Archive for 'GNU/Linux' Category
Using iostat To Monitor Disk Activity
30 May 2007iostat is a good utility which helps you in monitoring the disk activity in GNU/Linux systems.
Let’s see the various ways in which we can use this.
When the command iostat is issued by itself it displays both the average cpu usage and the disk activity.
$ iostat
Linux 2.6.15-28-386 (linuxer-laptop) Wednesday 30 May 2007
avg-cpu: […]
Using vmstat to measure CPU Performance
29 May 2007When you use GNU/Linux, you have plenty of tools at your disposal to measure system performance. vmstat is one such tool albiet a very powerful one.
Let’s see how we can measure the CPU performance using vmstat.
When you execute vmstat by itself without any options, it shows the average values of the statistics since system reboot.
$ […]
Network Exploration Using NmapFE
16 November 2006Introduction
nmap is a free utility which is used to scan large as well as small networks to determine the services running, operating systems used, application versions etc. It proves to be a very effective tool that can be used by anyone to explore their network.
nmapfe is a GTK+ graphical front end to nmap. We look […]
Accessing GNU/Linux Systems Remotely
6 October 2006It is not infrequent that you may have a need to access your GNU/Linux desktop remotely. In such cases VNC comes to the rescue.
We’ll just look at how easily you can access your remote desktops.
I’ll be using Gentoo GNU/Linux system as the client system and Suse GNU/Linux is the system I want to access remotely
Just […]
Mount FTP Servers using FUSE and CurlFtpFS
28 September 2006FUSE makes it possible to implement filesystems in userspace. Currently it supports Linux Kernel 2.4 and 2.6. There are a plenty of projects that use FUSE to implement custom filesystems. We’ll be using one such project which is CurlFtpFS.
FUSE and CurlFtpFS makes it possible to access remote FTP servers as local directories on your system […]