A performance test will put load on your Linux machine and stress test components like the CPU, memory, and hard drive. The stress Linux command is an ideal utility to put load on a computer and push your hardware to its limits. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and use the stress …
pip is the package installer for Python. On Linux, pip allows for easy installation of Python programs and dependencies. For Python developers, pip is an essential tool. In the context of Kali Linux, pip is mostly used for hacking scripts or to download dependencies that hacking scripts rely on. Even if you don’t write Python …
In this tutorial, we will learn how to update the system time and time zone on Ubuntu Linux. This can be done from the command line terminal with the timedatectl command to synchronize your system’s time with official time servers. Update System Time To update the system time in Ubuntu, you can use the timedatectl …
wget is a command line tool created by the GNU Proyect and is used for downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. In this article, we will look at some useful commands that can be used with wget to download files from the web. Downloading a File To download a file with wget, simply specify the …
dnf is a package management tool used for RPM-based Linux distributions like Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and others. In this article, we will show the useful dnf commands that allow us to list installed packages. Listing Installed Packages Example 1. List all installed packages with dnf command: $ dnf list installed Example …
Renaming files is one of the most fundamental tasks on a Linux system. On the command line, the mv (move) command is used not only to move files to different locations, but also to rename them. In this tutorial, you will see how to use the mv command to rename files and folders on Linux. …
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 install Google Chrome on Manjaro. Google Chrome is available in the Arch User Repostiroy (AUR) so we can install it from there by either downloading and compiling it, or using an AUR helper like yay or pamac as you’ll see below. Installing Google Chrome From AUR Step …
