Installing Perf Performance Analysis Tool on CentOS 8
In this guide, we are going to learn on installing Perf Performance Analysis Tool on CentOS 8. Perf aka perf_events aka perf tools is a powerful performance counters monitoring tool for Linux systems that gathers data about hardware events such as instructions executed, branches mispredicted or cache-misses suffered.
It also provides very low overhead...
Create User Account using useradd/adduser commands in Linux
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create user account using useradd/adduser commands in Linux. User management is one of the most common task in Linux system administration. Creating users, setting up their environments, setting passwords, managing their groups, deleting users etc are all tasks surrounding user management in Linux. Having the ability to manage users...
Connect to WiFi in Linux Using NMCLI command
This tutorial will guide you on how to connect to WiFi in Linux using NMCLI command. NMCLI is a command-line tool for controlling NetworkManager and reporting network status. It can be utilized as a replacement for nm-applet or other graphical clients. It is used to create, display, edit, delete, activate, and deactivate network connections, as well as...
Install and Setup ZSH and Oh-My-Zsh on Ubuntu 20.04
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to install and setup Zsh and Oh-my-Zsh on Ubuntu 20.04.
Z shell (ZSH) Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. It incorporates features of other shells such as Bash, tcsk, ksh. Some of...
Install and Use 7zip on Ubuntu 18.04/Ubuntu 20.04
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to install and use 7zip on Ubuntu 18.04/Ubuntu 20.04. 7zip is a free and open-source file archiver with a high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, LZMA2, XZ, ZIP, Zip64, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM, ISO, most filesystem images and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new...
Viewing System Processes using ps and top commands
When commands are run on a system, various processes associated with them are created. Among the roles of a system administrator, being able to determine what processes are running, monitor and manage them is a critical skill. There are several program tools that can be used to achieve this. In this tutorial, we are going to explore some of...
