What is my IP address? How can I determine my IP address reliably from the command line using Linux?
Introduction This article explains how to get the IP address of a computer as viewed from the outside. The reason why you might want to
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How to vacuum journalctl
How to free up space if your Linux journal (combined log file) is taking up a lot of space On some systems /var/log might be
How to sort a Linux directory by date
Use the following flags to order a directory listing by date in forward order: ls -lat To show a directory listing in reverse order, use
How do you continuously watch / monitor a Linux command?
Sometimes you want to continuously observe a Linux command. Instead of up arrow and enter the whole time, try this: watch -n 1 “systemctl is-active
How to see what’s running on a port in Linux
user@hostname ~ $ sudo lsof -i -P -n | grep LISTEN | grep 1025 mailcatch 1104 root 9u IPv4 27240 0t0
Linux Disk Space File System Management Commands
Introduction Here are some commands to assist with mastering disks and file space management on Linux. TL;DR ncdu is my preferred option. Disk Usage by
How to set up a fault tolerant / failover system on Linux
Problem: You need to make sure that your disks are 100% redundant. Solution: A popular way on Linux to do this is DRBD. Here are
Two good configuration files for DRBD and OCFS2
Problem: You need to know if your DRBD and OCFS2 disk fault tolerance has been setup correctly but the configuration options are overwhelming. Solution: See
How to install LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql (MariaDB) and PHP on Debian
Here is a link on how to install LAMP on a Debian server: Solution: Follow this article straight from the Debian website: https://wiki.debian.org/LaMp#Installation
How to check what version of Linux Mint you are running
To see which version of Linux Mint you are using, issue the following command: user@host ~ $ cat /etc/issue Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa \n \l