Archives for September 2022

IIS is an extensible web server developed by Microsoft. Below are some of the features of the IIS web server. HTTP/2: HTTP/2 requests are now faster than ever. This feature is active by default with IIS 10.0 on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10. IIS on Nano Server: IIS is easy and quick to install […]

Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM) is a customer-driven, end-to-end solution that provides subscription status and management tools and integrates with Red Hat’s system management tools. If you encounter the below error while running the subscription-manager command: subscription-manager: command not found you may install the subscription-manager package as per your choice of distribution. Distribution Command CentOS […]

Dandified YUM or DNF is the name of the package management utility. DNF is the next-generation version of YUM. It’s used in RPM-based distributions. DNF was introduced in Fedora 18, and has been the default package manager for Fedora since version 22. In fact, when we run YUM commands in later releases of Fedora, we […]

Dandified YUM or DNF is the name of the package management utility. DNF is the next-generation version of YUM. It’s used in RPM-based distributions. DNF was introduced in Fedora 18, and has been the default package manager for Fedora since version 22. In fact, when we run YUM commands in later releases of Fedora, we […]

The smartmontools project produces a SMART monitoring daemon called smartd and a command-line utility called smartctl, which can do most things on demand that the daemon does in the background periodically. With these tools, along with standard Linux filesystem utilities such as debugfs and tune2fs, there aren’t many hard drive issues you can’t fix. But […]

The S2I toolkit produces ready-to-run images by injecting source files into a running instance of a builder base image, with scripts in the builder image turning that source code into a runnable application. From the container the build process was run in, a runnable application image is then created. The command-line tool that drives the […]

wifi-menu allows to interactively connect to a wireless network on INTERFACE using a netctl profile. In case no netctl profile is available, one can be generated. If only one wireless interface is available, INTERFACE can be omitted. wifi-menu is only able to generate netctl profiles for simple network configurations. Profiles for more complex configurations must […]

If you’ve done any work in the Microsoft Windows world, no doubt you’ve used zip files. It became such a popular feature that Microsoft eventually incorporated it into the Windows operating system starting with XP. The zip utility allows you to easily compress large files (both text and executable) into smaller files that take up […]

Unzipping is the process of taking a single compressed archive and extracting the files and folders from within. As we already have a zip file, we need to extract the files first, also called uncompressing them. The command to uncompress a zip file is unzip, as follows: % unzip –help UnZip 6.00 of 20 April […]

bc is a calculator scripting language. Scripts in bc can be executed with the bc command. Imagine a test.bc file contains the following code: scale = 2; (10.0*2+2)/7; That means you can run bc like this: $ cat test.bc | bc 3.14 bc can do far more than just divide two numbers. It’s a fully-fledged […]