (1 host up) scanned in 11.72 seconds
fedora@fedora ~>

Using perl to make changes to a list of files.

Example below add comment to all the virtual host conf file in apache.

perl -pi -e 's/Error/#Error/' virtual_host*.conf

perl -pi -e 's/ssl=ON/ssl=OFF/' /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/*/domains/*.conf

CentOS 5.4 rpms list download page.

http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.4/os/i386/CentOS/

Kernel Recompile Example Steps

  • Examples Kernle recompiel with GRSEC.
   [root@delhi ~]# finger @finger.kernel.org
   The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is:           2.6.22.9
   The latest prepatch for the stable Linux kernel tree is:    2.6.23-rc9
   The latest snapshot for the stable Linux kernel tree is:    2.6.23-rc9-git2
   The latest 2.4 version of the Linux kernel is:              2.4.35.3
   The latest prepatch for the 2.4 Linux kernel tree is:       2.4.36-pre1
   The latest 2.2 version of the Linux kernel is:              2.2.26
   The latest prepatch for the 2.2 Linux kernel tree is:       2.2.27-rc2
   The latest -mm patch to the stable Linux kernels is:        2.6.23-rc8-mm2
   [root@delhi ~]



   #!/bin/bash
   cd /usr/src
   wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.19.2.tar.gz
   wget http://www.grsecurity.net/grsecurity-2.1.10-2.6.19.2-200701222307.patch.gz
   tar -xvzf linux-2.6.19.2.tar.gz
   gunzip < grsecurity-2.1.10-2.6.19.2-200701222307.patch.gz | patch -p0
   mv linux-2.6.19.2  linux-2.6.19.2-grsec
   ln -s linux-2.6.19.2-grsec linux
   cd linux
   cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config
   ls -al |grep .config
   sleep 10
   make menuconfig
   sleep 10 
   make bzImage
   sleep 10
   make modules
   sleep 10
   make modules_install
   sleep 10
   make install
   vi /boot/grub/grub.conf




   #!/bin/bash
   cd /usr/src
   wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.17.11.tar.bz2
   wget http://grsecurity.org/grsecurity-2.1.9-2.6.17.11-200608282236.patch.gz
   tar -xjvf linux-2.6.17.11.tar.bz2
   gunzip < grsecurity-2.1.9-2.6.17.11-200608282236.patch.gz | patch -p0
   mv linux-2.6.17.11 linux-2.6.17.11-grsec
   ln -s linux-2.6.17.11-grsec linux
   cd linux
   cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config
   ls -al |grep .config
   sleep 10
   make menuconfig
   sleep 10 
   make bzImage
   sleep 10
   make modules
   sleep 10
   make modules_install
   sleep 10
   make install


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