Screen is billed as a “full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells)” (from the man page). Linux admins use screen for different purposes, but the most common is the ability to run long processes on remote servers – with the ability to disconnect, then reconnect later to see how things are going. Continue Reading…
As the CentOS folks are working on releasing a final version of CentOS 7, you can get in on the action and download their nightly builds. We’re estimating (guessing? Based on previous wait times after RH releases) that the final release will be available any time from today to the 4th of July.
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Some time in your life you’ll run across an Apache server that always has tons of TIME_WAIT connections just seeming to hang out. While these don’t take up as many resources as an ESTABLISHED connection, why keep them around so long? This short article will show you how to identify how many you have, and how to tell your server to reduce them, reuse and recycle them (see, recycling IS a good thing).
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One of the things that WHM/cPanel servers have on by default is directory listing. This is something you don’t want – but it’s easy to fix!
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