This website has recently been off-line for just over two days due to, in this case, poor administration. Hands up! my error/s. I am running this site on a server running SuSE Leap 15.0 with the latest ‘btrfs’ file system, and was looking to upgrade to the latest SuSE fixes release, 15.1. Having...
To show the list of banned IPs with Fail2ban, you have to know the name of the jail you want to show the blocked IPs’. To display the active jails type: # fail2ban-client status Now select the required jail to show the banned IPs # fail2ban-client status <JAIL-NAME> For example to show banned IPs...
Chris Fehn has Left Slipknot According to Band Statement Following a statement from Corey Taylor the other day in regards to the ongoing lawsuit with drummer Chris Fehn the band today announced that he’s been removed from the band. The statement (see below) was posted on the band’s website today. Fehn is yet to...
Know your rights when making purchases. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, traders are legally responsible to sell goods which are: ‘As described’, meaning the actual product must match any description(s) given to the customer before purchase by which the goods are identified. ‘Of satisfactory quality’, that...
Running Linux/UNIX servers for several sites I was fed up with seeing the numerous 403 and 404 errors being reported daily in Apache’s access log files which had been growing in number over the past several years. So, I decided to make a stance and to start sticking two fingers up to constant Brute...
So, you want to build your own Linux web server so that you can have 100% complete control over your own site? But, there is a problem, your ISP can only provide you with a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) IP address and not a Static IP address unless you upgrade to a business...
Linux security. A method of protecting your WordPress server against ‘brute force’ attacks. ‘Brute Force’ attacks on your administration access files are wasting your server’s resources and eating away at your bandwidth. Without firewall blocking, your bandwidth cannot be protected. However, your server’s resources can. Apache’s (or equivalent web-server’s) logfiles are telling you that...
AWStats is a log analyzer which creates advanced web, ftp, mail and streaming server statistics reports based on data contained in your server logs. This data is graphically presented in your browser. I used to use AWStats on my Apache based servers years ago, and even today it is not part of the SuSE...
By far the simplest way to redirect mail for existing users and also for users that don’t exist is by adding an entry in the /etc/aliases file. If you are competent with using the visual editor (vi) command, then head on over to the /etc directory and insert your alias at the bottom of...