Linux Administration

I have a Dell Inspiron 5547, massive laptop with 16GB RAM and Intel i7. It also got a touchscreen. I don’t like touchscreens on laptops and I can’t remember ever using it. I usually plugin my laptop, Desktop and RaspberryPi 2 to an IOGear 4port KVM switch and use a …

My last post was about adding timestamp to terminal in Linux. But isn’t it better to simply add timestamp to history command? This enables you to open your terminal anytime, run history command and find out when you ran which command, all without keeping terminal or putty windows open indefinitely. …

I came across an issue few weeks back at work when I did some troubleshooting and ran some commands. When I was documenting it, I just couldn’t remember the exact time I started troubleshooting and issued those commands; I mean I even had putty logs saved for 9 hours of …

The sudo command offers a mechanism for providing trusted users with administrative access to a system without sharing the password of the root user. When users given access via this mechanism precede an administrative command with sudo they are prompted to enter their own password. Once authenticated, and assuming the …

I got quite a few servers where I login via SSH. As a Linux user, I feel tired typing more than few things at a time (not my fault!), so I decided to create SSH shortcuts and save it to my desktop. From then, all I needed to do is …