Linux: Tips n Tricks

Hello, Have you ever wondered how to view the Linux configurations files without those comments? Well those comments are indeed helpful, ...

Metadata Filesystem blocks are user for 2 purposes : To store User data and Metadata User data - stores actual data contained in fi...

Every thing in Linux is a File. A file in turn is actually a pointer to inode which contain the actual data on the disk, permissions, owne...

By default Postfix is set as the default mail transfer agent in Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 and Cent OS 6 flavors. However you can change t...

Special permissions on files and directories in linux are : SetUID , SetGID and Sticky bit. With the help of “chmod” command  we can im...

Network Bonding :- NIC teaming or network bonding is nothing but combining or aggregating multiple network connections in parall...

The Find Command Cheat Sheet 1. Basic find command # find -name "TestFile" 2. Find Files Using Name and Ignoring Case # fi...

This how-to describes configuring TCP Wrappers for providing Access Control for the supported services in a Linux box.TCP wrappers are supp...

Mount NTFS partition in Redhat Enterpris Linux / Ubuntu Linux Enterprise Linux distributions like Redhat Enterprise Linux ( RHEL ) does ...

secuThe firewall rules in the kernel can be configured by using iptables since 2.4 kernel. There are number of tools for configuring the fir...

Good news for all the RedHat enthusiasts: Red Hat Enterprise Edition 6 Beta has released. This beta release is the first step forward to the...

Hello guys... Ever wondered how to set multiple IPs in a single network card? Here is the solution. Multiple IP binded in a single networ...

Yea guys, the Red Hat Inc. has launched its 5th iteration of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, RHEL 5.5 on March 29, 2010. There is no doubt t...

Here we shall discuss about labeling a Linux partition and its advantages.  You might have seen labeled partitions if you have opened and v...

In this post I am going to describe you about the 'setuid' in UNIX and Linux. setuid or ' set u ser ID upon execution' an...

Hello guys this time I give you a how-to for logging into a remote server/desktop without being prompted for password. SSH or Secure Shell...

Intro: Installing Linux in an existing Windows Machine is not at all a big deal, rather it is quiet straight forward. You just have to leav...