How to keep a script running even after logging out of the system

There are times when we need to do some job or run some script which takes a lot of time. During this the connection can get aborted which results in the job getting killed. There is simple solution for this,...

Using Vagrant to create virtual machines with Virtual Box

I’m a Linux System Admin & I play with lots of virtual machines to try & test various software & services. I use Virtual Box for creating virtual machine. Everything works fine except the part of installing same virtual machine...

SD MMC MS-Pro card reader not working on DELL INSPIRON 15R 5520

Not sure how many of you’ve come across this, but for me this was unusual. Usually Ubuntu has great compatibility built out of the box. All the wifi,graphics etc are picked on boot. But when I inserted my SD card...

CentOS / Redhat : Configure CentOS as a Software Router with two interfaces

Linux can be easily configured to share an internet connection using iptables. All you need to have is, two network interface cards as follows: a) Your internal (LAN) network connected via eth0 with static ip address 192.168.0.1 b) Your external...

CentOS | RHEL: Check If A Service Is Running Or Not

We can use service command to get the status of services running on the system. It runs a System V init script in as predictable environment as possible, removing most environment variables and with current working directory set to /. Syntax...