As I was surfing the net, trying to find a way to prototype network protocols or features in Linux. I stumbled upon PacketScript. PacketScript is the an implementation of the Lua VM inside Linux kernel. Such implementations aren’t new ,luak and lunatik have been existed for some time. However what makes PacketScript different is the ability to mangle network packets with Lua. Not just running Lua code in kernel. as a matter of fact PacketScript uses lunatik underneath as its…
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Hi everyone! In this post I’m going to introduce you to the world of linux kernel module development. I am a newcomer in this field myself but I decided to document everything in this blog as I gradually learn them. To start you need some sort of virtual machine. Of course you can test kernel modules on your own system but it is very risky and you can’t really debug them effectively and must use printk and debug messages to…
I had windows 10 installed on my laptop because of serious incompatibility of ROG laptops with Linux and my desire to play some games after years of living in bash! This continued for a year and I really like windows 10 cool features like WSL and Hyper-V (with Docker!), however being in love with rolling-release distros and being fed up with windows in the past year. And the fact that I was yearning for terminal, I installed Solus OS earlier…
Hi everyone In this post I am going to explain some essential systemd commands and concepts. As systemd popularity grew much more and changed the linux ecosystem drastically, every sysadmin, DevOps or every casual linux user should know the basics of this init system (It’s really a load of other things too!) and be able to use systemctl, journalctl, etc in order to leverage its power. For example, by using systemd unit files you can completely get rid of using…
After posting the first of my linux SysAdmin quick config sample series titled “Useful Configs for squid” (which you can read here). I decided to write another post, this time about the powerful and popular web/cache server NGINX! I spent quite some time reading through nginx official docs and other blogs/websites while testing each configuration directive in different scenarios. Some of the options presented in this post do not have good or any documentation. I hope you find them useful!…