Security Checker – Tiger

Tiger is a security program for Unix. It scans system configuration files, file system, and user configuration files for possible security problems and reports them. Tiger was developed by Texas A&M University, 1994 , updated by the Advanced Research Corporation, 1999-2002 and further updated by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino, 2001-2005 . Tiger is covered by the GNU [...]

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Check your hardware information using ‘Hwinfo’ in Ubuntu

Description from its manual hwinfo is used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.   How to install the program? taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo apt-get install hwinfo Password: Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… [...]

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Another way to check your computer configuration in Ubuntu

CPU Specification taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 2400.238 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : [...]

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Disk space usage in Ubuntu

To check the disk space usage in Ubuntu, you can use. du estimate file space usage df report file system disk space usage   Note: -s, –summarize display only a total for each argument -h, –human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G) -c, –total produce a grand total     Check [...]

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