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.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Python on Debian 11 Bullseye. One option is to install from the Debian repository with apt command, or we can manually install the latest official release of Python from Python.org. We’ll cover both methods below. Install From Debian Repo This is the easiest method, but you …
There are several ways to view your system’s IP address in Ubuntu. In this tutorial, you will learn how to find your IP address from the command line and GUI. These instructions have been verified to work on the most recent LTS Ubuntu versions: Ubuntu 22.04 Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 18.04 How to find my IP …
Pacman is the default package manager for Arch Linux and its derivative Linux distributions like Manjaro and EndeavourOS. In this tutorial, we will show the useful pacman commands that allow us to list installed packages. Listing Installed Packages Example 1. To list all the installed packages with pacman: $ pacman -Q Example 2. To check …
In this tutorial, you will learn how to mount an ISO file in the Xfce desktop environment on Linux. The Xfce GUI doesn’t always have a native way to mount ISO files, so we will be adding this option to our system in the following steps. Note that you can alternatively mount an ISO file …
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 …
