Remote VNC via SSH

This is the SSH part where you connect to the remote system and send a local port back to you: ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 -p altsshport user@domain.com What can you do with this? You can run a service on your remote system like this: x11vnc -display :0 -localhost On newer Xubuntu systems, you might have to…

Bash one liners

Below I will post some useful Linux Bash or *ash similar command code. Some of these will seem trivial to those that know and to the rest, will hopefully be future cheat sheet material. Commands: [ctrl]-r = search bash history for entered string [ctrl]-k = delete all characters to the end of the line [ctrl]-u…

Scientific Linux 7.1 + ELK + Rivers

Are you interested in Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Rivers (JDBC+MySQL)? Then this ELK guide is for you. We are building this with Scientific Linux 7.1 and the latest versions of each available at the moment. I sourced information on how to do this from: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-4-on-centos-7 http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup-repositories.html https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Security_Guide/sec-Using_Firewalls.html https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-jdbc Install SL 7.1 Find your local mirror:…