Unix

Tired of typing long path names? Me too. I have a very good solution that will save you time and energy. Type less, be...

This tutorial covers crossdev and distcc that allow users to cross compile across several networked computers on Gentoo. I used it on an Intel Celeron...

Some people like to play with FreeBSD and to use it like a desktop operating system. Normally, FreeBSD is a text mode server OS...

"cat" is one of the commands that is used mostly in our everyday activities, so far as the terminal is concerned. It is mostly...

We have already shown you how to install and monitor network interface bandwidth usage using vnStat in our previous article. Since vnStat command is...

There are many tools available to monitor our network bandwidth usage at a particular date and time. Those tools will collect and send the...

Most often we do install software from the terminal by the help of  apt-get, rpm, yum, Ubuntu Software Center (GUI) and other forms on...

find command is used for locate files in a directory hierarchy on Linux/Unix systems. You can search for files according to name, owner, group, type, permissions,...

There are a lot ways to take screenshot in Linux. scrot is a very useful command-line tool for taking screenshots. scrot is pre-installed in most...

The "top" command provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of processes or...

Have you ever wondered if there is a simple way to copy files and run commands on multiple machines from one command? Well there are...

Tripwire is an open-source security and data integrity tool useful for monitoring and alerting on specific file change(s) on a range of systems. If any...

SSHGuard is a fast and lightweight monitoring tool written in C language. It monitors and protects servers  from brute force attacks using their logging...

ClusterSSH is a Cluster administration tool via SSH. It is used to control number of xterm windows via a single graphical console window to allow commands...

The Raspberry Pi is a great device with many possibilities and one such great use is as a NAS server for your LAN. The Raspberry...

We recently published article about how to determine your computer's architecture via GUI. Today am going to show how to do the same thing...

rsnapshot is a filsystem snapshot utility written in Perl. It is a remote backup utility used to take single or multiple backup of filesystems...

A dictionary is a container that stores Python objects and each item  of the dictionary consist of a key and value. Python dictionaries are...