Security
Site Hacked with Pharmacy Spammy Content on search listings
Posted on 28 March 2012
Got a email* today today that adminschoice.com searches on google.com are resulting in pharmacy spammy urls and contents. It took around three hours to find out what is happening and fixing it. Finally the site should be free of spam now. It may take a while to update google index entries but redirect is not [...] Continue Reading
Basics
Unix Date Format Examples
Posted on 10 March 2012
Unix date format is needed in the scripts, timestamped log files and script generated reports . This article attempts to simply date formatting with several examples . Date command in Unix is used to format date as well as time . First portion of this article covers Date function and the second portion has the [...] Continue Reading
Linux
Linux RPMs – All you need to know
Posted on 28 April 2011
This document contains an overview of the principal RPM commands for installing, uninstalling, upgrading, querying, listing, and checking RPM packages on your Red Hat Linux system. This document uses apache rpm httpd-2.0.49-4.i386.rpm , as an example. About RPM naming conventions All rpms follow the similar naming conventions package name version release architecture Package Type httpd [...] Continue Reading
Basics, Security
How to Configure ssh without password
Posted on 07 December 2010
Passwordless access for ssh and sftp , How to do sftp & ssh without password – Step by Step This a real life example of configuring passwordless access for two users . The user ‘web’ in this case needs a secure password less access to another user james in a server ‘devserver’ . Follow the [...] Continue Reading
Uncategorized
Php Date Format
Posted on 05 February 2010
Date time formatting in PHP Many scripts written in php need date and time function . PHP has many predfined date formats and you can also customized it as per your need . Here are some of the date format examples and additional details for php. Examples Variable $today has different formats as we set [...] Continue Reading
NIS
NISplus Installation & Administration
Posted on 29 December 2009
NISplus is network which allows you to store client information at a central place where all the clients have access. This enables system administrators to manage a group of servers from a central place. This article discusses the nisplus objects , installation of servers ,clients and administration commands. 1.0 Introduction to NIS+ 1.1 Objects in [...] Continue Reading