Linux Command Line Guide

For those who new to world of Linux, and overwhelmed by CLI. I have a Command Line "Cheat Sheet" that might be what you looking for.

Compression tar cf file.tar files – create a tar named file.tar containing files tar xf file.tar – extract the files from file.tar tar cf file.tar.gz files – create a tar with Gzip compression tar xf file.tar.gz – extract a tar using Gzip tar cf file.tar.bz2 – create a tar with Bzip2 compression

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Real Time Proxy Server Monitoring

Monitoring proxy server access is really important for network admin, and this is true for any network administrator from as simple as Internet Cafe, Government Organization, Educational Institution or even Home network. In this article I’ll be using squid as my proxy server, so you’ll need to install special software to monitor your proxy server.

So I assume you already have squid installed as proxy server on your machine, and run without any trouble. You need to install a software called sqstat that will monitor your squid access in real time.

Steps to install and configure sqstat:

Download sqstat packet
[root@rendy ~]# wget http://samm.kiev.ua/sqstat/sqstat-1.20.tar.gz
Extract sqstat

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