An IP address determines the name and network location of a computer on the Internet. The network stack reuses this IP address at all layers, including the application layer. As a consequence, ...

You can check user groups in Linux with commands like groups, id, getent, and /etc/group to manage permissions easily.

Get to know the Linux hosts file and how to use it Your email has been sent If you're new to Linux, there's a very handy file you'll want to learn about right away. Jack Wallen introduces you to the ...

You can now access most of your Android phone's files from the Linux Terminal app, starting in Android 16 QPR2.

In this step-by-step guide from Jack Wallen, learn how to access and modify the Linux hosts file to control the mapping of hostnames to IP addresses. At some point in your career as a developer, ...

Newcomers to Linux, especially those coming from a Windows background, often find files in the /etc directory to be difficult to understand. In this article, I provide a brief explanation of some of ...

The Linux host command can retrieve a lot of useful information from the domain name service, but has a lot of options that you need to understand to get started. The host command on Linux systems can ...

IBM last week announced a plan to create “virtual servers” for corporate users connected to mainframes running in its data centers, provided that the users are willing to run applications on a Linux ...

I have a virtual server running under some old version of Linux that is now end of life. So poor Linux distro selection skills back in 2017... I'm now in the process of moving ~ 7 websites that are ...

A compromise of the kernel.org servers that host Linux kernel development lasted from 2009 well into 2011, with a rootkit known as Phalanx being used to effect entry, the Slovakian security firm ESET ...