How to use the tail command in Ubuntu Linux
About the tail command Everyone knows about the cat command alternative to the tail command , which is used to view the contents of files. But in some cases you don’t need to look at the whole file, sometimes it’s enough to look only at the end of the file. For example, when you want […]
How to Install VLC Media Player on Ubuntu / Debian Linux
About VLC VLC media player is a free, open source multimedia player developed by the non-profit organization VideoLAN. VLC supports almost all known media formats for video and audio, DVD and Video CD. The program offers video streaming from remote computers and servers without loss of quality. For more details about VLC Media Player, please […]
How To Set Up a Firewall with UFW in Ubuntu \ Debian
Introduction The Linux kernel includes the Netfilter subsystem, which is used to manipulate or decide the fate of network traffic headed into or through your server. All modern Linux firewall solutions use this system for packet filtering. UFW – Uncomplicated Firewall The default firewall configuration tool for Ubuntu is UFW. Developed to ease iptables firewall configuration, UFW […]
A simple iptables firewall script to block all ports except port 80 and give port 22 to certain ip’s
This simple script is very useful and very simple and will give you the basics of what you can do with linux iptables firewall. Make a file: Paste all the info and correct the ip addresses with you owns. Give it some permissions And run the script. Now this was tested in ubuntu 17.04 but […]