sysadmin Kill process running under certain port So you have started your django or Ruby on Rails development server. Then you make some code changes that require the dev server reboot. Usually the server automatically watches your code files and
sysadmin Moving files to remote server via rsync Today I find myself once again having to free up space on a production box. I had to make a choice between resizing a partition to accommodate more storage space and moving/backing
sysadmin ncdu is a great Linux command line to to analyze your disk space One of the things I often run into quite often is freeing up disk space on my computer as well as cloud servers. Disk space is one the limited computing resources you have
rm rm -r: The most dreadful computer program I know When you want to perform a certain task on your computer and then you get that pop-up box that asks you if you really want to do what you said you want to
sysadmin Automating LAMP stack installation The LAMP stack; Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP changed the web -- forever. These four musketeers empowered hobbyist, novice and pro launch their ideas to the world with so much ease that the
sysadmin How to ssh into server that has no public ip from anywhere If you are dev in Uganda, you are the one am writing this for. That's because most of us work on our localhost machines that are usually hooked to mobile internet. ISPs in
sysadmin How to delete tone of files easily and quickly on Unix So today, I no discovered my root partition was almost filled up. But it wasn't because of some huge file or directory, but very small files that were being created on the system
sysadmin How to create strong passwords in Linux Most Linux servers still use password-based authentication for local and remote login. Since server hacks are on the raise, it's important to have in place schemes to secure your server. Now I strongly
sysadmin Setting up an NFS share on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Network File System is a great way of sharing files on a network of connected Linux boxes. NFS is really robust albeit less used or understood by lots of people. It's mainly used
sysadmin 7 ways of transferring files from remote server to localhost Whether you are developer, devops guy or a sys admin in charge of multiple servers, you'll always find yourself wanting to move files from one machine to another. It's not an easy feat