The other day while troubleshooting an issue on a server I noticed something I hadn’t ever noticed before which was an exclamation mark next to the uptime output from the htop command. After investigating and looking over the source I found that it is a bonus letting you know that your server has been up…
I have recently gotten a macbook pro to play around with so my next few articles will most likely cover getting the tools and such the way I want them on the mac book pro. The first thing I discovered is that many of the command line tools which I use every day such as…
I was working on an article a couple days ago with a friend and he had sent over some commands for me to reference in the article which included the “sort -R” command. The sort -R switch will randomly sort the contents of a file which is very useful in certain situations. The problem is…
I have had a lot of questions lately about making patches. On Backtrack we get a lot of user submissions and many times we need a patch rather than a modified source file. The reason being is that a patch can be documented and contains the specific changes made to the source file and can…
I am getting ready for a password contest at Defcon that Alex and I and a few other guys from the Hashcat team are going to enter and I decided to install John the Ripper on a Cent OS box in case I needed it for anything. John is in the yum repos however the…
I was working on one of the subversion servers to trying to get email alerts every time a commit was made. I managed to get it going but that will be a new article. This article details a error I received on a Ubuntu server while trying to install pysvn .
TCtrace is like a brother to itrace and traceroute but it uses TCP SYN packets to trace. This makes it possible for you to trace through firewalls if you know one TCP service that is allowed to pass from the outside. Once again its a very simple tool like the last few I have reviewed…
Installing the EPEL repository on CentOS Linux is easy to do so the below is simply a reference point if needed by anyone. EPEL stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux and is a community based repository that was created for add-on Fedora Linux packages. There are many cases where installation instructions assume that the…
If you are using Backtrack Linux for your wireless Pentesting needs you will not need this how to, however, if you are using another distro or a older version of cowpatty you will have this issue.