Tag Archives: System Administrator
Quick Tricks of Bash Shell Scripting
As we mentioned in our some-bash-secrets-for-system-admins article that bash is the most popular shell in *nix world. In that article we’ve shared few secrets to faster the day-to-day system admin tasks. We have seen the demand of scripting using bash or similar kind of shells. Scripting is something which makes a normal System Administrator to a ‘true System Administrator’. It enables the automation of day-t0-day activities and saves a lot of hours only by a single commands. In this article we will try to show you few tips and tricks of shell scripting, very basics though. If you want to be a master of shell scripting, these basics are the base to help you to reach the highest level. Let’s start!!
Web Content Filtering with DansGuardian
DansGuradian is content control application to provide various kinds of web filtering. That means with Dansguardian, you can control your web services in many ways like block some urls, ipaddress, users, top level domains (.com, .net), Sub domains (porn.zz.com) etc. It also has built-in virus filtering and block functions , web site monitoring, log analysis functions. You can check log file to see what your users are doing on the internet. DansGuardain is open source software that runs in Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, etc.
