2009 August | News, Reviews, Gadget Database

29Aug

Protect a Directory on Your Website with htaccess and htpasswd

htaccess is a way to password protect directories. It can also be used to give user or group specific access to directories. This guide will tell you how to setup apache for htaccess and to set up basic protection. Let’s begin.

Open up /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

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28Aug

Minicom Tutorial

Minicom is a serial communication program to access a network or security device through its console port.
This tool is similar to Hyper Terminal, which is by default available on a Microsoft Windows system.
Let’s install Minicom:

#apt-get install minicom

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27Aug

BWM Tutorial

This is a very tiny bandwidth monitor (not X11). Can monitor up to 16 interfaces in the in the same time, and shows totals too.

Installing BWM

#apt-get install bwm

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26Aug

cutter Tutorial

Cutter will send packets to both ends of a tcp/ip connection to close the connection. It is designed to be used on a Linux router to disconnect unwanted connections.

Install Cutter

#apt-get install cutter

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25Aug

etherwake Tutorial

You can wake up WOL compliant Computers which have been powered down to sleep mode or start WOL compliant Computers with a BIOS feature.
WOL is an abbreviation for Wake-on-LAN. It is a standard that allows you to turn on a computer from another location over a network connection.
etherwake also supports WOL passwords.
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24Aug

ethstats Tutorial

ethstats works by parsing the /proc/net/dev file that the Linux kernel maintains, and thus utilizes a negligible amount of CPU time. ethstats shows the throughput of each device in both megabits per second and packets per second.

Install ethstats

#apt-get install ethstats

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22Aug

ifstat Tutorial

ifstat is a tool to report network interfaces bandwith just like vmstat/iostat do for other system counters. It can monitor local interfaces by polling the kernel counters, or remote hosts interfaces using SNMP.

Install ifstat

#apt-get install ifstat

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21Aug

ipgrab Tutorial

Ipgrab is a network debugging utility not unlike tcpdump except that it prints out detailed header field information for data link, network and transport layers.

Install ipgrab in debian