As a Linux administrator, you must check time to time which files and folders are eating more disk space. It is very necessary to find the unnecessary junks and free up them from your hard disk to avoid overrunning the…
Category: Linux/Unix
10 Useful du (Disk Usage) Commands to Find Disk Usage of Files and Directories
The Linux du (abbreviation of “Disk Usage”) is a standard Unix/Linux command which is used to check the disk usage of files and directories. The du command has many parameters that can be used to get the results in different…
Get Started with Vi Editor
Vi editor is a command line text editor. It’s a single window with text input and output only. It is the most popular and classic text editor in the Linux and it is available in all Linux Distributions. There are…
How to receive an email alert for disk usage on linux server
Certain actions on your online application need ample free space on disk to complete. For example, when you want to install new software. Even when you want to run updates on your server your server needs free memory and space…
Cookie secure and HTTPOnly Attributes in Vestacp
Vestacp is an open source server management tool. Once you install it on server it becomes an integral part of your server. Also, it comes under any PCI compliance scans you would run on your server. In my case I…
How to Check Memory Usage of Processes on Linux
One of the basic task you can do on your computer or server is to check how much memory or RAM (Random Access Memory) each of the process is using. RAM or memory of your computer or server is limited…
How to Extract (Unzip) Tar Gz File
Gzip is the most popular algorithm for compressing tar files. By convention, the name of a tar archive compressed with gzip ends with either .tar.gz or .tgz.
Install SSL certificate on Linux server
SSL certificate is used to make a website a secure. Secured Socket Layer(SSL works on an algorithm to encrypt data exchanged between browser and server.
Export, Import MySQL db between different servers through Linux command line
You should have Database name, Database Username, Database Password and command line access to your server Export database to local file system, for example /var/www/html
Setting up ssh key-pair with different name than id_rsa
I have had got a id_rsa key in my local machine which I used to connect to github. Now I wanted another keypair so that I could connect to bitbucket repository and another one for the digitalocean vps server.