If you are are programmer or developer then you might have felt or encountered the necessity to change time to epoch time using date utility in Linux or Unix Server. It is not very uncommon to use the epoch time in Linux or Unix friendly scripts or programs hence it is very important to understand ... Read more

In this article, I will take you through the steps to Install jq(JSON Processor) on RHEL/CentOS 7/8. If you are working with JSON then you might be aware of jq tool which is being used to query and process the JSON output on Linux Based Servers. jq is an open source tool available from EPEL ... Read more

In this article, I will take you through the steps to defragment an xfs filesystem in Linux. Before we go the defragmentation of an xfs filesystem it is very important to understand why we need to defragment a filesystem. You might have Known or heard about the problem of fragmentation in a filesystem which is ... Read more

In this article, I will take you through the steps to Install Arpwatch tool on RHEL/CentOS 7/8. Arpwatch is an open source tool used in the Linux Based Servers for keeping track of ethernet/ip address pairings along with the timestamp. It can be used to maintain a database of ethernet/ip address pairings. Arpwatch uses pcap ... Read more

In this article, I will show you how to use proxy server to update packages from YUM Repository in Linux. Many times we face a situation where Linux Server currently residing in a private network which does not have any access to public network or Internet needs to be updated from YUM Repository on a ... Read more

In this article, I will take you through the steps to Install and Enable EPEL Repository on RHEL/CentOS 7/8. EPEL is a very commonly used repository for package installation on RHEL/CentOS Based Servers. Although EPEL Repository is created and managed by Fedora Community but it is very frequently used on other Linux Servers as well. ... Read more

In this article, i will show you how to install googler on RHEL/CentOS 7/8 in easy steps. If you are looking for a tool to perform google search from Linux Command Line then you can think about installing and using a tool called googler. This tool provides lot of different options which can be used ... Read more

In this article, I will show you the usage of Googler - best tool for Google search from Linux Command Line or Terminal. Have you ever thought of using google search through Linux command line or Linux terminal ? If you are wondering if it is possible or not then let me tell you this ... Read more

In this article, I will take your through 10 Easy Steps to Install psacct User Activity Monitoring tools on RHEL/CentOS 7/8. Now a days there are many open source user activity monitoring tool available to monitor the user activity on Linux based Servers. psacct or acct are also one such package that provides multiple number ... Read more

In this article, I will show you simple and easy steps to install ffmpeg on RHEL/CentOS 7/8. ffmpeg is a free and open source command line tool in Linux based servers for handling video, audio and other multimedia files. ffmpeg contains audio/video codec library and other important libraries to encode and decode multimedia files. It ... Read more