
How to use dpkg to compare two Linux servers
While we mainly install, remove, update and otherwise manage software on Debian and Ubuntu based systems using apt-get, the lower level packaging system that apt-get actually relies on is dpkg.

While we mainly install, remove, update and otherwise manage software on Debian and Ubuntu based systems using apt-get, the lower level packaging system that apt-get actually relies on is dpkg.
The ntop utility is like top for networking. Whereas top shows running processes ntop shows network connections. It can …
The unrar program, which serves to open and extract popular .rar archives, is often available for install from …
BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution, and it was a UNIX software compilation released by the Computer Software …
7zip is a versatile open source file archiver that uses the high compression 7z archive format, but also supports many …
RAR is a popular proprietary file format and software for compressing and archiving files, known for its ability to span …
Linux allows you to pause a running process rather than quitting or killing it. Pausing a process just suspends all of …
Changing the hostname in FreeBSD is very simple. It can be done immediately using the hostname command while logged in …
Finding out sizes of files and directories in Linux is done using the du command, which estimates their disk space …

The chmod and chown commands are used to control access to files in UNIX and Linux systems. The chmod command stands for …