4 Ways to Disable Root Account in Linux
The root account is the ultimate account on a Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. This account has access to all commands and files on a system with full read, write and execute permissions....
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Linux Commands for Linux Beginners
How to Search and Remove Directories Recursively on Linux
In one of our previous articles, we explained how to find out top directories and files consuming the most disk space on file system in Linux. If you notice that such directories no longer...
4 Useful Tools to Run Commands on Multiple Linux Servers
In this article, we will show how to run commands on multiple Linux servers at the same time. We will explain how to use some of the widely known tools designed to execute repetitive...
How to Create and Use Alias Command in Linux
Linux users often need to use one command over and over again. Typing or copying the same command again and again reduces your productivity and distracts you from what you are actually doing. You...
How to Use ‘fsck’ to Repair File System Errors in Linux
Filesystems are responsible for organizing how data is stored and recovered. One way or another, with time, filesystem may become corrupted and certain parts of it may not be accessible. If your filesystem develops...
How to Download MP3 Tracks from a YouTube Video Using YouTube-DL
We all love listening to music. Whether it’s in the gym, at work, outside, music is part of our life. Everyone has their own music collection and undoubtedly everyone likes to expand it. While...
How to Undo or Redo a Yum Install on CentOS and RHEL
One of the most important and useful feature added to YUM Package Manager (from version 3.2.25) is the ‘yum history’ command. It allows you to review a full history of yum transactions that have...
How to Find Out File Types in Linux
The easiest way to determine the type of a file on any operating system is usually to look at its extension (for instance .xml, .sh, .c, .tar etc..). What if a file doesn’t have...
How to Remove Packages with Dependencies Using Yum
Normally, removing a package using YUM package management system will remove that package together with its dependencies. However, certain dependencies will not be removed on the system, these are what we can term as...
How to Reconfigure Installed Package in Ubuntu and Debian
dpkg-reconfigure is a powerful command line tool used to reconfigure an already installed package. It is one of the several tools offered under dpkg – the core package management system on Debian/Ubuntu Linux. It...
