Compacting VirtualBox’s VDI file size? Rumi, February 8, 2017 Run defrag in the guest (Windows only) Nullify free space: With a Linux Guest run this: sudo dd if=/dev/zero | pv | sudo dd of=/bigemptyfile bs=4096k sudo rm -rf /bigemptyfile Continue Reading
Remove apache, phpmyadmin etc from ubuntu 16.04 Rumi, February 4, 2017 You can remove the packages in Ubuntu by executing the commands: dpkg –purge phpmyadmin dpkg –purge mysql-server dpkg –purge apache2.2-common Or You have option also to remove the following packages: sudo apt-get remove apache2* sudo apt-get remove phpmyadmin sudo apt-get remove mysql-server sudo apt-get remove php5 Or sudo apt-get –purge… Continue Reading
Create a Sudo User on Debian or Ubuntu Rumi, January 29, 2017 Log in to your server as the root user. ssh root@server_ip_address Use the adduser command to add a new user to your system. Be sure to replace username with the user that you want to create. adduser username Set and confirm the new user’s password at the prompt. A strong… Continue Reading
Installing SqlMap in Ubuntu / any Linux distro for SQL Injection Rumi, January 27, 2017 SQLMAP is a automated SQL injection tool which does most of the work for you. If you don’t know what SQL injection is head over here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection Using SQLMAP, you can “hack” many databases in very short time. In the next post, i will show you how to dump database tables… Continue Reading
All about VPN ports Rumi, January 26, 2017 1) If RRAS based VPN server is behind a firewall (i.e. a firewall is placed between Internet and RRAS server), then following ports need to be opened (bidirectional) on this firewall to allow VPN traffic to pass through: – For PPTP: IP Protocol=TCP, TCP Port number=1723 <- Used by PPTP control path IP Protocol=GRE (value… Continue Reading
Increase MySQL connections max_connections Rumi, January 19, 2017 If you need to increase MySQL Connections without MySQL restart do like below mysql> show variables like ‘max_connections’; +—————–+——-+ | Variable_name | Value | +—————–+——-+ | max_connections | 100 | +—————–+——-+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> SET GLOBAL max_connections = 150; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)… Continue Reading
Learning watch command with examples! Rumi, January 18, 2017 watch date watch -d date watch -n 10 df -h watch -t date watch echo “‘”‘$$'”‘” watch echo $$ watch -n 0.5 echo $$ watch -n 1 ‘ps -e -o pid,uname,cmd,pmem,pcpu –sort=-pmem,-pcpu | head -15’ watch -d -n 1 ifconfig watch -n 1 tail /var/log/messages watch -d=cumulative date watch “du… Continue Reading
Fixing error: ‘Access denied for user ‘debian-sys-maint’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)’ Rumi, January 17, 2017 For all you Ubuntu/MySQL developers out there, have you ever seen the following? neo@thematrix:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart * Stopping MySQL database server mysqld [fail] * Starting MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ] /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at ‘localhost’ failed error: ‘Access denied for user ‘debian-sys-maint’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)’ So,… Continue Reading
Tightvnc setup on Linux Mint Rumi, January 16, 2017 sudo apt-get install tightvncserver cd ~/.vnc ls nano (or your favorite text editor.) xstartup. edit anything you need to. Then run: tightvncserver Go to your other computer. Run a vnc viewer. And enter in your IP like- <vncserverIP>:1 Continue Reading
Check processor and cpu details Rumi, January 15, 2017 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep vendor | uniq $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ‘model name’ | uniq $ lscpu $ lscpu | grep -i mhz $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i mhz | uniq $ watch -n 0.1 “cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i mhz” $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor Continue Reading