Security updates, as most of you would agree, are very important. Under Linux it is always advisable to keep the installed packages up to date, especially when it comes to security. In general, users should apply security updates to their Linux systems within 30 days of the release. In this article, you are going to … Read more
Htop is very interactive, gives you additional information about running processes, and allows for manipulations such as sorting the list of processes using various criteria and search for a process/kill processes. While top command takes few seconds delay to collect data where htop is much faster. In this tutorial, I will show you how to … Read more
ifconfig is a command-line utility to view network interfaces attached to Linux machines and network information such as IP address(es), netmask, etc.. assigned to network interfaces. Also, it displays the count of sent and received network packets along with counts of error and dropped packets. Do you get ‘Ifconfig‘ Command Not Found in your RHEL … Read more
MySQL is the most popular open-source relational database management system. MySQL was initially developed by MYSQL AB, now owned by Oracle Corporation. It was the primary database application on Linux until MariaDB, a fork of MySQL, came into the picture. The latest MySQL 8.0 version is available to install from the default AppStream repository using … Read more
SELinux, also known as Security-Enhanced Linux, is a security feature embedded in the Linux kernel. SELinux leverages Mandatory Access controls (MAC) to confine users to certain rules and policies and prevents them from performing unauthorized tasks on the Linux system as specified by the IT administrator. SELinux comes in 3 different modes: Enforcing – This … Read more
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful package management system used by Red Hat Linux and its derivatives such as CentOS and Fedora. RPM also refers to the rpm command and .rpm file format. The official CentOS repositories contain thousands of RPM packages that can be installed using the yum or dmf; command-line utility. … Read more
The FSCK is a system utility. It is a tool that is used to check the consistency of a file system in the Unix-like operating systems. It is a tool that will check and repair inconsistencies in Unix-like systems including Linux. The tool can be used with the help of ‘fsck’ command in Linux. This … Read more
Linux Operating System comes with kill command to terminate a process. The command makes it possible to continue running the server without the need to reboot after a major change/update. Here comes the great power of Linux and this is one of the reasons, why Linux is running on 90% of servers, on the planet. … Read more
Pip (recursive acronym for “Pip Installs Packages” or “Pip Installs Python“) is the package management system for Python, used to install and manage software packages written in Python. Pip is the similar tool like the bundle, npm, composer in another programming language. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Python Pip on … Read more
Rsync (Remote Sync) is a most commonly used command for copying and synchronizing files and directories remotely as well as locally in Linux/Unix systems. It provides fast incremental file transfer by transferring only the differences between the source and the destination. Rsync can be used for mirroring data, incremental backups, copying files between systems and … Read more