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Now a days more people are using dropbox for backup in linux servers. Dropbox is a great product which has their client in all major platforms. So this is really ideal for using in linux servers too.

Dropbox runs dropboxd daemon in the server to check for updates and syncing the contents between its clients across different platforms. Sometimes this daemon will get killed and our backup process will be in jeopardy.

We have seen how to remove a particular IP from the iptables rule. Now what if we want to remove all the iptables rule?

We can use the below command to remove all iptables rule.

I want to remove a rule from iptables which used to block one of the IPs to and from the server. How can I remove it? We will find it below.

IP which is blocked: 123.456.78.90


This will basically cut off all the tcp communication from and to my server for the IP 123.456.78.90

In the latest version of Ubuntu, the go language tools may be already available in the repos. In that case try,

   sudo apt-get install golang

If it is not working, add go tools PPA and install it.

Go is a language developed at google. The golang programs are generally having the extension '.go'.

So this is how we run a golang program.