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How To Find Out My NIC Speed ?

by lifeLinux on November 6, 2011

Q. How do I find out my NIC speed in Linux ? A. Use ethtool or mii-tool to display or change ethernet card settings. ethtool To display duplex speed of eth0, type the following command # ethtool eth0

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How To Configure Static IP Address On CentOS

by lifeLinux on September 16, 2011

Configure a static IP address on CentOS is quite easy. In this article, I’ll show you how to do it through command line.

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How To Restart Networking Service In Linux

by lifeLinux on September 16, 2011

How to start/stop/restart networking service under Linux operating systems after making changes to IP configuration from a shell prompt ?

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How To Limit CPU Usage Per Process In Linux

by lifeLinux on September 13, 2011

To limit CPU usage per process in Linux, you can use cpulimit. It is a simple program which attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don’t want them to eat too much cpu. It does not act on the nice […]

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How To Detect Hardware Errors On Linux

by lifeLinux on September 9, 2011

A Machine Check Exception (MCE) is a type of computer hardware error that occurs when a computer’s central processing unit detects a hardware problem. On Linux, a process (such as mcelog ) writes a message to the kernel log and/or the console screen.

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10 Linux Find Command Examples

by lifeLinux on September 8, 2011

The Linux find command is very powerful. It can search the entire filesystem to find files or directories according to the search criteria that you specify. In this article, I’ll show 10 examples of Linux find command that will be very useful to both newbies and experts.

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Linux Shutdown Command

by lifeLinux on August 24, 2011

shutdown command brings the system down in a secure way. All logged-in users are notified that the system is going down, and login is blocked. It is possible to shut the system down immediately or after a specified delay. All processes are first notified that the system is going down by the signal SIGTERM. This […]

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