To display shell command history with date and time under a UNIX or Linux operating systems, set up the HISTTIMEFORMAT. This will set the timestamp information associated with each bash…

From http://delimitry.blogspot.in/2014/10/useful-tools-for-ctf.html I've selected useful and must-have tools for CTF games and computer security competitions. Most of this tools are often indispensable during the games (especially task-based/jeopardy CTF games). I've combined tools by…

Hi, Many people seem to have a lot of questions about downgrading php, and evidently many do not know about the roll-back option in easyapache. ***Important: This feature is marked…

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/649 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/650 https://access.redhat.com/articles/1200223 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1293.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2362-1/ More detailed info: https://securityblog.redhat.com/2014/09/24/bash-×specially-crafted-environment-variables-code-injection-attack/ Stephane Chazelas discovered a vulnerability in bash, related to how environment variables are processed: trailing code in function definitions was executed,…

From bpkg.io

JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg! With bpkg you can easily install and manage Bash packages. It takes care of installing/uninstalling, execution permissions and everything so you can simply do the following:
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Flushing the Cached Memory
By default, Linux has a very efficient memory management process that should be freeing any cached memory on the server. However, the server may, at times, decide that the cached memory is needed but is being used which can lead to memory related issues.

You can use the following command to flush your cache memory
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In approximately 60 days, the Basic profile in EasyApache will build Apache 2.4 by default. This change will not alter existing EasyApache profiles that build Apache 2.2. If you plan…