10+ useful tail command’s switches with example – Unix/Linux The tail command By default, the tail command prints the last 10 lines from the file which is given followed by the tail command. In the case of more than one…
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Identify all open files in a directory – lsof command
How to check all opened files in a directory – lsof command? LSOF is a smart linux command-line utility for analysing the information about the files which are opened by various processes. LSOF stands for List of Open Files. This command…
Install and configure iftop (network analyser) – Unix/Linux
How to install iftop on Unix/Linux server? The command “iftop” is using for bandwidth (BW) monitoring on a server. It is simple to monitor a server BW with iftop command. You can analyse the incoming and outgoing packets using iftop…
Load monitoring in Linux servers – top, w and uptime commands’ usage for checking the load on server
Load on Linux – top, w, uptime This is a necessary thing to check the load-average on your server for its better and stable performance. In a Linux server/system we can check the load by different ways. High load on…
20+ Rsync command’s switches and common usages with examples – Unix/Linux
The “rsync” is a powerful command under the Linux environment. The rsync stands for Remote Sync. Normally rsync is used to transfer file from one server(source) to another server(destination). rsync has a lot of switches or option for managing the…
Analysing mail log details – Exim log file flags a detailed view
How to analyse the mail log details – Exim? To play with email issues we’ve a good knowledge about the log file and different log line flags. We know the basics of exim MTA and its basic commands. We already discussed…
15+ tar command usages with examples – Unix/Linux
tar command in Linux. This is one of the most commonly using Linux command. This is very similar to the ZIP concept in Windows platform, what we are using commonly to save multiple file together. The ‘tar‘ saves many files…