Bash Prompt Screwing up readline

Have you ever customized your bash prompt to something more personal. Well I have, and it is one of the first things I do on a new machine. I love having my...

Customizing screen for Efficiency


Now that you now the basics of screen I’m going to talk about efficiency. In my humble opinion the default key binding of screen are inefficient, that’s why...

The Basics of screen


The word efficiency can mean different things for different people. When it comes to Linux and UNIX type operating systems, efficiency means proficient use of the...

It seems to me that the bootloader isn't correctly installed. How exactly did you install the bootloader, using bootinst.bat, bootinst.sh or some other way? So let me get this straight when you boot...

Changing how the hostname is set

Playing around with the current stable release of BackTrack 3 I noticed peculiar behavior. The current way the hostname is set, is in my opinion is flawed....

Building a VMware 6.0 Drivers Module Guide



VMware is a great tool if you need to use Linux but don’t want to reboot you’re system. It’s even better when you want to test multiple...

Here are some guides on getting Linux to boot on a Mac: mactel-linux.org/wiki/HOWTO

I'm sorry to say but booting Linux USB thumb drives on a Mac is very problematic. The best way to boot you thumb drive is using a BackTrack cd and using the from= kernel parameter. You could install...

Actually I'm aware of that :D I just wanted to show how it should have been from the start. The files in /etc/dhcpc/ directory shouldn't have been there in the first place. But you are right about my...

Changing the hostname permanently

Changing the hostname usually is a trivial task on most Linux OSes. Normally you just change /etc/hostname file to reflect the hostname you want to have. In...

Actually the changes kernel parameter is used by the Linux Live scripts(liblinuxlive). If you wanted you can add you own kernel parameters. If you check /proc/cmdline you can see all the parameters...

The Linux Live scripts and boot process

The liblinuxlive script is the brain child of the creator of Slax and it is the actual work horse of the system’s modularity. It is both used in boot...

<changes_location> can be several types of paths, it can be a file(loop file to be exact with a filesystem), a directory or a device. Paths can be specified using the /dev/XXX/Some/Path convention,...

BackTrack – Internals

BackTrack Roots

BackTrack is a great Linux distribution tailored specifically for penetration testing, security auditing, reverse engineering, and much more. This...

Hi there, I don't know if anybody else has been having problems that I've been having, but anyways here's the solution to my problem. Now I'm new to the BackTrack Linux distribution, but have been...