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…
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One of the easiest ways to start securing your server (and speeding it up) is to turn off unnecessary services that are usually running by default. This little script will go through and turn off those services. Please read through the script to see what it is doing and comment out (put a # in front of the line) anything that you want to keep running. Continue Reading…
