Linux: Tips n Tricks

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...

Error using m4 macro while building sendmail.cf from sendmail.mc on RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 flavors? [root@cent1]# m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc...

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...

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

In this how to we shall discuss how to reset root password in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I guess this howto will...

How to set Date and Time in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx via command line. You can use the “date’ command for setting Date in any ubuntu ba...

The DNS setup is also a starignt forward job in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Like all other major distributions like Redhat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu di...

In my last post i have described how to configure network in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS in bare metal form. Now we will check how to configure hostnam...

Normally all the users will create and configure their network while installing the Operating System Itself. However here I am post the proc...

The new Ubuntu 10.04 release is a great release and it is really a task to find things you dislike. Anyhow no operating system is perfect ...

The things I Love and Hate about the new Ubuntu 10.0.4 Lucid Lynx. GNOME 2.30 This is the final 2.x release before the major upgrade to 3....

Canonical has released its new server monitoring and management tool Landscape with its Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support) edition. The ap...

Canonical, on April 27 2010, announced the release of the Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS server Edition release. This release includes extended security ...

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...