Last week we went to a church seminar led by a renowned doctor who specializes in health. She said in all her years of work she has seen thousands of X-rays but she is yet to see a big boned woman. So if you have watched the scale go up, don’t go telling your friends big bones run in your family, instead join the rest of us as we try to hit gym regularly and try to eat healthier foods. It might mean fries once a month instead of four times a week but in the end you will have fewer trips to the doc.
A day in the life of an Admin
So today I thought of securing my ssh server and got some tips here. Then somehow I ended up locking myself out of ssh connection for a whole day. After adding this rule -change ip to suit your setup
ListenAddress 192.168.1.10
I got ssh errors connecting to 127.0.0.1 this was solved by adding another rule below it like so
ListenAddress 127.0.0.1
Do the same for hosts.allow
sshd: 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0
sshd:127.0.0.1
This should sought out any connection problems you get. I will look at the logs and see how it looks now I will be able to rest easier knowing then script kiddes won’t get in so easily.
Got my backup in place
After two crashes this time am making sure I have my backup in place before I add anything to the website. I settled on Ping 2.01 to make backup images for the server no more install from scratch. The funny thing is that i have been advising people on the importance of this yet i never got to do it myself. But after starting over for the second time am making sure i have restore disks for all the machines in the house both windows and linux.