Create a Virtual IP Address in Linux
This post will detail how to set ip a virtual IP address and assign an interface to handle the traffic in the Linux OS. This may not work for all Linux distros but it should be accurate for most. Run...
View ArticleHow to change a linux login password
It’s easy to change your password in linux – don’t bother with the GUI’s which ship with distros such as Ubuntu, just hit the command line! To change a linux users password, just type passwd and enter...
View Articleiptables cheat sheet
Here are a few handy commands for using iptables. They are tailored for an OpenVZ container with a venet network interface but can easily be adapted to use your interface by replacing venet0 with your...
View ArticleCreate a permanent virtual IP address in Linux
In a previous post, we saw how to create a virtual IP address, based on an existing network interface. The trouble with this method is that the virtual IP address will vanish when you reboot your...
View ArticleTest Internet Speed from the Command Line
Matt Martez has kindly created and shared a Python script for interacting with speedtest.net for testing bandwidth to the internet from the command line. This is a great script which only has the...
View ArticleInstalling the OpenVZ Web Panel
There are many web front ends to the OpenVZ virtualisation server which offer varying functionality and are at different stages of development. Take a look at the OpenVZ Control Panels wiki page for a...
View ArticleBash Command to Check Container Disk Space in Proxmox/ OpenVZ
Keeping an eye on all of your containers disk space can be time consuming if done one by one. Luckily, the vzlist command gives us access to many of the data and counters associated with each...
View ArticleDownload Oracle Java From The Terminal With wget
Oracle have a very restrictive license that applies to most of their software downloads which prohibits you from distributing the binaries yourself. What this means, for example, is that you could not...
View ArticleStart Ubuntu Without Starting The Gnome Desktop (text mode)
If you’ve installed a desktop, such as Gnome, on Linux you may not need it all the time. Some of the time taken to boot your machine when you first turn it on is used by loading the GUI and everything...
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