Sniffers: dsniff Various tools to sniff network traffic for cleartext insecurities This package contains several tools to listen to and create network traffic: * arpspoof – Send out unrequested (and possibly forged) arp replies. * dnsspoof – forge replies to arbitrary DNS address / pointer queries on the Local Area Network. * dsniff – password […]
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By now many I have come accustom to installing programs using the apt-get method in Ubuntu, but there comes a time where we need to remember those other commands to install things. For example when attempting to install software packaged in .bundle file format. It all started when I downloaded VMware player and went to […]
Woah! I just noticed this was missing. I have used this for many years as my go to location for messages in my Ubuntu Linux environments. With the newest update of Ubuntu this seems to be gone. {Shocker} But, there is no need for worrying… The logs I was looking for are in /var/log/syslog. […]
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The Daily Reboot —
There are times when you had a bad system and know it. And the action to keep it available is rebooting daily. While I am not in favor of the reboot, it may be necessary. So I use the following steps on a pesky Ubuntu server I know. Log into your Ubuntu server and ‘sudo […]
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Kernel Panic Reboot (Ubuntu)
While I never had this happen on my Ubuntu Web Server, I have known a system in my life that seems to panic and lock up. Ubuntu Server doesn’t have this enabled by default, so I enabled it by adding the following to /etc/sysctrl.conf ‘kernal.panic=60’ This will auto reboot my server 60 seconds after a […]
alsamixer is a graphical mixer program for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). It is used to configure sound settings and to adjust the volume. It has an ncurses user interface and does not require the X Window System. It supports multiple sound cards with multiple devices. The top-left corner of alsamixer is the area […]