Linux Commands List – Archiving & Compression

The following command will be used when you are taking the backup of data. Compressing the file to minimal size to transfer to another location. There are 3 types of compression utlities in linux basically ie .gz,.bz2 and .zip files.   Archiving & Compression Command Description # bunzip2 filename.bz2 Uncompressing “filename.bz2 to filename” # bzip2 […]

Linux Commands List – System Startup & Shutdown

The following commands will be very usefull for starting up the server and ending the session of the server. This includes init, login and logout.   System Halts Command Description # init 0 system shutdown # logout leaving session # reboot Rebooting Machine # shutdown -h now shutdown system now # shutdown -h 12:30 Scheduled […]

Linux Commands List – System Details

The command line mode is very popular and it’s very useful when u don’t have the Server GUI. The command line produces same output as GUI options. The following list of the command will be very use full for all system administrators.   System Details Command Description # arch To seearchitecture of machine #dmesg To […]

Install Adobe Reader 9.5.4 on Ubuntu 12.10

Adobe reader is most widely used application for viewing the portable document format (PDF) developed by Adobe systems, it is available for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, IOS and available in 29 languages. By default Ubuntu 12.10 has Document Viewer for viewing the pdf documents; but it does not full fill the needs because you might […]

Password Less Login SSH – CentOS 6 / RHEL 6

SSH is a client and serer protocol, that help us to access the remote system over the network through the encrypted tunnel. Whenever the client access the server, the client downloads the secure key from the server and at the same time server also downloads key from client. Those two keys make the encrypted tunnel […]