Monthly Archives: October 2007

Quick and Handy Samba Setup

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Samuel Huckins

I just never got around to setting up and using Samba on my home network. I had my files in SVN or would login to the box that had what I needed, or used some other mechanism. But a certain … Continue reading →

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More Tasty Tips for DenyHosts

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Samuel Huckins

After living with DenyHosts for some time, I have made some additional configuration changes that are quite helpful. Whitelist known good IPsI found after not very long that my home IP address had been added to my webserver’s hosts.deny file … Continue reading →

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DenyHosts: Watches your SSH log for you

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Samuel Huckins

While I knew that brute-force attacks on SSH servers are very common, I had not taken the time to look at the connection attempt logs on my home servers until recently. To do that on Ubuntu run: 1sudo tail -n … Continue reading →

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Topping top: htop

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Samuel Huckins

Top is a very handy and common application. But there is always room for improvement, even in common and simple programs. In this case, meet htop. It performs a similar function to top, viz. showing you what is using your … Continue reading →

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Run vim without being there…

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Samuel Huckins

Say you have a text file. You need to alter it in some regular way before sending it on somewhere else. Instead of editing by hand, there is a neat option you can use to edit the file with familiar … Continue reading →

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