The Linux Compendium
Postfix is an efficient Mail Transfer Agent used for routing and sending receiving emails which is available as OpenSource software. It is the most well-known email server used in different Linux distributions. This is actually the replacement of an old Sendmail MTA that is pre-installed on the latest Rocky Linux versions as well. You may … Read more
Since Linux users are more comfortable working with command-line interfaces, Amazon Web Services introduced the AWS CLI to manage all these services from a single platform. AWS CLI is the AWS command line interface to the AWS services, and Amazon also provides an AWS CLI python module. With this tool, you can manage multiple services … Read more
Installing Apache requires the installation of a complete LAMP package (Linux, Apache, MySQL and, PHP). To do development, users require a complete set of these open-source software and a locally set up machine before they can host their websites to test it out. We will go through the complete installation of the LAMP stack on … Read more
We all know how running a command in the Debian command line, the Terminal, results in the execution of the command and printing of the results, if any, in the Terminal itself. Sometimes, this immediate display of output is not enough, especially if we want to save the output for later use. Fortunately, the Linux … Read more
Finding data in a system with thousands of files becomes very difficult for administrators, especially for system users who are not familiar with the command line. While searching via the graphical user interface is possible, it has certain limitations in terms of speed and functionality. The command line provides flexibility to quickly search files using … Read more
If you want to do a task with a particular user account that you are not currently logged in to, you usually change your user account for some time to complete that task. However, if you want to save yourself the whole process of changing users, you can also do it through the Linux terminal. … Read more
In order to track the ownership, deployment process, and details of all servers, a powerful IT asset manager is required. This can be achieved by installing and using Snipe-IT, an open-source IT asset management tool. In this article, we will discuss the installation of Snipe-IT on an Ubuntu 22.04 server. Installation of the Snipe-IT Asset … Read more
Ubuntu is considered a good distribution for beginners who usually want to learn Linux from scratch. In comparison between OS software, it is far better than windows. The integral part of system administration is File compression. It might be quite a tough task to find a reliable file compression tool. Till now many robust compression … Read more
Rust Programming Language is a new language from Mozilla and the Rust team that was designed to bring modern programming language features and high performance to systems programming. Though it has many new concepts, it is still a work in progress, so do not expect it to be perfect. Rust is a remarkable project, as … Read more
Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It allows the user to examine data from a live network, or from a capture file on disk. Wireshark can be used as a simple network troubleshooting tool, as well as for security analysis and software development. Installing Wireshark on Debian 11 is easy – in this … Read more