How to Create a Multi Part Tar File with Linux
This guide will explain how to split a large file into multi-part .tar files, and how to put them back together again. …
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Guide to Using YUM on Fedora Linux
This guide will take you step by step through the process of installing, setting up and using YUM on your Fedora Linux based computer. …
How to Compress, Move, and Extract a Directory in Linux
The other day I needed to migrate a directory containing a lot of files from one location on my Linux server to another. There are a number of ways I could do this. Using a simple cp command could have done the trick. However, as the data I was copying was a database and I wanted to make sure that the copying was done perfectly, I looked on the Internet and found a brilliant one line bash solution for this. …
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How to Stop an SSH Session From Disconnecting in Linux
This guide will show you how to edit the SSH daemon config file to stop the server from disconnecting your sessions when you’re idle. …
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How to Block DDOS Attacks in Linux
This guide for Linux users will show you how to detect the IP addresses that are used in denial of service attacks and block them. …
How to Block an IP Address in IPTables in Linux
This tutorial will show you how to block an IP address from accessing your Linux machine using the built in firewall IPTables. …
How to monitor your Linux machine with netstat
This guide will explain how to use the command netstat to monitor your Internet and network connections in Linux. …
How to Determine Your Free Disk Space in Linux
This guide will show you how to determine your free disk space Linux using a series of commands that come with all Linux distributions. …
An introduction to the sudo command and configuration file
This guide will explain what the sudo command is, how to use it in Linux, and how to edit its configuration file. …
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How to Set the Date on Your Linux Machine
This guide will show you how to use the date command to set the date of your Linux machine and how to set the date by syncing it across the Internet. …
How to Run Processes in the Background Using nohup in Linux
This guide will show you how to use the command ‘nohup’ to run processes in the background, so that they keep running even if you log out or get disconnected. …
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An Introduction to the Linux ‘date’ Command
This guide will show you how to get started using the “more helpful than you might have guessed” date command in Linux. …
Get Started Using the ‘find’ Command in Linux
This brief but detailed guide will help get you started using the “find” command in Linux and provide helpful real-world examples. …
Getting Started with iptables in Linux
This detailed tutorial will get you started using iptables, the tried, trusted and true firewall, in Linux. …
How to Create Automated Linux/Unix backups
This guide will take you step by step through the process of creating automated backups in Linux (and most *nix Operating Systems). …