How to display the process in Linux System

September 22nd, 2009 There are certain programs in Linux for which the source is not readily available. There is an useful diagnostic, instructional, and debugging tool for Linux to solve it.

November 5th, 2008 vi / vim as well as nano are the most popular editors on Unix / Linux / Solaris and for hardcode Mac OSX users too. For developing / debugging we need line numbers.

September 19th, 2009 After configuring services on the network in Linux system, it's important for you to keep tabs on the ports that are actually listening on the system's network interfaces. This is all more important because open ports are evidence of an intrusion.

June 3rd, 2007 Linux comes with automatic setup for dual-monitors like windows. However I found the gnome applet rather buggy and unusable.

January 2nd, 2009 There is a very useful but rarely used command in Linux, watch. While those of you who know about it are surely aware of all the easy works it does for you, I want to tell it to them who didn't know about it.

September 17th, 2009 For any Linux user monitoring the system's performance can be an intricate task. Most of the Linux distributions already come with loads of monitoring tools.

August 28th, 2009 We often come across a lot of inquires on Linux systems. One of the most commonly asked questions is how to find the hardware specs /details on Linux.

September 17th, 2009 Out of many Linux monitoring tools there's a one cool one that allows you to know who is logged on the system and what they are doing. It shows current time, the time for which the system had been running, number of users currently logged on.

September 21st, 2008 CodeWeaver's released a port of Google's Chrome browser (review) for Linux. CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Chromium web browser.

September 23rd, 2008 You may run Java processes in the foreground or in many cases they may be run using cron jobs or during system startup, as background processes. How can you find out stacktraces of any running Java process? But first how can you even know their name & process id's? How to find process id (pid) of all running Java processes? The following command displays list of all running Java processes in your machine - $JAVA_HOME/bin/jps Note the process id of the process you want to get stacktrace as you will need it in the next step.

October 20th, 2007 While configuring your routing (like load balancing with dual ADSL connections) you would often need to view the current route cache and also to occasionally delete the current cache. Here is how you can do it.

September 18th, 2009 Do you wanna know how long the server has been running? It requires just a simple command to monitor the time for which the Linux system has been running. With a single command you can not only know about the uptime, but also the number of users that have currently logged on and the system load averages for the past 1, 5 and 15 minutes.

October 9th, 2009 CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is built from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code. Other than logo and name changes CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is compatible with the equivalent Red Hat version.

April 6th, 2008 How to overwrite your hard disk with random characters dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda How to overwrite your hard disk with zero characters dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda Replace sda / hda with your hard disk identifier. Either of the procedure requires the system has Linux installed or accessible from Linux operating system.

April 5th, 2006 In an interesting press release IBM announced today that Olympus America Inc., a precision company that designs and delivers solutions in healthcare and consumer electronics worldwide, has increased the performance of its Web services three times by supplementing its current environment with Linux on IBM's "all-in-one" System i business computing solution. I am not surprised.