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How to Install Icinga 2 Monitoring Server on Rocky Linux 10

Thu, 06/04/2026 - 12:00
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Icinga 2 is a free and open-source monitoring tool that helps you keep an eye on your servers, services, and

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Install Rocky Linux 10 Remotely via RDP on a Headless Server

Tue, 06/02/2026 - 12:00
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Rocky Linux 10 replaced VNC with RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) for remote graphical installations, so if you’ve got a headless

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Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Apache on Rocky Linux 10

Mon, 06/01/2026 - 12:00
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A self-signed SSL certificate lets you run Apache over HTTPS on Rocky Linux 10 without buying one from a Certificate

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cloud-init: How to Set Up Ubuntu 26.04 Servers Automatically

Fri, 05/29/2026 - 12:00
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Installing and configuring cloud-init on Ubuntu 26.04 makes it much easier to automate server setup, especially when working with cloud

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Netplan: Configure Static IP Address and DNS on Ubuntu 26.04

Wed, 05/27/2026 - 17:01
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Netplan is the default network configuration tool on Ubuntu since 18.04, replacing the older ifupdown system with a cleaner YAML-based

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Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Apache on Ubuntu 26.04

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 14:00
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A self-signed SSL certificate lets you run Apache over HTTPS on Ubuntu 26.04 without buying a certificate from a Certificate

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Create a Chat Server in Linux and 5 Other Terminal Tricks

Tue, 05/26/2026 - 12:00
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A collection of practical Linux command line tricks: create a terminal chat server with nc, sum column values on the

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witr: A Tool That Explains Why a Linux Process Is Running

Fri, 05/22/2026 - 13:20
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ps aux shows you what is running on your system, but witr goes a step further and tells you why

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How to Stop a Process Blocking a Port in Linux

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 15:55
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You’ve got a server refusing to start because something’s already sitting on port 8080, and you need to find what’s

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6 Open Source Tools to Monitor MySQL Performance in Linux

Thu, 05/14/2026 - 12:15
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MySQL ships with decent built-in diagnostics, but when your database is slowing down under load, you need command-line tools that

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How to Find Deleted Files Still Eating Disk Space

Wed, 05/13/2026 - 12:00
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df says your disk is 80% full, but du says you’re barely using half, so one of them is lying,

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How to Copy Millions of Files Faster in Linux

Mon, 05/11/2026 - 12:00
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You’ve been copying files with cp for years, and if you’re moving a 50GB backup or syncing a directory tree

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How to Create a Test File of Any Size in Linux

Thu, 05/07/2026 - 11:40
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You need a 1GB test file to benchmark your disk, fill a partition to a specific threshold, or simulate a

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How to Recover Deleted Files in Linux Before They’re Gone

Wed, 05/06/2026 - 12:00
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You deleted a log file mid-session, a running process is still writing to it, and ls shows nothing, but the

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How to Monitor Linux Performance with Sysstat Tools

Mon, 05/04/2026 - 12:25
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Sysstat is a collection of performance monitoring utilities for Linux that includes mpstat, pidstat, iostat, and sar, and together they

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watch: The One Linux Command You Keep Forgetting to Use

Sat, 05/02/2026 - 12:00
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You’re running df -h every 30 seconds by hand to watch a disk fill up, typing the same command over

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SSH Dropped and Killed Your Job? Here’s the Fix

Fri, 05/01/2026 - 12:00
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You’ve been running a long rsync job or a Python script on a remote server only to watch it die

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How to Prevent Passwords from Saving in Bash History

Thu, 04/30/2026 - 16:53
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Every Linux user eventually runs a command they’d rather not preserve – a curl with a hardcoded password, an export

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How to Avoid Retyping Long Commands in Linux

Wed, 04/29/2026 - 18:46
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Ctrl+R and fc let you find, recall, and edit any command from your bash history in seconds, and here’s how

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How to Build a Fast VPN Server with WireGuard on Debian 13

Tue, 04/28/2026 - 17:33
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WireGuard is a modern VPN protocol built directly into the Linux kernel since version 5.6, and this guide walks through

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