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How To Enable IP Forwarding in Linux
By installation default, Linux distribution such as Redhat, CentOS, White OS, and Fedora comes with IP Forwarding disabled. The reason for this is that default linux installation, whether desktop or server, does not consider a default OS installation of forwarding IP packets and request by default, as the linux OS is not fully aware of [...]
How To Install VirtualBox on Fedora 9
VirtualBox has been recently bought by Sun Inc, the maker of Sun’s Java. VirtualBox had proven to do their job when it comes to operating system virtualization. Virtualization using Virtualbox had come to a long way, which enabled every virtual users and system admins to further evaluate different virtual machines to perform its task without [...]
How To Delete Linux Files Older Than 360 days
Searching files recursively for deletion can be real exchausting specially if the target files are queried by their file age. Recursive searching in all linux distribution can be done by using linux find command as find linux command makes recursive searches real easy. Find command is so powerful that it can actually boosts file management [...]
How To Display The Number of Processors in Linux
On Linux, /proc/cpuinfo file contains all of the processor information from your system. This includes the processor speed, vendor id, cpu family, model, model name, CPU MHz, cache size and many more. To mainly determine how many processors your system has, simply parse /proc/cpuinfo details from command line terminal as shown # cat /proc/cpuinfo | [...]
How To Install Fedora 9 From The Internet
Fedora 9 Linux OS can be installed from many variety of ways. There are a lot of Fedora ISOs you can download depending on your system architecture and resources. One of which is that Fedora 9 can be installed via the internet. Here’s how to install Fedora 9 from the internet. Fedora 9 Installation via [...]
How To Identify The Passed Kernel Parameter After Rebooting
Kernel by default can accept kernel parameter to extend and modify its kernel parameter modules and kernel options. This can be done initially during the process of boot selection before bootup process. But, what if the server is currently running and you wish to determine the submitted kernel parameters from the last bootup sequence. Here’s [...]
How To Monitor Linux System Latency
Latency monitoring can also be done in linux specially in Fedora. Latency is a big part of monitoring ethics as the latency is always being checked, not only between two hosts but also from inside the server itself. Here’s a quick post on how to monitor system latency from your linux box. What is LatencyTop? [...]
How To Monitor and Measure HTTP Latency
The highest part of linux system administration tasks are making use of widely available linux and free open source software be fully part of sysad job accomplishment and functions, with the use of linux resources around. Here’s a quick entry on how to monitor and measure HTTP or website latency. Introducing HTTP_PING In a simple [...]
How To Show Expiration Date of Linux User Account
A basic thing to do on flat file linux user account authentication is to identify its account expiration date. Most conventional linux setup makes use of flat file system authentication. This type of authentication makes use of /etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow files mainly, including the user group file /etc/group . Here’s a real quick on how [...]
How To Find Volume Name From Terminal
ISO-9660 file system usually carries a volume name identifier called volume name. One typical ISO-9660 file system is CD-ROM. CD-ROM normally carries this CD volume name embedded from the disk. These volume name can easily be retrieved in linux via terminal. Here’s a quick post on how to find the volume name of ISO-9660 file [...]