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Git: How to Remove a Remote

What Is A Git Remote? A remote within the control system Git is a common repository utilized by all users when exchanging changes that have been made. The git remote is essentially a pointer referring to a cloned versio... →

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The Zip Command in Linux: How to Zip Files and Directories

If you're looking to archive your files and directories, regardless of your OS, "zip" is the format that is most popular and supported by the largest number of clients and operating systems. In this tutorial, we'll go ov... →

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Why is the Linux Logo a Penguin (Tux)?

The Beginning The use of a Penguin as logo/mascot for Linux was discussed first in early 1996 by several people in the linux-kernel mailing list. The idea of such a mascot came from Alan Cox first. Among many other sugg... →

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How to Perform Linux Server Monitoring with CloudStats

CloudStats is a powerful tool for Linux server monitoring and network monitoring. This Software-as-a-Service tool allows to track all key indicators of system health, such as CPU and RAM usage, apps and processes perform... →

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Linux df Command Usage Examples

This post about Linux df command opens series of articles for Linux newbies where you'll find description and usage examples of major Linux commands like df, top, fsck, mount and so on. Introduction Linux df comman... →

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Linux Restricted Shells: rssh and scponly

Restricted shells like rssh and scponly give sysadmin the possibility to limit the operations that Linux user can do, for example you can create user that will be allowed to copy files via scp but won't be permitted to l... →

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Failover and Load Balancing using HAProxy

HAProxy is open source proxy that can be used to enable high availability and load balancing for web applications. It was designed especially for high load projects so it is very fast and predictable, HAProxy is based on... →

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Track file changes using auditd

Most of Linux distributions comes with Linux Auditing System that makes it possible to track file changes, file accesses as well as system calls. It's pretty useful functionality for sysadmins who wish to know who and wh... →