Here we’re going to cover how to find out what is using disk space in Linux with the ‘du’ disk usage command.
This command is extremely useful for tracking down large files, allowing you to find large files and free up precious disk space.
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The Difference Between su and sudo Commands In Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on April 26, 2017
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“What is the difference between the su and sudo commands?” Is a question commonly asked to those new to *nix based operating systems that we’ll explain and answer here.
In order to discuss the differences, let’s first establish what each command actually does with some examples.
How To Disable Specific Package Updates In RHEL/CentOS Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on April 19, 2017
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We can exclude a list of packages from being installed or updating from all repositories by specifying that we want to exclude them in the yum.conf file.
This will prevent yum from updating these packages and all future updates will be ignored as we will see here.
11 rm Command Examples For Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on April 12, 2017
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The ‘rm’ command is used to delete files and directories, rm comes from the GNU Coreutils package and should be available by default in Unix/Linux based operating systems.
By the end of this guide you should know how to use rm to remove files and directories in Linux by following these practical examples.
Where Is The php.ini Configuration File In CentOS?
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on April 5, 2017
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How can we find the default configuration files for the PHP packages in CentOS Linux?
By using the RPM command we can query a package to find all of its associated configuration files. Failing that we can use the find command to search the file system for these files, as we will see here.
Finally we’ll cover how we can use a phpinfo file to show us which configuration file is in use.
How To Start GUI In CentOS 7 Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on March 30, 2017
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By default a full installation of CentOS 7 will have the graphical user interface (GUI) installed and it will load up at boot, however it is possible that the system has been configured to not boot into the GUI.
In this quick guide we will show you how to swap to the GUI and enable it to start up by default on system boot.
How To Setup A LAMP Web Server With CentOS 7 Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on March 22, 2017
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With the correct packages we can quickly setup a simple CentOS 7 server to run a full LAMP stack.
This will turn our Linux system into a web server capable of serving out dynamic content from a database back end.
Where Is The Apache Configuration File In CentOS?
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on March 15, 2017
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How can we find where the default configuration files for the httpd package in CentOS are located?
By using the RPM command we can query a package to find all of its associated configuration files. Failing that we can use the find command to search the file system for these files, as we will see here.
How To Disable The Firewall In CentOS 7 Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on March 8, 2017
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Default installations of the CentOS 7 Linux operating system have the firewalld firewall installed and enabled by default as a security measure, but how can we disable it?
In this quick guide we will show you how to disable both firewalld or iptables in CentOS 7 through the command line.
How To Upgrade PHP 5.6 to 7.1 in CentOS 7 Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on March 5, 2017
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In this post I’ll show you how to upgrade PHP 5.6 to 7.1 in CentOS 7 Linux. I performed this process today on this server and wanted to document the problems that I had along the way, along with relevant fixes.