Linux Basics

How To Choose an Effective Backup Strategy — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Choose an Effective Backup Strategy

When dealing with any kind of important data, it is essential that you implement a backup scheme. There are many different ways to back up data on a VPS. In this guide, we will discuss some ways that you can backup your data and discuss the merits of the different options.

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Comment modifier le fichier Sudoers — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Comment modifier le fichier Sudoers

Sudo est une commande pratique qui vous permet d’exécuter des commandes avec des privilèges qui ne sont généralement pas de la portée de votre utilisateur. Ce guide vous apprendra à modifier le fichier de configuration et à personnaliser ainsi le fonctionnement de sudo.

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How to Perform Server-Side OCR on PDFs and Images — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Perform Server-Side OCR on PDFs and Images

Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is primarily used to turn text from scanned images into embedded text. Many modern desktop and mobile applications and scanner software stacks have some OCR functionality built in, and most circulating PDFs have text embedded. However, you may still encounter documents or images that contain significant amounts of non-embedded text which cannot be automatically extracted. This tutorial will cover setting up an OCR pipeline.

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How To Send E-Mail Alerts on a CentOS VPS for System Monitoring — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Send E-Mail Alerts on a CentOS VPS for System Monitoring

In this article, we learn how to simply send e-mail alerts on a VPS and talk about various triggers that can be set to establish better overall security and to maintain a smooth running system. We go through the basics of e-mail, the necessary applications, along with examples of various e-mail alert triggers.

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Cómo configurar claves de SSH en CentOS 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Cómo configurar claves de SSH en CentOS 8

SSH, o shell seguro, es un protocolo cifrado que se usa para administrar servidores y comunicarse con ellos. Al trabajar con un servidor de CentOS, es probable que pase la mayor parte de su tiempo en una sesión de terminal conectada a su servidor a través de SSH. En esta…

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Настройка ключей SSH в Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Настройка ключей SSH в Ubuntu 16.04

SSH или защищенная оболочка — это шифрованный протокол, используемый для администриования и связи с серверами. При работе с сервером Ubuntu вы проведете больше всего времени в сеансах терминала с подключением к серверу через SSH. В этом обучающем модуле мы расскажем о настройке…

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How To Set Up Time Synchronization on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up Time Synchronization on Ubuntu 12.04

This tutorial covers how to set up time synchronization and ensure that servers are synced using the NTP protocol so that all servers are displaying the same time. When a server’s time is mismatched, emails sent out from the misconfigured server may arrive 3 minutes in the past on another, or users granted access only at certain times of the day may find themselves blocked.

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How To Understand the Filesystem Layout in a Linux VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Understand the Filesystem Layout in a Linux VPS

Finding your way around a Linux filesystem can be confusing if you are unfamiliar with the operating system. However, to get anything useful done, it is necessary to have a basic understanding of how Linux organizes its file tree. In this guide, we will explore how Linux divides up its filesystem and how to find your way around.

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Cómo usar Find y Locate para buscar archivos en Linux — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Cómo usar Find y Locate para buscar archivos en Linux

Buscar archivos es una tarea frecuente en cualquier sistema operativo. Los comandos “find” y “locate” de Linux se pueden utilizar para buscar archivos en el sistema de archivos. En este guía, se explicará cómo utilizar estas dos herramientas para hacer consultas específicas para los archivos.

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