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Searching for Content in Files Using grep

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The term grep means to globally search for a regular expression and print all lines containing it. When you use the grep command every line containing a specified character pattern prints to the screen. Using the grep command does not change file con… more »

umask and How It Works

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  The umask is a value that determines the default permission settings assigned when new files and directories are created.Each UNIX system has a default umask value; each user can change his or her own umask value (and usually does so at login time in… more »

using fuser Instead of ps

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Here is an alternative way to get the process ID (PID) of a particular process. The fuser command is more reliable and can be quicker than ps. /usr/sbin/fuser files /usr/sbin/fuser /bin/bash The fuser command outputs the PIDs of all processes that ar… more »

Unix Disabling Daemons / services from inetd.conf

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Tune your system more by disabling all unwanted and unused daemons from running on the system. This can be done by  editing the /etc/inetd.conf file and the rc files or directories. Modify the /etc/inetd.conf file and disable unnecessary daemons runnin… more »

Unix Disabling Daemons / services from inetd.conf

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Tune your system more by disabling all unwanted and unused daemons from running on the system. This can be done by  editing the /etc/inetd.conf file and the rc files or directories. Modify the /etc/inetd.conf file and disable unnecessary daemons runnin… more »