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How To Flush The Entire Contents Of Memcache Server

by lifeLinux on January 28, 2012

If you use Memcached server to store application data, you may want to invalidate it once you deploy a new version to avoid corruption or weird results… In this article, I’ll show you How do I flush the entire contents of a Memcached server ?

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How To Backup & Restore Master Boot Record (MBR) In Linux

by lifeLinux on August 22, 2011

A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector popularized by the IBM Personal Computer. It consists of a sequence of 512 bytes located at the first sector of a data storage device such as a hard disk. MBRs are usually placed on storage devices intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems.

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How To Extract RAR Files Under Linux

by lifeLinux on May 30, 2011

RAR stands for Roshal ARchive. It is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error recovery, and file spanning. It was developed by a Russian software engineer, Eugene Roshal (the first letter of his surname contributing to the name of the archive format), and is currently licensed by win.rar GmbH.

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Linux Password Protect Files

by lifeLinux on May 27, 2011

If you store private information on your Linux system and you want to prevent other people who use the system from viewing your private files, you need to password protect these files. Solution is to use following commands to encrypt or decrypt files with a password.

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How To Find Hard Drive Specifications

by lifeLinux on May 19, 2011

There are many tools to get hard drive information such as smartctl, hdparm, hwinfo… In this article, i will use hdparm command which provides a command line interface to various hard disk ioctls supported by the stock Linux ATA/IDE device driver subsystem.

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10 lsof Command Examples

by lifeLinux on May 14, 2011

The lsof command or “list open files” command in Linux is a powerful tool. In Linux and Unix everything behind the scenes are just files. This includes IP sockets, pipes, unix sockets, directories, devices, even inodes are just files. This means that lsof can actually tell you a lot of information of what is going […]

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How To Install Monit On Centos / Redhat

by lifeLinux on May 13, 2011

What is Monit ? Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

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