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Install and run ClamAV
ClamAV is a popular malware scanner that can help to find malware on your accounts. You are able to find more information about that at the following link: http://clamav.net This software has many built in definitions that will find *most* of the malicious files under your accounts. It can find many shells, phishing sites and [...]
Check out our IP locator
New addition to the site! Find the country, city, state and ISP of any IP address. Check it out here: RandomLinux.com IP lookup Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tumblr it Tweet about it Subscribe [...]
Script to remove all drafts from WordPress
If you use a RSS feed aggregator for wordpress, you could end up with quite a few drafts that you will never use and need to remove. There are plugins for WordPress that will take care of this issue for you, however from my experience, they tend to be slow and can time out. In [...]
Zip a file or folder in Linux
To zip particular files, you can use the following: zip yourarchive.zip file1 file2 file3 To zip full directories recursively, you will add the -r flag. zip -r nameofyourarchive.zip folder That will zip everything everything that is in the folder that you choose, including any other folders that are inside of it. Know of other ways [...]
Bash script to remove unused WordPress tags
If you use an autotagging plugin in WordPress and you remove some posts, you may have tags left over in your database that are no longer being used. Since I’ve had that problem and couldn’t find a plugin to do what I wanted, I decided to write a script to remove those. You can see [...]
Configure history to show the time and date
Normally by default, your history will show just the number of the command that was run and the command. root@server [~]# history | head 10 top 11 df -h 12 hostname -i There are many times that you will want the time and date as well though, such as for server auditing and security reasons. [...]
Find out how much memory is used and available on your Linux computer
To see the amount of memory that is free on your computer, you can use the free command. This will show you the amount of memory that you have total, as well as how much is being used. Using the free command with no flags will show you the amount in bytes. [~]# free total [...]
7 Good Dropbox Alternatives for Linux
Dropbox is probably the most popular online file storage and synchronization tool among Linux users. And as we have seen earlier, it is rather easy to install Dropbox in Ubuntu. But as a Linux user, what really are the alternatives to Dropbox for online file storage? Lets find out. Read more Blog this! Bookmark on [...]
Red Hat declares war against VMware on cloud front
Red Hat declared war on VMware’s Cloud Foundry today, announcing that 65 new companies have joined the Open Virtualization Alliance backing KVM in a month’s time. In May, Red Hat, SUSE, BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM and Intel, announced the formation of the Open Virtualization Alliance. As of today, 65 new members have joined, [...]
