Category: Linux

No login screen after uninstalling Unity with lightdm

Today out of curiosity I tried installed Unity on Ubuntu 20.04 and after uninstalling it, on rebooting blank screen appeared rather than Ubuntu 20.04 login screen: The black screen appears because the Ubuntu boot process defaults to tty7, the terminal where the graphical login (lightdm) would normally be running. To get to a login prompt,

Read more

How can I tell if Apache is experiencing a DDoS attack?

If Apache is experiencing a DDoS attack, you may notice errors like these in the Apache error log: You can check whether Apache is experiencing a DDoS attack with this command, which shows the top 10 IP addresses from which Apache is receiving connections: If you notice a large number of connections from an unrecognized

Read more