With malicious attacks coming from anywhere targeting our webservers, we, as system administrators, need to know whether the server is under a certain attack, like Denial of Service or most commonly known as DoS attacks.
DoS attack by definition is an attack towards a certain computer, like a webserver, to make it inaccessible to its intended [...]

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If you are using Windows, you are probably familiar with task scheduler to schedule certain tasks automatically. With Linux, tasks can be done on scheduled dates with cron.
cron is the service that works like task scheduler in Windows and can be used if you want to automate repetitive tasks like generating reports everyday or [...]

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How to test if PHP connects to MySQL database?
There are numerous times when I have to setup Apache and PHP on a freshly installed Linux server. Considering that not only that Apache service should work, I also have to make sure that PHP and MySQL are working properly together.
Forgetful that I am, I always tend [...]

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Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX® command line efficiency — and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, so you can learn exactly why these UNIX [...]

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