In this tutorial, we’ll be going over the Linux watch command and how we can utilize it in our Linux administration work. Essentially, the watch command is a utility that allows us to continually execute a command at specific intervals and monitor the differences between the outputs. Why could this be useful? For a lot
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In this tutorial, we are going to discuss how to install Apache Kafka on Ubuntu. What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform developed by LinkedIn and donated to Apache Software Foundation, written in Scala and Java. In simple terms, Kafka is a messaging system that is designed to be fast,
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In this tutorial, we are going to discuss how to change the user password in Linux. The instructions given below can work on any Linux distribution. The passwd command is used to update or change the user’s authentication token. There are two types of users; normal users, and the root user. The normal user can
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The Linux which command is used to identify the path of executable files. The path is identified by searching it in the path environment variables. Syntax of Linux which is as follows: What is the PATH variable? PATH is an environment variable in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that tells the shell which directories
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The chmod (change mode) command in Linux is used to change the access mode of a file, based on the type of user accessing the file and the type of permission associated with accessing the file. File Permissions and User Groups For understanding what the types of permissions and the types of users are, let
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Changing the SSH port on Linux is pretty easy and straightforward. As it is with most of the packages that are available for any Linux distribution including Ubuntu, they come with a configuration file. Let’s modify that configuration file and update our port to something that’s not so commonly available. Change SSH Port in Linux
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The installation for MySQL on Debian will be through the APT repository. Now there is a default MySQL server installation and one that is offered by Oracle through their software repositories. We’ll take the official route by first adding Oracle’s sources first and then installing the MySQL server. How to Install MySQL on Debian/Ubuntu Before
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The Debian repository already has a VirtualBox package for us to directly install on our systems. But it’s a version older than the latest official release. As of this writing, the version available in the apt sources is 5.2, while the latest one is version 6.1. So let’s see how we can go about installing
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As a programmer, you’ll need to make use of the git for your code versioning needs very often. And if you’re writing code in a collaborative environment, Git will take care of a majority of the work in code collaboration. Its focus is on helping code version control in a distributed setting, track changes made
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There are multiple ways of setting hostname in Debian or Linux system. You can temporarily change the hostname, or permanently apply the changes to a system. Let’s go over these methods. Setting hostname temporarily Let’s start with the temporary and simple method. The hostname command in Debian allows you to set up the system hostname
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