Thanks to Linux, we have access to many tools that facilitate networking administration & diagnostics. In this sense, the Linux ping command is one of the most useful tools for sysadmins and network administrators. Its basic function is to determine if one host of the network is reachable or not. However, in this post, we will […]
In this post, we will cover many aspects of MySQL on Linux. First of all, how to install it, how to perform basic CRUD operations, how to import & export data, play with the MySQL engine itself such as setting the root user password and much more. MySQL is one of the most popular relational […]
In a previous tutorial, we talked about expect command and we saw how to automate scripts in Linux using its scripting language. Today, we will take a step further in our automation techniques and talk about a tool that automates tasks more professionally and for different platforms, this tool is Ansible. We will also talk […]
Docker has had a huge impact on software development life cycle, making the deployment of software at scale easy and secure. This Docker tutorial will cover the basics of running, starting, stopping, and removing Docker containers. Docker makes it so easy to work with different programming languages with different versions on different operating systems all this […]
If you want to send or receive an email, you should have a mail server. In this post, we will discuss Linux mail server and how the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) works as well as other mail-related protocols, like Post Office Protocol (POP) and Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and the relationship between them. […]
Linux proxy server or proxy server generally is a server that saves the visited web pages for later requests, so if you try to visit the same web page or any one else, the page will be retrieved from the proxy server. This is very useful, it makes web surfing much faster and reduces the […]
Linux file server is one of the powerful servers that helps you to share files and printers with Windows-based PCs and other operating systems. Before we talk about using Samba as a file server, let’s discuss some basics. Linux/Samba/Windows Relationship To understand Linux/Samba/Windows relationship, you need to understand the relationships of the operating […]
The Linux virtual file system or virtual file system generally is a layer that sits on the top of your actual file system which allows the user to access different types of file systems, you can think of virtual file system as an interface between the kernel and the actual file system. That means you […]
In this tutorial, we will talk about Linux web server or Apache web server specifically and how to install it and configure it to serve your content to others. A web server is a system that manipulates requests via HTTP protocol, you request a file from the server and it responds with the requested file, […]
FTP or File Transfer Protocol is a commonly used protocol for transferring files between computers, one act as a client, the other act as a server. In this post, we will talk about the FTP server in Linux systems, specifically Very Secure FTP Daemon (vsftpd). The vsftpd program is a very popular FTP server that is used […]
