Tag Archives: Linux

Ubuntu: How to View the Current Date and Time via Command Line

If you are working on an Ubuntu server installation that comes in the command line only variation, you might at any point in time want to see just what exactly the server’s time is currently set to. Continue reading

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Download Webpages with Wget for Windows

Now for those of you who would like to use something like this little robust, command line and self terminating application for a scheduled task on your great big Windows Server or desktop machine, rejoice because someone has gone to the effort and created a great little port project that offers you a complete wget package for Windows, even going so far as giving you a proper installer to drop everything in its right place. Continue reading

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Ubuntu: Installing a Software Application from a Terminal

Installing a new software package via a command line terminal in Ubuntu is deceptively easy thanks to the powerful apt-get command that is used as the interface into Ubuntu’s Advanced Packaging Tool (APT). Continue reading

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Ubuntu: Restart the SMS Server Tools 3 (SMS3) Service

SMS Server Tools 3 or SMS3 is a great piece of SMS Gateway open source software that allows you to send and receive short SMS messages through any number of GSM modem types or mobile phones. Continue reading

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Ubuntu: List Running Services from a Terminal

Anyway, today’s quickfire post is simply to remind you how to pull up a list of all the services currently running on your Ubuntu machine via a terminal command line. Continue reading

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