Linux Tips & Tricks

This Page contains various Tips and tricks in Linux. I will try to keep on updating this page with new tricks and tips

Tip: Compile Apache Http Server from Source

Tip: Compiling Tomcat Connectors for Apache Http Server

Tip: Installing Apache Portable Runtime (APR) For Tomcat

Tip: Working with History

Tip: File Time Stamps

Tip: Empty a File

Tip: Create ISO Images & Mount an ISO image under linux

Tip: Find Examples

Tip: Process Based Commands

Tip: Add a secondary IP address

Tip: Find out what partition a File belongs

Tip: Run a Process On Specific Processor In Linux

Tip: su vs su-

Tip: How do I find how many files an application is using?

Tip: Why 'du','df' and 'ls' show different results for the same disk block

Tip: Configuring Services to start at boot time

Tip: Hardware Information In Linux

Tip: Terminal Key Board Shortcuts

Tip: Commands on Commands

Tip: Halt, Reboot & Power off

Tip: Getent in Linux

Tip: Check The Multi Cast Address Subscribed

Tip: Hardware Clock

Tip: Mounting a NTFS file system

Tip: Use shopt In Linux

Tip: Push and Pop Directories on to Stack

Tip: Using CDPATH

Tip: Backup an RPM Database in Red Hat Linux

Tip: Configuring Services to start after boot in Linux

Tip: CPU Information

Tip: Find Files Opened by an application

Tip: Search History

Tip: Java.net.socketException: To many open files

Tip: Make a User to Change his password for the first time he logs in

Tip: Recording a Shell Session

Tip: Find and Kill a Process

Tip: Time Out automatically to log out users

Tip: More DU & DF Commands

Tip: Cannot Execute Binary File

Tip: Working Directory Of a Current Process

Tip: Solving “Out of Socket Memory”

Tip: Hot Plug a CPU in Linux

Tip: Uptime explained

Tip: Linux Environment Variable

Tip: Terminal Keyboard Shortcuts

Tip: Files Opened By Application

Tip: Why 'du', 'df', and 'ls' show different result for the same disk block

Tip: Find Out What Partition a File Belongs To

Tip: Linux: Cannot Execute Binary File

Tip: Shadow File In Linux

Tip: Run a Process On Specific Processor In Linux

Tip: Use Full Commands 

Tip: Search History

Tip: Memory Used By a program

Tip: Find Out How Much Time the Command Or Code was taking, or Running?

Tip: enable multi cast to IP address

Tip: Determine the Files Causing The Volumes to Fill Up fast

Tip: LSOF : Cant Identify Protocol

Tip: Recover Accidently Deleted Files from Linux

Tip: Total Number Of Threads In a Linux Process

Tip: Pause and Continue a Process

Tip: A Few More Commands

Tip: Here Document & Here String

Tip: File Descriptors In Linux

Tip: Controlling Resources

Tip: Tunable Linux Kernel Parameters

Tip: Flush Memory

Tip: Magic SysRq 

Tip: Solving Out of Socket memory

Tip: Defunct Process

Tip: Analyze netstat Ouput
Tip: Close Permissions
Tip: Physical Cable Connection

More to Come, Happy Tips