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Linux Basics – the ‘kill’ command and process signals

17/05/2018

The kill command The kill command is used in Linux to terminate a running process. Various signals may be passed via the kill command to either terminate the process gracefully, tell the process to restart or to shut it down forcefully. We will first cover the process table and then some commonly used signals. Process Table The […]

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Installing Apache/MySQL/PHP on Linux (LAMP Stack) (Abridged Guide)

27/03/2018

LAMP Server To develop PHP web apps, you need to set up Apache, MySQL and PHP, in a LAMP Stack (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) environment. You can either install the individual components i.e Apache, MySQL and PHP or you can install a BUNDLE package which includes all the software needed in a single installer package. There are various […]

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HowTo: Use Linux Screen command

27/03/2018

A bit about Linux Screen Linux Screen lets you do amazing things. Using Screen, you can use multiple shell windows from a single SSH session. Linux Screen enables you to keep a shell active even through network disruptions. You can disconnect and re-connect to shell sessions from multiple locations and run a long-running process without […]

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Limit CPU Usage of a Process in Linux

25/03/2018

How to Limit CPU Usage of a Process in Ubuntu and CentOS Sometimes you get that one process that just eats up all your resources. In my case, it’s Google-Chrome. I had to find a way to deal with it without resorting to yet another plugin. In this article, I will discuss how to control […]

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BASH – file permissions

26/02/2018

File permissions in Linux are one of those things that you either spend some time getting to grips with (and then never forget) or you end up having to double check against Google every time you need to change a file permission. Hopefully, this article will assist you in the former and help you avoid […]

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Task Automation

20/01/2018

Why Automation? In IT, as in most business, there are certain tasks which end up stealing all your joy by being endlessly boring and repetitive. We used to call them “character building” but with all that is available to us today, we can dispense with manually doing many of these “character builders”. What these tasks […]

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