7 ‘dmesg’ Commands for Troubleshooting and Collecting Information of Linux Systems

The ‘dmesg‘ command displays the messages from the kernel ring buffer. A system passes multiple runlevel from where we can get lot of information like system architecture, cpu, attached device,... Read more

Securely Accessing Your VPS

This post is all about Securely Accessing your VPS. There are many different methods to access your VPS. Some are more secure than others. We will go over some of... Read more

27 ‘DNF’ (Fork of Yum) Commands for RPM Package Management in Linux

DNF aka Dandified YUM is a next generation Package Manager for RPM based Distribution. It was first introduced in Fedora 18 and it has replaced YUM utility in recent release of... Read more

How to Remove Packages with Dependencies Using Yum

Normally, removing a package using YUM package management system will remove that package together with its dependencies. However, certain dependencies will not be removed on the system, these are what... Read more

What Actually “rm -rf” Command Do in Linux?

The rm command is a UNIX and Linux command line utility for removing files or directories on a Linux system. In this article, we will clearly explain what actually “rm... Read more

How to Rename File While Downloading with Wget in Linux

Wget utility is a popular and feature-rich command-line based file downloader for Unix-like operating systems and Windows OS. It supports non-interactive downloading of files over protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS,... Read more

Learn Why ‘less’ is Faster Than ‘more’ Command for Effective File Navigation

More is a *nix command line used to display the contents of a file in a console. The basic usage of more command is to run the command against a... Read more

Upgrading Bash for the Shellshock Vulnerability

Upgrading Bash for the Shellshock Vulnerability Shellshock, or Bashdoor, is a vulnerability that was discovered on September 12th, 2014 and embargoed until September 24th when it was assigned the CVE... Read more

Protecting Your Linode with TCP Wrappers

Protecting Your Linode with TCP Wrappers TCP wrappers are a host-based access control system. They are used to prevent unauthorized access to your server by allowing only specific clients access... Read more

Setup OpenVPN on CentOS 6

In this tutorial we will show you how to install Open VPN on a CentOS 6 VPS Server. OpenVPN is an open source VPN Server that can be used for... Read more