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sysbench is a benchmark suite which allows you to quickly get an impression about system performance which is important if you plan to run a database under intensive load. This article explains how to benchmark your CPU, file IO, and MySQL performance with sysbench. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for …

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Lets say we need to add a new user and grand him root privileges.

There are several ways to improve how you troubleshoot a system. One of the things I consider to be important is the BASH history. Here you can see what commands were executed. Though as default you can’t see when, or ignore certain things, like duplicate commands. Here’s a little guide to show you how.

To extract an archive to a directory different from the current, use the -C, or –directory, tar option, as in #tar -xf archive.tar -C /target/directory

crontab command