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Patching of the Linux server is one of the important and routine task of Linux admin. Keeping the system with latest patch level is must. It protects your system against …
Four ways to install security updates on Red Hat (RHEL) & CentOS systems Read More
Based on your organization policy you may need to push only security updates due to various reasons. In most cases, it could be an application compatibility issues. Is it possible …
How to check available security updates on Red Hat (RHEL) and CentOS system Read More
We have recently published an article about bulk package installation. While doing that, I struggled to get the installed package information and did a small google search and found few …
How to check whether the given package is already installed in Debian/Ubuntu systems. Read More
A run level is an operating system state on Linux system.There are seven runlevels exist, numbered from zero to six.A system can be booted into any of the given runlevel. …
Five methods to check your system’s current Runlevel in Linux Read More
A gateway is a router that acts as an access point to pass network data from one network to another. The default gateway is your router’s IP address, which must …
How to Find Default Gateway IP in Linux Read More
Most of the time we use Curl Command or Wget Command for file download and other related purpose. We had written best command line download manager in the past. You …
HTTPie – Modern command line HTTP client , An alternate for Curl and Wget Read More
We had written few articles on this title, which allows us to quickly go back to the given parent directory. We normally use cd /go/to/the/path to go to the given …
Pushd & Popd : Easy way to navigate between directories faster in Linux Read More
As a Linux administrator, you have to keep your system up-to-date to get ride out from some unexpected issues. We have to keep the system with latest patches as part …
topgrade – Upgrade/Update the system using single command in Linux Read More
Recently we had written an article about bd command, which help us to quickly go back to the specific parent directory. Even, the up shell script allow us to perform …
UP Shell Script – To Navigate specific parent directory in Linux Read More
Linux groups are organization units used to manage user accounts in Linux. It has unique numerical identification number for each users and groups in the Linux system. It’s called a …
Four methods to add an User to specific group in Linux Read More