Today I had someone ask me how to find a file on the Linux box that had been using. I quickly responded to this person with the following find -name “somefile.example” I just thought I’d share more right from the man pages. findutils is actually made up of 4 utilities: find – search for files […]
Console-based ethernet statistics monitor.Ethstatus is a console-based monitoring utility for displaying statistical data of the ethernet interface on a quantity basis. It is similar to iptraf but is meant to run as a permanent console task to monitor the network load. Install Ethstatus in Ubuntu sudo apt-get install ethstatus If you want to see your […]
There is no real need to post this because of how awesome it is. By now most of you know this, but for those of you who do not… It plays almost anything! I use it both in Windows and Ubuntu. Simple to install, simple to use. In Ubuntu sudo apt-get install vlc In […]
I had this issue where I could not install anything new in my Ubuntu server. After some searching I come to lean that the packages cache seemed to be corrupted # symptom is something such as this root@media:~# apt-get update root@media:~# apt-get install htop Reading package lists… Done Segmentation faulty tree… 50% # and this […]
This is a little short on how to install the ESX VMWare Tools on Ubuntu Server If you are not running as the ‘root’ user you will need to change into super user Lets start — # if not running as ‘root’ change into super user sudo su # update your sources apt-get update […]
LAMP which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP and serves the purpose of web development based on Open Source concept. Apache is the Web server, MySQL is the relational database and PHP (Preprocessor Hyper Text) is an object oriented programming language. The simplest and most likely to be used approach is to use the […]