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How To Patch and Protect Linux Kernel Zero Day Vulnerability CVE-2016-0728

Jan 20, 2016
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Security, Tutorials

Very serious security problem has been found in the Linux kernel. Local privilege escalation vulnerability has existed since 2012. This bug affects millions of Android or Linux applications to escalate privileges. Any server or desktop (32 or 64 bit) with Linux Kernel version 3.8+ is vulnerable. How do I fix this problem?

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How to find PID of a process listening on port?

Nov 12, 2015
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Readings, Tutorials

In Linux, many times, you want to find out the PID of a process which is listening on a port e.g. if multiple apache(httpd) servers are running on a host then, how do you find the PID of the apache(httpd) listening on port 8080?

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How to install ncurses library on a Linux (CentOS, Debian)

Sep 08, 2015
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Tutorials

Ncurses library is missing? What it is and how do I install it on a Linux operating system?

Ncurses is a programming library that provides an API which allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. It is a toolkit for developing “GUI-like” application software that runs under a terminal emulator. It also optimizes screen changes, in order to reduce the latency experienced when using remote shells.

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How to Install and Configure MongoDB on Ubuntu 14.04 x64

Aug 19, 2015
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Tutorials

In this howto we’ll setup and configure MongoDB server on Ubuntu 14.04 x64 (it’s only available for x64 LTS distributions). To begin we have to setup custom repository:

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Load monitoring in Linux using atop

Jul 16, 2015
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Readings, Tutorials

What is atop?

The program atop is an interactive monitor to view the load on a Linux system. It shows the occupation of the most critical hardware resources (from a performance point of view) on system level, i.e. cpu, memory, disk and network.

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