This category contains all the Linux, Solaris and ELK based topics.
In this article, I will take you through 6 Popular Examples of stat command in Linux/Unix. stat is an open source command Line tool to check the File and Filesystem stats. This tool will provide useful information about file/filesystem size, total blocks, available blocks, file permissions, file access time, file modify time, file change time ... Read more
In this article, I will take you through different steps to drop/flush/clear cache memory in Linux. As you might be aware Linux has very robust Memory Management System but still if you need to clear cache memory due to certain reasons then you need to do it manually. Someday if you ran into a problem ... Read more
In this article, I will take you through 10 Useful Linux/Unix modprobe command examples. modprobe is an open source command line tool used for adding and removing modules in Linux/Unix. Being a Linux professional you must be aware of the tools that can be used to view, install and remove kernel and other system modules. ... Read more
In this article, I will take you through the different usages of cat command in Linux. cat command is also abbreviated as "concatenate". It is the most popular opensource tool in Linux and Unix based Systems to show/view contents of the files. You can also perform operations like search, redirect, append etc with the help ... Read more
In this article, I will take you through 20 Useful Linux History Command Examples. As a Linux Professional you must be running multiple commands every day in your system but did you ever thought if these commands gets recorded anywhere or can you fetch the commands which you ran in the past ? The answer ... Read more
In this article, I will take you through 20 Useful curl command in Linux with Examples. curl is very powerful command line tool to send or receive GET and POST request/response from web server. You can even use this tool to upload your data in the FTP Server. There are other useful operations like checking ... Read more
In this article, I will take you through the steps to install and configure FTP Server in Linux. FTP is known as File Transfer Protocol used for transferring files over the network insecurely. Since FTP transferred data is in plain text and not in encrypted form so it is usually recommended to use the secure ... Read more
In this article, I will explain you about the possible reasons for "Failed to restart network service: Unit network service not found" error and will also show you all the possible solutions that can be done to solve this issue. As you might be aware this error is very frequent whenever you change some network ... Read more
In this article, we will look into the possible reasons of getting network.service failed to start LSB: Bring up/down networking error in RHEL/CentOS 7/8 based systems and the number of solutions that can be done to solve this issue. This error is quite common now a days for all the Linux Professionals to deal with. ... Read more
In this article I will take you through 11 Useful LVM(lvcreate, pvcreate and vgcreate) command example on Linux. You might be aware of LVM Technologies which is frequently being used by multiple Organizations to manage their resources effectively. You can check more about LVM Configuration on How to Configure LVM in Linux (pvcreate, vgcreate and ... Read more