In this tutorial we will learn , how to install Virtual Box in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr). VirtualBox is free Virtualisation Sofware under the GNU General Public License Version 2. Presently, VirtualBox can be installed on Windows,Linux,Macintosh and Solaris. It is one of the popular Virtualisation Software among System Admins. It is one of…
A few days back I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) on my laptop. It is a Desktop Edition. As a default web browser it ship with Firefox version 28 . On April 29, 2014 means 4 days back, firefox released new version 29. We can install firefox version 29 with the help of apt-get…
In this tutorial, we will learn how to install latest Google Chrome in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) . No matter, what Google Chrome version is released . To make the practical easy to approach to new bie , we have given the topic as “Install latest Google Chrome in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)”…
In modern internet time, the flash player become a essential package to install. The big websites like youtube.com still running videos on flash platform. Whereas we also know, the HTML 5 has been in IT world since a few years. To run html 5 web pages, the user should have HTML 5 supporting Web browser…
In this tutorial, we will learn the basic use of head command in Linux / Unix system. Head command is widely used for System Administration. As the name suggest, it shows the head part means show output of the first part of files . Introduction Of Head Command Head command in Linux / Unix system,…
Today, while working on CentOS server, the requirement was to install mod_fcgid . In CentOS , the by-defualt yum repo link does not have mod_fcgid package. What is mod_fcgid mod_fcgid is a high performance alternative to mod_cgi or mod_cgid, which starts a sufficient number instances of the CGI program to handle concurrent requests, and these…
In this tutorial we will learn about whoami command in Linux / Unix system. We will also read about its use and advantage. Its best use is in shell like sh,ash and ksh where username is not seen in command prompt. Introduction Of whoami Command The whoami command print the user name associated with user…
In this post, you will learn about how to search keyword or string in Man Page like we do in vi/vim file editor. It basically searching keyword within same man page of the command. Question: How may I search a keyword in man page like we search in vi /vim editor ? Answer: To search…
In this tutorial we will learn, simple method to find the keyword in all available man pages in Linux / Unix system. First we have to be confirm that man command is installed. man page Abbreviation of man page is manual page. It is a software documentation in Unix like operating system. Generally in many…
When we work in terminal or command line, sometime we want to know in which current directory we are working. And sometimes we also want to know in which previous directory I worked.These requirement are simple but are very important for system administration. Information of working directory is also required in scripting. When system administrator…
In Linux and Unix Systems, cd command is one the basic,essential and frequently use command.Abbreviation of cd is “Change Directory” . For Linux/Unix System Administrator, it is important to know by how many ways cd command can be used. In this post, I have listed 6 examples which will help you in your daily system…
Learn how to configure or set motd on Linux Operating Systems. The motd abbreviation is “Message Of The Day”. The motd is widely used in Linux servers.
In this post we are explaining about type command with examples. In Linux system, type command is used for displaying information about command types. It displays if command is an alias,shell function, shell builtin, disk file, or shell reserved word. You can use type command with other command names also. With the help of type…
When we execute any command or script,it returns an exit status. The exit status is also called as return code or exit code. It is important to know the exit status of command which we execute. The method which we are going to describe become more helpful with script also. Exit status must be an…
Learn more about which command with examples to find the path of Linux command and executable files in Linux and Unix operating system.