Securely remove files using shred tool
DeaDSouL In this tutorial we will learn one of the most popular tools to securely remove files from disks on Linux and UNIX systems. Which called shred. To prevent or decrease…
The FreeBSD binary package manager cheatsheet
Let’s find out the essential commands that are needed to manage our binary packages in FreeBSD operating system. By looking into more than 70 practical pkg commands.
How to backup your website from terminal
Why don’t we make the backup process as simple as possible? I mean by issuing one command, the website contents and database should be backed up remotely and locally. Let’s…
Restore ownership and octal permissions from a backup
Have you ever messed up the system’s ownership and/or permissions accidentally? Or maybe you used an application who did that for you? Whichever it was, if that ever happened to…
Setup and configure Transmission torrent’s server (daemon)
We’ll see how to install and setup Transmission the BitTorrent client server daemon on various BSD and Linux distros. To make it automatically download the added torrent’s files. And separate…
HowTo: Manage a service in systemd, SysVinit, Upstart, runit and OpenRC
In this howto, you’ll learn the very minimum needed commands you’d have to know in order to manage your system’s startup processes (services). Whether it was Systemd, SysV init, Upstart,…
BASH script that prints hardware’s temperatures
Here is a simple BASH script I wrote, that can print out the temperatures of: CPUs. GPU. Disks. TINs sensors. You can tweak it as you like and as needed…
rpm : 25 practical common examples of rpm command
If you are a user of a Linux distro that uses the rpm to manage its packages like red hat (RHEL), SUSE, openSUSE, CentOS, Fedora, Mageia, Scientific Linux, Korora Project…
dpkg : 10 practical common examples of dpkg command
If you happen to be a Debian or one of its based distros user (like: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, deepin, Elementary OS, Zorin OS, SparkyLinux … etc), you should definitely know…
How to solve the LC_ locales issue in Debian
Does your Debian‘s based distro such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Linux Lite, deepin, antiX, Zorin OS, LXLE, Peppermint OS and SparkyLinux, complain about LC_* locales. Like the following…