Lynis is a security audit tool for Unix and Linux based systems. It assists auditor in scanning the system and its security defenses helps in improving system hardening. This software will determine system information which is specific to OS type, installed packages, system and network configuration. Additionally, it will check the system for configuration errors and security issues. This article explains about how to install lynis on Ubuntu.FeaturesIt is an open sourceIt supported shell scriptNo dependenciesEasy to understandDynamic OS detectionIt supported 300+ built-in testsIt supports for custom testsPlugin supportIt supports compliance checksExtensive software supportInstalling of LynisLynis doesn’t required any installation, ... Read More

The Pleasant Interactive Shell which is called and abbreviated as FISH is a shell for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. It is a unique and innovative command line environment with a number of priceless improvements. Fish is designed to work with any other shell like bash or ZSH. Unlike different shells which disables more than a few elements with the aid of default to save process resource, FISH maintains all of them enabled by means of default in an effort to make most out of it.FeaturesIt is a User-friendly and interactive shellIt has so many powerful featuresInbuilt Web-based configurationIt supported ... Read More

Sometimes, it becomes important to find which files or directories are ingesting up, all of your disk area on a Linux. Similarly, we should be able to discover a particular directory location on file system such as /tmp/ or /var/ or /domestic/. This article will help you to use Unix and Linux commands for finding the most important or biggest files or directories on the file systems.Although, there is no shortcut command which is available to discover the largest documents/directories on a Linux/UNIX/BSD file system but there is a possibility which we will be showcasing you about.By aggregating the following ... Read More

As the saying goes – A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. In IT world too mistakes are commonly done by new comers in the field due to inexperience. The Unix world is no different from the rest, and system admins unknowingly tend to commit some avoidable errors in their early days in the beginning of their career. Here are a few mistakes which are made by new system admins or users while working at UNIX prompt.This article explains the 10 most common Linux mistakes.userdel ... Read More

Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been created to be used under the production of Linux/UNIX servers but due to its simplicity and small size it can be used on embedded devices as well. This article explains about “How to install Minitorix on Ubuntu”.Adding the Monitorix RepositoryTo add the Monitorix Repository, open /etc/apt/sources.list file as shown below –$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.listThe sample output should be like this –# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 16.04 LTS _Xenial Xerus_ - Release amd64 (20160420.1)]/ xenial main restricted # See ... Read More

Do you know how to check the performance of a hard drive like checking the read and write speed on your Linux operating systems? then, this article is for you!! which is basically created to provide you an overview of DD command, which is geared towards better guidance to new users and as an exploration tour for getting started to the Linux world.What is DD Command?DD is a command-line utility for Unix and Unix-like operating systems where the primary purpose is to copy a file and converting the format of the data during the process.How to Test Hard Disk using ... Read More

LinuxLinux is an open source multi-tasking, multi-user operating system. It was initially developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991. Linux OS is widely used in desktops, mobiles, mainframes etc.UnixUnix is multi-tasking, multi-user operating system but is not free to use and is not open source. It was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson team at AT&T Bell Labs. It is widely used on servers, workstations etc. Following are the important differences between Linux and Unix.Following are the important difference between Linux and Unix.Sr. No.KeyLinuxUnix1DevelopmentLinux is open source and is developed by Linux community of developers.Unix was developed by AT&T Bell labs ... Read More

In this article, we will learn how to use Anisble to configure and install production Elastic Search cluster on CentOS7 which ensures that the Elasticsearch nodes will be secure from outside network .we will use VPN services to connect to the clusters.Elasticsearch is a very popular open source search, server which can be used for real-time distributed search and analysis of the data for better performance, stability and for scalability we need the Elasticsearch to be deployed across multiple servers as a cluster.PrerequisitesWe need a minimum of three CentOS 7 server environments with private networking since the Elasticsearch cluster needed ... Read More

Init is the parent of all processes, executed by the kernel during the booting of a system. Its principle role is to create processes from a script stored in the file /etc/inittab. It usually has entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line that users can log in. It controls autonomous processes required by any particular system.After reading this file, how the system should be set up in each runlevel is determined by init and also set default runlevel. Init starts all background process after setting default runlevel for the system.RunlevelsRunlevel, a software configuration of the system which allows ... Read More

Pipes were meant for communication between related processes. We Cannot use pipes for unrelated process communication. Then to achieve unrelated processes communication, the simple answer is Named Pipes. Even though this works for related processes, it gives no meaning to use the named pipes for related process communication.Unlike pipe, we can use single named pipe that can be used for two-way communication (communication between the server and the client, plus the client and the server at the same time) as Named Pipe supports bi-directional communication.Another name for named pipe is FIFO (First-In-First-Out). Let us see the system call (mknod()) to ... Read More