If you are a Beginner in Linux, this post will help you to learn Linux commands in just 3 simple steps. Nowadays most of the Linux flavored desktop like Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Suse etc. are coming with very interactive user friendly graphical user interface (GUI). Using Linux GUI is similar to use other graphical user…
I wondered when I had to find the USB device name in Linux using shell script (shell command), it was little tricky, specially in case of UDEV. You can use different methods to get this like using udevinfo command, from sysfs, from /var/log/messages. Using udevinfo: for DEV in /dev/sd*; do udevinfo -q env -n $DEV…
A backdrop of stars Difficulty: Easy Application: KStars You may already have played with KStars, but how about creating a KStars backdrop image that’s updated every time you start up? KStars can be run with the –dump switch, which dumps out an image from your startup settings, but doesn’t load the GUI at all. You…
From http://www.cstrike-planet.com: On this page we will explain how to install Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source. We assume you have some Linux knowledge. We will start with Counter-Strike: Source. Installing Counter-Strike: Source (SRCDS) First, lets create a directory where we will run the hldsupdatetool, run the following command: code: mkdir srcds Now we switch to the…
There is a new Linux distribution released almost every week, sometimes, even every day. The latest is one called Stella, and the first version is Stella 6.3. Stella is a desktop-focused remix of CentOS, and Stella 6.3 is based on CentOS 6.3. If you are familiar with CentOS, you know that out of the box,…
Gaming on Linux? A few years ago this would only be said as a joke. Thankfully for us, Linux gaming has evolved offering some mature open source games, as well as some very nice commercial games. Let’s try and find out what are the best 10 games a Linux gamer must play this year… Oil…
Most of you are very familiar with ping command which is most commonly used to check any network device is alive or not. A very simple and useful command. And if we can add date/time stamp in it, it will be more helpful to generate a good statistics. It is very easy in Linux without…
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1. First step is to create a special FIFO file using mkfifo command, where you want to see the packet capture using WireShark. This file will use to read & write simultaneously using WireShark & tcpdump. mkfifo /tmp/packet_capture 2. Second give the following ssh command on your terminal, to start the tcpdump on remote PC.…
Few interesting commands which can be used to send the messages on other terminal or network: 1. wall: This command is used to broadcast a message on all terminals. For e.g.: wall “Hello, message testing” or cat msg.txt | wall 2. write: This command is used to send message to a user & selected terminal…
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