The default login password prompt interval is 60 seconds in CentOS. CentOS login screen You can adjust this value by modifying the LOGIN_TIMEOUT value in the file /etc/login.defs. LOGIN_TIMEOUT (number)Max time in seconds for login. login.defs man page Just edit the…
Exporting a database can be done very easily from phpMyAdmin/ from your web hosting control panel (cPanel, DirectAdmin, VestaCP etc). But you can also export databases from the command line with the mysqldump utility. With mysqldump you can export a…
Vi is a text editor that comes preinstalled on CentOS distributions. Anyway, the Vi version that is installed is vim-minimal. You can check which version you have with the vi --version command: root@www [/]# vi --version VIM - Vi IMproved…
nano is a very used text editor for CentOS and other Unix distributions. In this article, we will show to remove it from your server. First, let's check if it is installed: root@www [/]# nano --version GNU nano version 2.3.1…
There are two messages you can set in the sshd configuration. One is MOTD (message of the day) and the other one is the Banner. Banner Message The Banner message is displayed before the password login prompt. To edit/set the…
Many times you may need to now the operating system information. We will discuss some useful commands. We will focus on commands that work on RedHat/CentOS installations, as these are the most used OSs in the web hosting industry. 1.1.…