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Sometimes you require a certain file from a Debian .deb package. For example, because you accidentally deleted a file. Or…

If you have a directory with many files (a few thousand in my case) and need to know which one…

Running a nightly backup script on a server system, such as a web hosting server, can result in a heavy…

In this short article, I explain how to disable IPv6 in the Debian 10 network stack. Why would one want…

The following command can be used to check and repair all MySQL databases on a Ubuntu or Debian Linux System.…

This short tutorial describes the steps to optimize the performance of a MySQL database with the mysqltuner script. This tool…

This short guide shows you how to get a list of all installed Packages on Debian Linux. Packages on Debian…

Jailkit is an easy-to-use tool to create and maintain jail environments for shell users on Linux. In this guide, I…