by Visakh S | Jul 24, 2015 | Server Management
Qualys reported on 23rd July an important root privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2015-3246), and DoS attack vulnerability (CVE-2015-3245) for Linux servers using RedHat’s libuser package. Here’s how you can protect your CentOS and RedHat server from...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 3, 2010 | Server Administration
Linux has always been blessed. As we have a large number of people working for the betterment of the product, we’ll have bug fixes/security updates every now and then. This has got 2 sides. The good part- if you keep on upgrading; you will have a more secure,...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Dec 11, 2009 | Server Administration
Linux is a premium force in the web hosting industry, which is also achieving popularity as a PC operating system nowadays. When it comes to hosting a website, Linux web servers are primarily chosen due to their flexibility, stability and security of services. But as...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 26, 2009 | Apache, Server Administration
In every server farm, backup systems play a vital role in data retention and and recovery. When it comes to Linux, there are many open source backup solutions available. You can setup a well organized backup strategy using rsync, dd, tar, cpio etc, as per your...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Oct 26, 2009 | Server Administration
The fourth extended file system was developed as the successor of the commonly used ext3 journaled file system. The ext4 file system has significant advantages over the ext3 and ext2 file systems. Support for the ext4 file system has been available from the Linux...
