1. What is motd and how it works

The motd file, which stands for "message of the day," , functions as a system-wide file that shows a static or dynamically created message to users at the time of their login but before their shell starts. It's used by administrators to share important information...

This article will delve into the install of motionEye on a raspberry pi 3B running Arch Linux Arm. motionEye is a web frontend to the motion daemon a versatile tool for video surveillance that monitors video signals from many types of cameras and performs actions upon movement detection.

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Sometimes we need to read the content of compressed files without extracting them, especially when dealing with large documents like plain text logs. In this case the amount of time and resources taken for decompression can be bothersome. The appropriate tools are located in /bin directory :

ls /b...

Init, short for "initialization," is the first process the Linux kernel starts after booting. It is responsible for bringing the system to a usable state by starting system processes, running startup scripts, and managing runlevels. SysvInit, Systemd, and OpenRC are the different and most used init...

dmesg command displays messages retrieved from the kernel ring buffer during boot. It contains a lot of useful informations about hardware, kernel modules and device drivers. In case of hardware failure, the dmesg gives all required informations. It is frequently combined with commands such as grep,...