A while back we discussed about 12 powerful PuTTY add-ons. When you are working on production support or on a critical project that require 24×7 support, it is essential that you connect to the remote Linux server from anywhere. I found having a SSH client on my phone is very convenient for a quick status [...]
April 2009
Photo Courtesy: B Zedan This article is part of the on-going Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks series. Vim is commonly mentioned as text editor, not text creator. Why ? Because we spend lot of time editing an existing text than creating new text. In the text editing, text/pattern substitutions becomes a vital part. In [...]
Photo Courtesy: mattblaze Best practice recommends that users keep changing the passwords at a regular interval. But typically developers and other users of Linux system won’t change the password unless they are forced to change their password. It’s the system administrators responsibility to find a way to force developers to change their password. Forcing [...]
Photo Courtesy: mint imperial This article is part of the on-going Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks series. As a programmer or system administrator, you will be constantly browsing source codes and shell scripts. Following are some typical activities that you may perform while browsing a source code file: Navigating to the function definition by [...]
Earlier we discussed about how to install PostgreSQL database on Linux from source. In this article, let us review top 15 practical postgreSQL DBA command examples. If you are a mySQL administrator, check-out our 15 examples of mysqladmin command article that we discussed a while back. 1. How to change PostgreSQL root user password ? [...]
Photo courtesy of gfpeck Earlier we discussed 15 practical examples of find command and grep command. Now, it is time to turn our attention to something less. In this article, let us review how Linux less command can be used to open and view the following 10 different file types: PDF File – *.pdf [...]
Similar to mySQL, postgreSQL is very famous and feature packed free and open source database. Earlier we’ve discussed several installations including LAMP stack installation, Apache2 installation from source, PHP5 installation from source and mySQL installation. In this article, let us review how to install postgreSQL database on Linux from source code. Step 1: Download postgreSQL [...]
Email administrators may set a limit on the maximum attachment size that can be attached to an email. You can follow the steps mentioned below to transfer big files that cannot be attached to the email because of the attachment size restriction. This technique can be used in general whenever you need to split huge [...]
My name is Ramesh Natarajan. I will be posting instruction guides, how-to, troubleshooting tips and tricks on Linux, database, hardware, security and web. My focus is to write articles that will either teach you or help you resolve a problem. Read more about