Category Archives: Tutoriale Linux
How to Install fail2ban on Ubuntu Server 18.04 | Linux.com
If you’re looking to secure your Ubuntu Server, one of the first things you should do is install the fail2ban intrusion detection system. What fail2ban does is monitor specific log files (in /var/log) for failed login attempts or automated attacks on your server. When an attempted compromise is discovered from an IP address, fail2ban then blocks the IP address (by adding a new chain to iptables) from gaining entry (or attempting to further attack) the server.
Believe it or not, fail2ban is so easy to install and use, it should be considered a no-brainer for all Linux servers.
I want to walk you through the process of installing fail2ban on Ubuntu Server 18.04. I’ll then show you how to add a jail to monitor for failed SSH login attempts.
Read more at TechRepublic
Schedule One-Time Commands with the Unix at Tool | Linux.com
Cron is nice and all, but don’t forget about its cousin at.
…even though I’ve been using Linux for 20 years, I still learn about new (to me) command-line tools all the time. In this “Back to Basics” article series, I plan to cover some of the command-line tools that those new to Linux may never have used before. For those of you who are more advanced, I’ll spread out this series, so you can expect future articles to be more technical. In this article, I describe how to use the at utility to schedule jobs to run at a later date.
at vs. Cron
at is one of those commands that isn’t discussed very much. When people talk about scheduling commands, typically cron gets the most coverage. Cron allows you to schedule commands to be run on a periodic basis. With cron, you can run a command as frequently as every minute or as seldom as once a day, week, month or even year. You also can define more sophisticated rules, so commands run, for example, every five minutes, every weekday, every other hour and many other combinations. System administrators sometimes will use cron to schedule a local script to collect metrics every minute or to schedule backups.
Read more at Linux Journal
Learn Node.js, Unit 3: A tour of Node.js | Linux.com
Node is often described as “JavaScript on the server”, but that doesn’t quite do it justice. In fact, any description of Node.js I can offer will be unfairly reductionist, so let me start with the one provided by the Node team:
“Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.” (Source)
That’s a fine description, but it kinda needs a picture, doesn’t it? If you look on the Node.js website, you’ll notice there are no high-level diagrams of the Node.js architecture. Yet, if you search for “Node.js architecture diagram” there are approximately 178 billion different diagrams that attempt to paint an overall picture of Node (I’ll refer to Node.js as Node from now on). After looking at a few of them, I just didn’t see one that fit with the way I’ve structured the material in this course, so I came up with this:
Figure 1. The Node.js architecture stack
Read more at IBM Developers
How to Install a Device Driver on Linux | Linux.com
…most default Linux drivers are open source and integrated into the system, which makes installing any drivers that are not included quite complicated, even though most hardware devices can be automatically detected.
To learn more about how Linux drivers work, I recommend reading An Introduction to Device Drivers in the book Linux Device Drivers.
Two approaches to finding drivers
1. User interfaces
If you are new to Linux and coming from the Windows or MacOS world, you’ll be glad to know that Linux offers ways to see whether a driver is available through wizard-like programs. Ubuntu offers the Additional Drivers option. Other Linux distributions provide helper programs, like Package Manager for GNOME, that you can check for available drivers.
2. Command line
What if you can’t find a driver through your nice user interface application? Or you only have access through the shell with no graphic interface whatsoever? Maybe you’ve even decided to expand your skills by using a console. You have two options:
Read more at OpenSource.com
Ruby in Containers | Linux.com
There was a time when deploying software was an event, a ceremony because of the difficulty that was required to keep this consistency. Teams spent a lot of time making the destination environments run the software as the source environment. They thereafter prayed that the gods kept the software running perfectly in production as in development.
With containers, deployments are more frequent because we package our applications with their libraries as a unit making them portable thereby helping us maintain consistency and reliability when moving software between environments. For developers, this is improved productivity, portability and ease of scaling.
Because of this portability, containers have become the universal language of the cloud allowing us to move software from one cloud to another without much trouble.
In this article, I will discuss two major concepts to note while working with containers in Ruby. I will discuss how to create small container images and how to test them.
Read more at The New Stack
