unix
Deluge Torrent – A full-featured BitTorrent client!
Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it’s backend and features multiple user-interfaces including: GTK+, web and console. It has been designed using the client server model with a daemon process that handles all the bittorrentactivity. The Deluge daemon is able to run on headless machines with the user-interfaces [...]
TightVNC 2.0.2 – A free remote control software
TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer. TightVNC is: free for both personal and commercial usage, with full source code available, useful [...]
Microsoft to Drop Linux, Unix Versions of Enterprise Search
Microsoft will no longer offer Linux or Unix versions of its enterprise search products after a wave of releases set to ship in the first half of this year, the company announced in an official blog post Thursday. After Microsoft bought Fast Search & Transfer in 2008, it said it would continue offering and updating standalone versions of [...]
How to Build Wireshark from source under UNIX
Wireshark is a free packet analyzer computer application. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. Originally named Ethereal, in May 2006 the project was renamed Wireshark due to trademark issues. Wireshark is cross-platform, using the GTK+ widget toolkit to implement its user interface, and using pcap to capture [...]
How to check your dns with nslookup command
Nslookup command is used to test the Dns , Queries a name server for a host or domain lookup.NSLOOKUP was originally written on a Unix system, and so is easily run on most Linux variants by simply typing “nslookup” on the command line. On Windows systems you need to search your computer for the program [...]
How to Install and Configure memcached
Memcached is a simple, yet highly-scalable key-based cache that stores data and objects wherever dedicated or spare RAM is available for very quick access by applications. To use, you run memcached on one or more hosts and then use the shared cache to store objects.Because each host’s RAM is storing information, the access speed will [...]
How to “Network Ping Lite†for iPhone
Another nice free admin tool “Network Ping Lite†with useful features: Ping a single IP address Ping a subnet to get an overview Traceroute to determine the route taken by packets Telnet console for simple access to a router or Unix server Get it from here: Download link iTunes Store.
How to find unix server uptime with command
Linux and UNIX comes with various command to find out server uptime command. Under Linux file /proc/uptime has uptime information, /var/run/utmp has information about who is currently logged on. However, information from /proc or utmp file is not directly readable by humans so we use following commands: Uptime command $ uptime 17:08:49 up 5:54, 6 [...]
How to get basic information about UNIX system
Task: Get the date and time Display or set the system date and time, use: $ date Task: Find out more about my UNIX operating system Print all system information, use: $ uname -a Task: Find out who logged in lately Show listing of last 10 logged in users, use: $ last -10 Task: Find [...]
How to make a histogram In Linux
A histogram is set of count, value pairs indicating how often the value occurs. The basic operation will be to sort, then count how many values occur in a row and then reverse sort so that the value with the highest count is at the top of the report. $ … | sort |uniq -c|sort [...]
How to Optimize and repair all mysql databases at once
There is a really handy MySql utility called mysqlcheck that allows you to do a number of actions to all databases on your mysql server at once. I am writing this specifically for Linux, but I’m sure windows and Unix versions are very similar if not exactly the same. Run this command as root Repair [...]
Linux Command Line Cheat Sheets – The ultimate collection
This is a compilation of approx 70 cheat sheets for Linux users. There are a grip load of commands that Linux users have at hand which can seem very daunting to a novice. This collection will make Linux just a little less of a headache to learn. Suggestion: Look through all of them and then [...]
Can’t connect to MySQL server
A MySQL client on Unix can connect to the mysqld server in two different ways: By using a Unix socket file to connect through a file in the file system (default /tmp/mysql.sock), or by using TCP/IP, which connects through a port number. A Unix socket file connection is faster than TCP/IP, but can be used only when connecting [...]