If you use a small PC as Home Server NAS with a attached USB Drive you perhaps remark that the drive ALWAYS spinning if the Samba Daemon is active. I researched this behavior and found out that the Samba Deamon (smbd) locks the drive access via VFS to the Kernel for the Powermanagement Tools like […]
Category: Raspian
Linux: Perfect Secure Travel Laptop
If you want to Travel to other Countries (Border-Control), you should know some things: Buy a older Acer Laptop with Micro SSD Harddisk and SATA CDROM Slot Buy a SATA CDROM Adaptor for 10$, open the Laptop and remove the SATA Drive put it into the SATA Adaptor Don’t put Screws into the Laptop to […]
Bug: XDM Login Manager fails start on Boot
Seen on ubuntu 22.04 after do-release-upgrade the xdm Login Manager fails to start, cause a old xdm.pid file hangs from last shutdown on “/run/xdm.pid”. XDM prevent start on a old PID File!! Workaround edit Roots crontab to purge it: sudo crontab -e @reboot rm -rf /run/xdm.pid > /dev/null 2>&1 quit and save with “:wq!” ..reboot
Ubuntu: Chromium install without snap
Howto: Remove all snaps and install chromium on ubuntu 20.XX-24.XX sudo snap remove "package-name" (first all gtk-XX,gnone-xx and all "base+core") sudo apt-get remove snap snapd sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xtradeb/apps (Answere Question ENTER) sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install chromium
Major Bug: Backdoor inside XZ Libs / SSH Backdoor
Brand New: SSH Backdoor seen on Linux XZ-Libs published with Backdoor! Prio HIGH! (The Backdoor offers break out of a SSH Connection) Update your Systems! Read: Article/Post/Backdoor-XZ-SSH Ubuntu Report Debian Report
Linux: find files modified in special Month
If you want to free space on Backups you can use find to select a special month: find -newerct "1 Sep 2023" ! -newerct "1 DEC 2023" -delete This command removes files created from 01.Sep.2023 to 01.Dec.2023. ..very useful..
Major Tools for your IT Systems
A must “USE” in these insecure days: nmap Portscan Tool use nmap -PN IP-Address to check failed Firewall Settings! arp-scan Network Scan to find active devices iftop to detect traffic and used Ports on a physical network Interface! ps aux show active processes on a Linux System htop more human friendly Process Monitor iotop human […]
Script DNS Blocker DNSMASQ
If you tested pihole, you perhaps look for a smaller Command Line version? Install dnsmasq by: sudo apt-get install dnsmasq Here DNS Rule Injector Script (copy & paste): blocker.sh # www.linuxonlinehelp.eu 2019 # DNS Blocker for Small Linux with dnsmasq # #!/bin/bash # goto tmp (tmpfs) cd /tmp/ # get URL-Blocklists wget -O blocklist.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Kowabit.txt […]