The article examines a cryptocurrency mining trojan (sample 101), detailing its process list, malicious startup scripts, SSH key injection, service deployment, removal steps, and offers practical defense measures against such malware infections.
A MySQL fatal error citing Errcode 28 can stem from inode exhaustion caused by a flood of cron-generated emails, not just lack of disk space, and the article walks through diagnosing the issue with df, df -i, and locating the offending Postfix maildrop directory.
A Linux server became unreachable with a massive load average of 360 due to exhausted inodes caused by a runaway postdrop process, and the issue was resolved by cleaning the maildrop directory and silencing the offending cron job.
This guide explains how to automatically rotate Nginx logs each day by renaming the current log file at midnight, creating dated backup directories, and signaling the Nginx master process with USR1 using a simple Bash script scheduled via a cron job.
nmon is a lightweight Linux tool that collects and displays real‑time CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics on a single screen, offers background data collection with customizable intervals, and generates analysis files that can be visualized using nmon_analyser for detailed performance reporting.
This guide explains how to achieve second‑level scheduling on Linux by combining a minute‑based crontab entry with a custom Bash script that loops and uses sleep, including a PHP test task example and step‑by‑step setup instructions.
This article demonstrates how cron jobs can overlap when a script runs longer than its schedule, and shows how to use Linux's flock file lock to ensure only one instance of the script runs at a time, preventing execution conflicts.
This guide explains how logrotate automatically truncates, compresses, and removes old log files, covering installation on major Linux distributions, essential configuration options, practical examples, and troubleshooting techniques to keep server storage under control.
This article outlines a systematic approach for ops teams to assess whether a low‑utilization server is still needed by checking user logins, running services, network connections, cron jobs, and file storage—including specific commands for MySQL and PostgreSQL data inspection—to avoid accidental data loss during reclamation.
This guide walks you through Linux's task‑scheduling tools—at, batch, crontab, and anacron—covering one‑time and periodic job setup, command syntax, permission files, and practical examples to automate system administration tasks.
This guide explains how to use Linux's local mail service and the at, batch, and cron commands to create, list, modify, and delete one‑time and recurring scheduled tasks, including command syntax, examples, and troubleshooting tips.
This guide explains what the Linux cron service is, how to configure it via /var/spool/cron and /etc/crontab, the syntax of cron expressions, environment variables, and provides practical examples for scheduling recurring tasks.
This guide walks you through creating a Linux shell script that uses mysqldump to back up a MySQL database, organizing old backups, setting execution permissions, and scheduling the process with cron for reliable, automated daily backups.
