I quickly discovered after installing SuSe Linux 10.0, that when logging in using SSH, the time between the login and password prompt was about 30 seconds. I searched online for what could be causing this and found it is a security feature within linux, so computers trying to hack in have to wait the 30 seconds before the next attempt, thus decreasing their chances of figuring out the password.I couldn't find how to decrease this 30 seconds, but did find out how to remove the delay for trusted computers....
I just learned how to set the run level today. I used to do it manually, but creating symbolic links to the startup/shutdown script in /etc/init.d. But when I tried it on my newly setup system, I couldn't get it to work. Then I found how to use the chkconfig script. This is on my SuSe 10.0 environment. I read it works on Redhat too.# chkconfig --listThis will list all services that are started up at boot time and what run level they are at.# chkconfig --level 345 mysql.server onThis will set the...
I thought this was a handy tip I came across and was able to use recently. It involves mounting an ISO image file and being able to access the files, without having to burn the image on CD. I am told this is also possible on Windows if you have the right tools. Linux has them built in.To mount the ISO image file.iso to the mount point /tmp/cd use these commands: # mkdir /tmp/cd# mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso /tmp/cdYou can access the files on the image by:# cd /tmp/cdFrom here you can list the...
