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Understanding Shared Libraries in Linux

In programming, a library is an assortment of pre-compiled pieces of code that can be reused in a program. Libraries

YUM plug-ins are small programs that extend and improve the overall performance of the package manager. A few of them

firewall-cmd is a command line front-end for firewalld (firewalld daemon), a dynamic firewall management tool with D-Bus interface. It supports

In Linux, hard and soft links are referenced to files, which are very important, if not protected very well, any

strace is a powerful command line tool for debugging and trouble shooting programs in Unix-like operating systems such as Linux.

In Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, “everything is a file” and a file is fundamentally a link to an

The CentOS 6 official software repositories has PHP 5.3 which has reached end of life and no longer actively maintained

In our previous article, where we’ve explained how to TMOUT shell variable to auto logout Linux shell when there isn’t

How often do you leave a Linux system idle after login; a situation which can be referred to as an

Wildcards (also referred to as meta characters) are symbols or special characters that represent other characters. You can use them

This is our ongoing series on Linux Auditing, in this fourth part of this article, we will explain how to

This article is our ongoing series on Linux Auditing, in our last three articles we have explained how to audit