Linux Shtuff

If you work on multiple remote linux servers then you may need to download multiple files. The utility which is used to download files from the command line is called wget. In order to download a file from the command line using the wget command we would use the following command; wget URL replace ‘URL’…

Slurm is a network monitoring tool which lets you monitor the traffic on your network interfaces. This traffic monitoring and analysis tool is in many situations particularly good if you are performing analysis. It is a real-time, command line utility so it comes in handy for those who work on remote Linux servers and have…

From http://www.addictivetips.com You might have heard about the well known command line utility called FFMPG which converts videos from one format to another. If you are a developer or system administrator and you develop or administer Linux based apps then you probably know how complex it is to work with the command line utility to…

From http://www.addictivetips.com If you are an geeky user who keeps installing various software and updates then with the passage of time you will feel that your system is messed up. Ubucleaner is a shell script which lets you clean your Ubuntu system by removing the following: * apt cache * Config file for Uninstalled .deb…

Byobu is a Japanese term for decorative, multi-panel screens that serve as folding room dividers. As an open source project, Byobu is an elegant enhancement of the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen. Byobu includes an enhanced profile and configuration utilities for the GNU screen window manager, such as toggle-able system status notifications. In ubuntu…

CPanel Tomcat PDF The latest Tomcat version supported in cPanel/WHM is v5.5.27 and can be installed safely using EasyApache. To install tomcat in WHM 11.25, you will need to run /scripts/easyapache and once complete, access it from the tomcat manager or admin control panel. Once easy apache completes, you will need to go to http://localhost:8080/manage…

Earlier today, Bill logged into his cpanel account to check on a few things before heading to work. Little did he know, little Jimmie was secretly watching porn late last night and visited a site which infected the family PC with a keylogger and a few trojans. The system hung and little Jimmie did what…

From http://www.kabatology.com sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a This simple command can reinstall all of Ubuntu’s distribution packages and reconfigure them. If you ever find it necessary to reinstall Ubuntu, first backup your data then drop this line of code unto the command-line. It takes about an hour for the whole process to get to an end,…

From http://www.linusol.com/ What is Run Level? Linux has 7 different run levels; Each mode has it’s own list of settings for what services to start and what services to shutdown. Not only does this list contain what is supposed to be running, but also what order each service should be started in – a feature…

Installing TTF font in CentOS is very easy. You will need root access. To install, follow these simple commands; 1) check if directory /usr/share/fonts/TTF exists, if it does not exist, create it. mkdir /usr/share/fonts/TTF copy any *.TTF file font you want to install to /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ directory then run the command: /sbin/service xfs reload