I had been running a few Centos 6 servers just past their EOL (30th November 2020) and it was time to kick in to action a plan I had been working on when I realised EOL was on my doorstep. A month or so beforehand, I started researching options to upgrade to Centos 7.  Okay initially I wanted to jump Centos 7 and charge in to Centos 8 which had a planned EOL of 2029.  CentOS 8 had been stable for well over a year.  Not bad, closer to two years would have been...

This page shows a growing list of common commands for viewing and managing your Centos server. ls syntax $ ls [options] [file|dir] ls command main options: ls -a list all files including hidden file starting with '.' ls --color colored list [=always/never/auto] ls -d list directories - with ' */' ls -F add one char of */=>@| to enteries ls -i list file's inode index number ls -l list with long format - show permissions ls -la list long format including hidden files ls...