Category Archives: Tutorials

dhcp

Setting up your Linux box to serve as a DHCP server or a DHCP client

DHCP is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It is used to control vital networking parameters of hosts (running clients) with the help of a server. DHCP is backward compatible with BOOTP….

linux directory structure

Beginners guide to Linux directory structure

Have you ever looked in your / directory, you’ll see a lot of directories. Here we are presenting beginners guide to linux directory structure explaining what they mean and what…

fstab fsck

A complete fstab guide

Wherever you stand on your linux learning curve, you will have to deal with fstab one day or the other. Fstab file is edited to configure filesystems. The process is…

ffmpeg

A complete ffmpeg tutorial

Introduction ffmpeg is a very fast video and audio converter that can also grab from a live audio/video source. It can also convert between arbitrary sample rates and resize video…

ssl certificate

Protect your web server with SSL certificate

If you are a system administrator who is running a web server then you may want to protect it so that no one can hack into it and misuse the…

Reference in Perl

Reference in Perl

Introduction References are the most important feature of Perl which helps in creating complex data structures. This tutorial is aimed for a complete newbie in Perl. We will start with…

read csv file perl

How to read a CSV file in Perl?

Perl is used for manipulating text files and in this article I will teach how to read a CSV file in Perl? First of all let’s start with What is…

FileSystem

Types of Filesystem, differences and dealing with them using Perl

If you are looking to write code in Perl which will work on multiple platforms then you must have the knowledge of filesystem of each platform. Filesystems are categoriesed in…

permissions_diagram

Understanding file permissions and access rights in Linux

In Linux everything is a file. To set access rights on the specific files we use chmod command. To see what are the access rights/ permissions of a specific file…