From the monthly archives:
Q. How do I find out what process are eating up all my memory. Is it possible to find out how long that memory has been allocated to particular process? How do I kill that process to free up memory?
A. You need to use the top command which provides a dynamic real-time view of [...]
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How do I display or change a default page other than index.html or index.php under Apache web server?
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Q. How do I format floppy and zip disk under Linux?
A. You need to fdformat command. It does a low level format on a floppy disk device is usually /dev/fd0 or /dev/fd1:
/dev/fd0 is your first floppy disk drive (A: under MS-DOS/ Windows XP). You must be the root to run following command.
Task: [...]
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Q. I need to get the IP address assigned to eth0 Linux interface. How do I find out IP address only? I don’t want other information displayed by Linux ifconfig command.
A. For shell script or may be for other cause you may need the IP address only. You can use ifconfig command with grep [...]
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Q. How do I find out my cpu is a dual-core cpu on Cent Os Linux?
A. Following are are few tips for identifying whether a cpu is dual-core or not. Please note there are few factors that might give your wrong result. For example wrong kernel image installed.
Task: Display CPU information
Type the following command to [...]
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Q. I have downloaded a file from internet that ends with .bin extension. Documentation says just run bin file. What command I need to type in order to run bin files in Linux.
A. .bin files are Linux self extracting binary files. For example Java or Flash are two examples of these types of file. Just [...]
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