How to Create the Swap File on Ubuntu 12.04

What is swap? Swap space is the area on a hard disk which is part of the Virtual Memory of your machine, which is a combination of accessible physical memory (RAM) and the swap space. Swap space temporarily holds memory pages that are inactive. Swap space is used when your system decides that it needs […]

How to install and configure csf on CentOS

Install and configure csf on CentOS the following steps as root user 1: Downloading csf package. rm -fv csf.tgz wget http://www.configserver.com/free/csf.tgz 2: Remove already installed firewall settings Execute the following command to remove already installed firewall like APF (Advanced Policy Firewall) or BFD (Brute Force Detection) from server. [root@server #] sh /tmp/csf/remove_apf_bfd.sh 3: Installation [root@server #] […]

What is ELS (Easy Linux Security)

ELS stands for Easy Linux Security. ELS was created by the Server Monkeys Founder, Richard Gannon. ELS takes many of the tasks performed by server administrators and puts it into an easy to use program. It is released under the GNU/GPL so it is free to use. If you want to know more about this project, […]