Start in Linux server management with DigitalOcean

Linux server management is extremely broad, and it is demanded by many companies in recent times, The director of the server is the person responsible for follow-up all his affairs from the ground up and has a wide range of disciplines, it would be good for you as a user to learn a few basic things about managing Linux servers, and today you will learn about DigitalOcean company.

DigitalOcean is one of the leading companies in the field of the VPS servers running Linux, the company offers a lot of features at a bargain price too - just $ 5 a month - as well as the quality of the service, some features include :

Traffic 1 terabyte per month.
20 GB SSD type of space, which means more speed.
512 megabytes of random access memory RAM.
Possibility to install most Linux distributions with a push of a button.
Possibility to make backups and recovery process easily.
Easy and practical control Panel to help to help you with your business.
Many other features.

You can register in DigitalOcean from the following link, once you register, you'll get a free $ 10 credited, is it sufficient for two months in case you choose the first plan.

Also one of the interesting features of DigitalOcean is the presence of a large amount of documentation about Linux server management, you can review all these documents from the following link: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials 

Have you tried DigitalOcean ? How was your experience ?

     

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iScanner, scans and removes Malicious code from your Linux web servers

iScanner is an application that detects and removes malicious codes Linux/Unix server easily and automatically, without any intervention.

This tool is writing by iSecur1ty community using Ruby programming language.

iScanner detects more than 25 species of harmful files that may infect servers, making it easier for managers to discover them.

iScanner is completely free and open source and it's licensed under the terms of GNU General Public License 3.0 (GPL 3).

It stills in the trial version and you can download the new version from here , or to see the source code from here .

     

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How to change date and time in Linux

It's easy to change Time and Date in Linux, You can use Gui for that, but some Desktop environments do not have a Gui to change time and date, and Servers have no Gui at all.

So we need a command line for that :D
Remember : It's easier with The command Line :)

1- To change Date and Time :

First we have to use root privileges.

and one command such as this :

Or that one :

Oct stands for October.
2006 = a year.
18:00:00 = 18 hours
                   00 Minutes
                   00 Seconds

To make it short and very easy we can use this command :

%Y stands for the year.
%m stands for the month.
%d stands for the day.

So we will put the year first : 2008.
and month : 11.
and day : 28.

Example : 

We would like to change our date  to 2014, month May, and day 2.

date +%Y%m%d -s 20140502

2 - To change Time only :

Type this command with your modification of the time :

10 : Hours.
13 : Minutes.
13 : Seconds.

Note : # sign is not part of the commands, It indicates only that we are signed to terminal as root.

     

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