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At times when you want to provide remote access to your system via SSH, you want a customized message to be displayed on the terminal for the remotely logged-in user. In this tutorial, I will show you how to show a custom text message on SSH login on your Linux server.

It is very important that your installed operating system has the correct date and time. Many processes on your CentOS system, e.g. cronjobs, depend on the correct date and time settings. In this tutorial, we will show you two different ways to set the date and time in CentOS 8.

A symbolic link also known as a soft link is a kind of a pointer that points to the location of a folder or a file on your system. This guide shows you various methods to list symbolic links on Linux.

The User ID or UID in Linux is a unique entity through which a user is identified on a system. Every user on a Linux system has a dedicated UID. This guide shows you 5 different ways to find the UID of a user on Linux.

The drives on any system can either be mounted or unmounted. The mounted drives are the ones that are ready to be accessed at any time whereas the data residing on the unmounted drives can only be accessed after these drives are mounted. In the proceeding section of this article, we want to share with you the different methods of displaying all available drives on Linux.

Everybody should be concerned about their privacy and security in this day and age. It is a common misconception that if you are running Linux you do not need to concern yourselves with privacy and security issues. In this article, you will learn about best practices that you can follow to avoid privacy risks and leaks.

Psensor is a very useful utility for Linux-based systems that shows the values of the various sensors that are mounted on your mainboard. It is capable of displaying the temperature of the various components of your CPU, the rotation speed of your fans as well as your CPU usage.

Redis is a well-known open-source data structure store that stores data in memory and is commonly used as a database. In this guide, you will learn how we can get Redis server installed on Ubuntu 20.04.

Today, I will show you how you can check the TLS/SSL certificate expiration date of an SSL certificate of a website using OpenSSL on Ubuntu 20.04.

In this article, we are going to explore various methods that can be used to view or monitor log files in real-time. We have executed all the commands on Debian 10.

Traefik is a modern reverse proxy and load balancing server that supports layer 4 (TCP) and layer 7 (HTTP) load balancing. This article will demonstrate how to use Traefik load balancer in layer 7 (HTTP) mode.

Steam Locomotive is a fun utility for Linux-based systems to alert users to a very common mistake they make when typing the “ls” command. Let’s now see how we can install this utility on an Ubuntu 20.04 system.

There are mainly two ways to upgrade Ubuntu, one is the GUI-based update manager and the other is the command-based one. In this article, I will show you step-by-step how to upgrade your Ubuntu system via command-line and via GUI.

Signal is a cross-platform messaging and video calling application. This article will talk about the installation procedure of the Signal messenger’s desktop version on a Linux Mint 20 system.

Go is one of the latest open source programming languages that is used to do memory management safely and also helps in dealing with garbage collection gracefully. This article shows you how you can install the Go language (compiler and build tools) on an Ubuntu 20.04 system.

This tutorial shows how to install Glances system monitoring Tool on Ubuntu and CentOS and how to use it to monitor Linux system metrics locally and over a network connection.

The date command is a command-line utility for displaying or setting date and time in the Linux system. It uses the system default time zone to display the time. In this article, I will show you 12 examples of how to best use the date command on Linux.

Kodi is a cross-platform media player used for media streaming on all kinds of screens whether they are large TV screens or very compact mobile screens. In this article, I will show you how to install Kodi on a Linux Mint 20 desktop.

With the cron daemon, you can specify the time at which a process, such as a maintenance or a backup job, should be executed. This way, you can automate these tasks to run later without manual intervention. This article explains how you can do this with Crontab in Ubuntu.

Git is a widely used OpenSource version control system for software development. It has been initially developed by Linus Torvalds and is e.g. used to manage the source code of the Linux kernel. In this article, you will learn how to install and configure Git on Ubuntu 20.04 via the Command line.