pam_tally2 module is used to lock user accounts after certain number of failed ssh login attempts made to the system. This module keeps the count of attempted accesses and too many failed attempts. pam_tally2 module comes in two parts, one is pam_tally2.so and another is pam_tally2. It is based on PAM module and can be used to examine and manipulate the counter file. It can display user login attempts counts, set counts on individual basis, unlock.....

fdisk stands (for “fixed disk or format disk“) is an most commonly used command-line based disk manipulation utility for a Linux/Unix systems. With the help of fdisk command you can view, create, resize, delete, change, copy and move partitions on a hard drive using its own user friendly text based menu driven interface. This tool is very useful in terms of creating space for new partitions, organising space for new drives, re-organising.....

In our earlier article we’ve provided instructions on Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 installation, now here in this article we are introducing a newly released LibreOffice 4.0.2 office suit for RHEL 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9/5.8, CentOS 6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.9/5.8 and Fedora 18,17,16,15,14,13,12 using LibreOffice RPM packages. LibreOffice is similar to Microsoft Office, but it has much advanced features and highly skinned user interface and it’s really a.....

Monitorix is an open source, free and most powerful lightweight tool designed to monitor system and network resources in Linux. It regularly collects system and network data and display the information in graphs using its own web interface. Monitorix allows to monitor overall system performance and also help in detecting bottlenecks, failures, unwanted long response times and other abnormal activities. It is written in Perl language and licensed under.....

Arpwatch is an open source computer software program that helps you to monitor Ethernet traffic activity (like Changing IP and MAC Addresses) on your network and maintains a database of ethernet/ip address pairings. It produces a log of noticed pairing of IP and MAC addresses information along with a timestamps, so you can carefully watch when the pairing activity appeared on the network. It also has the option to send reports via email to an network.....

Linux is one of the powerful and standard operating system which at present is growing faster and faster in computer operating system planet. It offers excellent performance and speed. Linux is very stable and reliable in terms of usage. It also provides several administrative tools and utilities that help you to manage your system effectively. Going back to 90’s Mandrake Linux was the only one in the list of distribution but today the number is.....

ImageMagick is an free open source simple software suite for any kind of image manipulation that is used for creating, editing, converting, displaying image files. It can able to read and write over 200 image files such as JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF and Photo CD image formats and it is also used for thumbnail or captcha generation. It also includes command line options for creating transparent or animated gif image formats and many more feature like resize,.....

EHCP (Easy Hosting Control Panel) is an open source and very effective Hosting Control Panel that offers you to host any websites, create ftp accounts, email accounts, sub domains and so on. Ehcp is the only first hosting control panel was written using PHP programming language and available for free. It offers all major hosting control panel features such FTP Accounts, MySQL Databases, Panel Users, Resellers, MailBox with Squirrelmail and Round Cube.....