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Setting up my MOTD on a Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS

Some of my servers have a fancy motd…
I like them… unfortunately my new server didn’t had it.

I had to run

apt-get install landscape-common
dpkg-reconfigure landscape-common

On dkpg-reconfigure I’v selected Run sysinfo on every login.

Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-63-generic x86_64)

* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
You have new mail.
Last login: Fri Oct 23 10:28:37 2015 from es2-84-XXX-XXX-XXX.netvisao.pt

System information as of Fri Oct 23 10:28:59 CEST 2015

System load: 0.06 Processes: 245
Usage of /: 81.9% of 411.33GB Users logged in: 1
Memory usage: 9% IP address for em0: 195.154.XXX.XXX
Swap usage: 0%

Graph this data and manage this system at:
https://landscape.canonical.com/
pjrfigueiredo@sd-48392:~$

To have the number of updates/security updates we need to run the following apt-get command….

sudo apt-get install update-notifier-common

This way we will see also

20 packages can be updated.
8 updates are security updates.

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A bunch of security tools for Ubuntu

 

 

Ubuntu CIS Benchmark

This document provides prescriptive guidance for establishing a secure configuration posture for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server. To obtain the latest version of this guide, please visit http://benchmarks.cisecurity.org. If you have questions, comments, or have identified ways to improve this guide, please write us at [email protected].

https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/tools2/ubuntu/CIS_Ubuntu_12.04_LTS_Server_Benchmark_v1.0.0.pdf

Apache CIS Benchmark

This document, CIS Apache 2.4 Benchmark, provides prescriptive guidance for establishing a secure configuration posture for Apache Web Server versions 2.4 running on Linux. This guide was tested against Apache Web Server 2.4.3 – 2.4.6 as built from source httpd-2.4.x.tar.gz from http://httpd.apache.org/ on Linux. To obtain the latest version of this guide, please visit http://benchmarks.cisecurity.org. If you have questions, comments, or have identified ways to improve this guide, please write us at [email protected].

https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/tools2/apache/CIS_Apache_HTTP_Server_2.4_Benchmark_v1.1.0.pdf
Got it from http://askubuntu.com/questions/447144/basic-security-tools-and-packages-that-should-be-installed-on-a-public-facing-we

 

server_names_hash, you should increase server_names_hash_bucket_size

I was trying to start fresh installation of nginx, but nginx wasn’t staring….

We must always read the logs!

root@pornrack:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled# tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log

This was I was getting on it…

2013/11/17 10:56:34 [emerg] 12362#0: could not build the server_names_hash, you should increase server_names_hash_bucket_size: 32

Easy! I searched for server_names_hash_bucket_size on  /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and uncommented that line…

 

Unknown encoder ‘libx264’

On my stack, on digitalocean, i have Ubuntu (13, and i’m deploying a small work that need avconv (former ffmpeg).

I need to convert from WMV to MP4 files and i was getting Unknown encoder ‘libx264’ error.

This is how i’v added video encoder libx264 to my avcodec.

apt-get update
apt-get install libavcodec-extra-53

Tested on
Ubuntu 13.04 (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64)
Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x86_64)

Tried to share it!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11234662/how-to-compile-avconv-with-libx264-on-ubuntu-12-04/18835133#18835133

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