Posted by tony on November 22, 2017
For those who pay attention to the little details, the default hostname in Ubuntu 16.04 can be a constant source of irritation. Something like ‘dell-laptop-3344’ just won’t do for a hostname when you’re used to mo
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System administration is a vital part of managing infrastructure today, whether you are a seasoned sysadmin or a humble developer trying to juggle many hats simultaneously. Normally, the way to go about it is the command line, which happ
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Samba is a file-sharing service that can connect two or more computers on a network- you can even share files between Linux and W
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If you’re a BitTorrent user on Ubuntu, you’re very likely looking for a good BitTorrent client. The default Transmission client in Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04 does the job, but that’s about all it does. It doesn’t have a
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Introduction to Installing htop on CentOS 7 Many sysadmins know about top
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If you’re running CentOS you’ll feel the need to know the version you’re running, sooner than later. It might be that you installed CentOS very long ago and since then have upgraded many times, or maybe you’ve tak
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When it comes to configuring network interfaces in CentOS 7, the weapon of choice is the ip command. For instance, to get all the information regarding the currently configured interfaces, you can issue:
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In networked systems, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is pretty common. Despite being a mouthful of a term, the basic idea behind DHCP is pretty simple. The DHCP server in a network maintains a list of pos
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If you’re a sysadmin, you know how scary losing a root password can be. Don’t worry, though. If you lose or forget the password to your
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phpMyAdmin is a very popular tool for administration of relational databases like MySQL and MariaDB. However, it doesn’t come installed by default. In this article, we’ll see how to install phpMyAdmin on
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