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Bash Shell Security Vulnerability There is an important vulnerability in the Linux operating system Bash Shell that has the potential of making your server easily accessible to hackers. By running the test command below, you can see if your bash is vulnerable to exploits. Please run both commands below as root on your server to see if your system is vulnerable. =============================== 1. Log into your server as root 2. Execute the following command: env x='() ; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test" 3. If the output is "this is a test", that means that your bash needs to be updated. Please refer to your specific OS below and update your system and bash to latest version. ============================== == and ============================== == 1. Log into your server as root 2. Execute the following command: export dummy='() ; echo "exploited"' 3. Enter the following command afterwards: bash 4. If the output is

free command The free command is the most simple and easy to use command to check memory usage on linux. Here is a quick example $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7976 6459 1517 0 865 2248 -/+ buffers/cache: 3344 4631 Swap: 1951 0 1951 The m option displays all data in MBs. The total os 7976 MB is the total amount of RAM installed on the system, that is 8GB. The used column shows the amount of RAM that has been used by linux, in this case around 6.4 GB. The output is pretty self explanatory. The catch over here is the cached and buffers column. The second line tells that 4.6 GB is free. This is the free memory in first line added with the buffers and cached amount of memory. Linux has the habit of caching lots of things for faster performance, so that memory can be freed and used if needed. The last line is the swap memory, which in this ca

First you need to stop mysql service: / etc / init . d / mysqld stop    Now Start mysql in safemode: mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables    Login as root:   mysql --user=root mysql   Now run the below:   update user set Password=PASSWORD('new-password') where user='root'; flush privileges; exit;   Finally kill mysql process and start it again:   / etc / init . d / mysqld stop   / etc / init . d / mysqld start    

The question is – how do I check if mod_rewrite is enabled? If it is disabled, how to I enable it on Apache on CentOS? To enable mod_rewrite, you need to make sure that you have it as a module, and to make sure that Apache has loaded the module. And then you need to ensure that Apache is configured to make use of the .htaccess file for each directory. Follow this article and you should be able to enable mod_rewrite .

The default postgres date format is yyyy-mm-dd in case you want to insert date in the format dd/mm/yyyy you need to set the datestyle at the beginning of your insert or update query as the below: set DateStyle = 'ISO, DMY' ;

Below are some of Beesan's Creative arts, Social Responsibilities, cooking and PE. Beesan gift to dad on fathers day 2009 (Beesan was 5 y/o) Flowers pod paint, Beesan gift to her Grand dad june 2011 (Beesan was 7 y/o) Beesan taking part in demonstration in front of the Israeli Embassy to end siege on Gaza (15/5/2011) Beesan Does her homework with her own decorated pencils. (2014) Beesan Draw of her favorite Cartoon Character. (2014) Beesan taking part in planting Pentele mountain with Byron College School. (2014) Beesan playing with knox (Rottweiler). (2014) Beesan makes the cake alone with no help from anyone. She has her own recipes book. (2013)    Beesan made her own custom for the Halloween Day. (2014)  Beesan winning the race on Byron College Sport day at Deree. (2014)

The Default Page of any webserver could be index.html or home.htm or index.cfm etc. to change the homepage or the order of homepage files in Apache you need to do the following: If you are on Linux: You need to edit the httpd.conf, so search for the file # find / -type f -name httpd.conf most likely your file will be under /usr/local/apache/conf/ so edit your file: #  edit  /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf Search for the like DirectoryIndex in your file DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm default.htm index.php index.pl You may edit this line change the order ar a new homepage name like the below: DirectoryIndex home.php index.html index.htm default.htm index.php index.pl Save your work. You need to restart the apache now: # /etc/init.d/httpd restart Done!