Well, thankfully this is rather trivial task for Linux and you can change MAC address of your network adapter using a few CLI/console commands. Honestly speaking it is impossible to literally change MAC address as it’s loaded into firmware but you can configure Linux so it will transform old MAC to the new one the fly. The commands are are below but before typing them let’s consider why one might [...]
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Checkinstall is extremely useful utility to create .deb packages for Debian, Ubuntu (or .rpm packages for Fedora, RedHat, CentOs) from .tar.gz (or .tgz) source tarball after it’s compiled at your Linux box. In other words you can prepare binary package for later usage without need to compile software from sources every time you need to get it installed on certain Linux box. Another application of checkinstall is software deinstallation that [...]
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Question: How can I get my Linux server rebooted/restarted automatically if it caught a kernel panic? Answer: As you might know, kernel panic is an action taken by an operating system upon detecting an internal fatal error from which it cannot safely recover; the term is largely specific to Unix and Unix-like systems (it’s a wiki’s description). By default Linux wouldn’t not reboot after panic occurs, but the following option [...]
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Question: How can I disable building of directory index in apache/httpd? In other words, how to prevent users from seeing the contents of published directories? Answer: Actually you are totally right that you wish to disable this feature. One of the “must do’s” on setting a secure apache web server is to disable directory browsing. Usually apache comes with this feature enabled but its always a good idea to get it [...]
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Question: I want to reset counters in /proc/net/dev (also shown in ifconfig output as RX and TX bytes) and thus I have to unload network interface driver. How to do it? Answer: There are two commands in Linux CLI coming by default which would help to unload drivers: rmmod and modprobe. First of all it is necessary to find what kernel module controls certain NIC and then unload that module. [...]
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