51 Useful Lesser Known Commands for Linux Users

Linux command line is attractive and fascinating, and there exists a flock of Linux user who are addictive to command Line. Linux command line can be funny and amusing, if... Read more

How to Recover a Deleted File in Linux

Did this ever happen to you? You realized that you had mistakenly deleted a file – either through the Del key, or using rm in the command line. In the... Read more

tuptime – Shows Historical and Statistical Running Time of Linux Systems

System Administration involves many activities one of which is monitoring and checking for how long your Linux system has been running. It is always a good idea to keep track... Read more

20 Advanced Commands for Middle Level Linux Users

You might have found the first article very much useful, this article is an extension of the 20 Useful Commands for Linux Newbies. The first article was intended for newbies... Read more

How to Find MySQL, PHP and Apache Configuration Files

In this post, we will learn a number of commands for locating the default configuration files for MySQL database server (my.conf), PHP programming language (php.ini) and Apache HTTP server (http.conf),... Read more

Manage Files Effectively using head, tail and cat Commands in Linux

There are several commands and programs provided by Linux for viewing the contents of file. Working with files is one of the daunting task, most of the computer users be... Read more

A Basic Guide to Linux Boot Process

As promised in our earlier post, in this post we are going to review boot process in Linux Operating System. How Operating system passes through different stage of booting states.... Read more

A Guide to Kill, Pkill and Killall Commands to Terminate a Process in Linux

Linux Operating System comes with Kill command to terminate a process. The command makes it possible to continue running the server without the need of reboot after a major change/update.... Read more

How to Send a Message to Logged Users in Linux Terminal

How can I send a messages to logged on users in a Linux server? If you are asking this question, then this guide will help you learn how to do... Read more

How to Restrict SFTP Users to Home Directories Using chroot Jail

In this tutorial, we will be discussing how to restrict SFTP users to their home directories or specific directories. It means the user can only access his/her respective home directory,... Read more