The Linux Compendium
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
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
Grafana is a multi-platform open-source analytics and visualization platform to monitor computer systems. Grafana lets you create and share dashboards and has a thriving ecosystem of over 100 plugins for data collection, storage, visualization, and sharing. In this article, we’re going to show you how to install Grafana on Ubuntu 20.04 so that you can … Read more
Linux Kernel 5.15 was released as the newest Long Term Support (LTS) kernel release on Oct 31,2021. It provides new enhancements and features including a new NTFS driver and built-in support for Intel’s Alchemist discrete graphics. In summary, the latest kernel ships with the following improvements and features: AMD RDNA2 Graphics card initial support. New … Read more
SSHGuard is an open-source daemon that is used to enhance the security of ssh as well as other network protocols. Moreover, it is used to prevent brute force attacks. It will continuously monitor and keep the track record of the system logs which helps in tracking the continuous login attempts or malicious activity. Once it … Read more
Snort is a well-known open-source network intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS). Snort is very useful to monitor the package sent and received through a network interface. You can specify the network interface to monitor the traffic flow. Snort works on the basis of signature-based detection. Snort uses different types of rulesets to detect network … Read more
Linux container virtualization (LXD) is similar to Virtual machines (e.g. KVM) but with more speed, efficiency and much lighter compared to virtual machines. LXD containers for OS like Ubuntu, Centos, Arch Linux, etc are easy to create. LXD uses the same Linux kernel which reduces the overhead of the addition of such kernels. In this … Read more