Linux Tips: Bandwidth Monitoring, Common Commands, Accounting

October 10th, 2008 Most techies and developer prefer using the terminal on Linux. If you are like me a heavy command line interface (cli) user than you will find these simple tips useful.

January 29th, 2009 Covering the most popular Linux shells (such as bash, ash, tcsh, ksh, korn, and zsh), this reference book shows how to use commands to create scripts within each shell and demonstrates practical applications for shell scripts (including retrieving information from Web sites and sending automated reports via e-mail). For each shell, the author discusses the commands available and explains how to use these commands to create scripts that can automate common functions and reports.

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.

September 3rd, 2008 Do you know that Linux automatically scales CPU utilization depending on processing requirements? This reduces power consumption and heat. However there are situations when CPU scaling monitor cannot properly identify CPU requirements.

September 23rd, 2009 For any System administrator its tough to monitor large Linux networks continuously without a streamlined system. Looking for an efficient network monitoring solution for Linux systems we came across Nagios.

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.

May 16th, 2007 Google AdSense allows exporting the data in CSV format, suitable for Microsoft Excel. It doesn't open in Mousepad, Gedit or even in normal spreadsheet programs under Linux.

July 22nd, 2007 I am going to describe a simple no-brainer way to share your BSNL Dataone Broadband internet connection over wireless network. The same principles can be used with other broadband connections too.

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.

November 3rd, 2008 Today I am going to tell you the trick to hack your root passoword in Linux if you are too forgetful to remember it or you have legal permission to enter a server run by a different admin and by any chance he forgot to give you the root password. Those Who Have GRUB bootloader The first step is to reboot server.

July 1st, 2007 Rapidshare is a popular site for sharing files. With free access you can only download 1 file per hour.

August 10th, 2008 nginx [engine x] is a high quality, light footprint (much ligher than Apache HTTPD), high performance HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. nginx is distributed under BSD license unlike its competitor Lighttpd.

October 14th, 2007 Autoexec.bat is a legacy file in Windows which is executed every time you start Windows. Commands you want to run with startup of windows, and applicable to all users, are added to autoexec.bat.

April 5th, 2008 A common error while configuring (running ./configure) software in Linux systems is - error: C++ compiler cannot create executables. The solution, not surprisingly is simple: Install the package which adds C++ support to the GNU Compiler Collection - gcc-c++.

March 13th, 2009 Annoyed with heap of file which are consuming space in your trash bin and you can not do a thing about it? Every time you try to delete it from there, permissions violation errors generate. So what do you do? Will you keep it there ignoring anything? Well, I haave a solution for you.