ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) describes best-practices for IT service management (ITSM), focusing on aligning IT services with the needs of business and how to support underlying business processes. ITIL aims to assist individuals…
DEBUGFS Command – Show File Creation Times in Linux
In Unix-like systems such as Linux, everything is considered a file, and all information about a file (metadata or file attributes such as creation time, last modification etc..), except the actual file content are…
How to Install ionCube Loader in CentOS 7
ionCube is a commercial software suite consisting of a PHP encoder, package foundry, bundler, a real time site intrusion detection and error reporting application as well as a loader. PHP encoder is an application…
LibreNMS – A Fully Featured Network Monitoring Tool for Linux
LibreNMS is an open source, powerful and feature-rich auto-discovering PHP based network monitoring system which uses the SNMP protocol. It supports a broad range of operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, as well as network…
Kurly – An Alternative to Most Widely Used Curl Program
Kurly is a free open source, simple but effective, cross-platform alternative to the popular curl command-line tool. It is written in Go programming language and works in the same way as curl but only…
3 Command Line Tools to Install Local Debian (.DEB) Packages
In this tutorial we will learn how to install local software packages (.DEB) in Debian and its derivatives such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint using three different command line tools and they are dpkg,…
Linux Fun – How to Create ASCII Text Banners in Terminal
Recently, we have explained about how to randomly display predefined ASCII art on the Linux terminal, using a program called ASCII-Art-Splash-Screen. In this article, we will show how to create your own appealing ASCII…
How to Synchronize Time with NTP in Linux
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol used to synchronize computer system clock automatically over a networks. The machine can have the system clock use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) rather than local time….
Linux sdiff Command Examples for Linux Newbies
In one of our earlier article, we have explained about 9 best file comparison and difference (Diff) tools for Linux systems. We listed a mixture of command-line and GUI tools for comparing and finding…
How to Configure Network Bonding or Teaming in Ubuntu
Network Interface Bonding is a mechanism used in Linux servers which consists of binding more physical network interfaces in order to provide more bandwidth than a single interface can provide or provide link redundancy…