Articles marked as System Administration are usually geared towards Linux security, networking, server configuration, virtualization, and similar topics.
At Linux Nightly, we’re always auditing our Linux servers and desktops, and looking for ways to improve performance and security. In these guides, we share some of the helpful things we’ve learned.
After installing OpenLiteSpeed or LiteSpeed web server on Linux, you may be wondering how to log in to the admin panel. In this tutorial, you will learn how to generate a username and password and log in to the admin panel of OpenLiteSpeed web server. There is no default password for the admin page of …
Nginx is a free and open source web server. It can also be used as a reverse proxy, HTTP cache, and load balancer. In this article, we will learn how to restart Nginx in Linux. Before restarting Nginx, you can check its status with the following command: $ sudo systemctl status nginx Alternatively, you can …
AlmaLinux and other RHEL-based Linux distributions use firewalld to manage firewall rules. Note that firewalld is simply a frontend for iptables, which is the system firewall baked directly into the Linux kernel. firewalld makes firewall rules easier to manage by setting up “zones.” In this tutorial, you will see how to disable or enable the …
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By default, Kali Linux doesn’t give us the option to log in to the GUI with the root account. If you want to circumvent this security recommendation and use the GUI with your root account, follow the steps below. Step 1. We can install the kali-root-login package with the apt command: $ sudo apt update …
In this tutorial, you will learn how to change the keyboard layout on Ubuntu 22.04 from GUI and command line. This is handy for users that wish to type in multiple languages. Change Keyboard Language via GUI Step 1. Open Settings from Ubuntu’s Activities menu. Step 2. Open the the keyboard tab. In the Input …
The majority of Linux distributions rely on Systemd to manage all of the daemons and services running on a system. Systemd allows users to manage and administer system services, mainly through use of the systemctl command. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use systemd to manage and interact with services on Linux. Check …
The AUR (Arch User Repository) is one of the most alluring features of Arch Linux, and its derivative Linux distributions like Manjaro. Normally, new software would be downloaded via pacman on Arch and Manjaro. When software isn’t available in official repositories, users can turn to the AUR, where they’re likely to find what they’re looking …
In this tutorial, we will learn how to control startup programs in Ubuntu, either by adding or removing them to start up automatically upon boot. To configure your startup applications, follow the steps below. Adding a Startup App Before we continue with the following steps, we need to know the path of the applications to …
In this tutorial, we will learn how to get the information of our private and public IP addresses on Kali Linux via command line terminal and GUI. If you’re wondering what the difference is between a private and a public IP address, the answer is very simple. A private IP address is one that is …
There are times when we’re not happy with the programs we download and install and want to completely remove them from the system. In this tutorial, we will learn how to remove a package from Manjaro using pacman and GUI method. Uninstall/Remove Package To remove a package on Manjaro, you can simply use the pacman …
