Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ~Mother Teresa Happy New Year to all TGS readers from Me and My Daughters (Diya and Neha). We wish you and your family a happy and prosperous New Year. With your tremendous love and support, TGS team is extremely [...]
Ramesh Natarajan
BIRT is an open source reporting engine that is based on Java technology. This is one of Eclipse top level project. The following are two major components of BIRT: BIRT Report Designer – You can design rich reports using this designer UI from Eclipse. The report design is stored in an XML format. BIRT Viewer [...]
As a Linux sysadmin, you might recover a system from backup, which may include Oracle Database. So, it is essential for all admins to understand how to restore oracle database from backup. Typically, DBAs will use Oracle RMAN utility to take a hot backup of the database. This tutorial provides an introduction on how to [...]
Chromebook runs on Chrome OS. If you’ve been thinking about buying a chromebook, you should first decide whether Chrome OS is an appropriate choice for you or not. We’ll explore the following in this article: Why you should buy chromebook? Why you shouldn’t buy chromebook? Top 5 best chromebook laptop to purchase Why You Should [...]
One of the common MySQL operation is to insert records into a table. This tutorial explains how to use MySQL insert command with several practical and useful examples. The following example will connect to devdb database with username devuser and password mysecretpwd # mysql -u devuser -pmysecretpwd devdb mysql> For this tutorial, we’ll insert values [...]
When you perform yum update, it will download the latest version of all the packages that are installed on your system, and upgrade them to the latest version. You may be in situation where you might not want yum to automatically update one (or more) specific package. In those situations, use the yum exclude option [...]
CVE-2014-6271 is a high impact critical fix. If you are running a Linux system, you should fix this vulnerability. This CVE-2014-6271 (and CVE-2014-7169) vulnerability is also called as Shellshock. A flaw was found in the way Bash evaluated certain specially crafted environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions [...]
I’m excited to announce that the details of the San Francisco Bay Area Linux Sysadmin workshop is finalized. Several participants who showed interested in this workshop earlier have already signed-up. Early bird registration will close by July 31st. If you are interested, take advantage of the early-bird discount and sign-up quickly. Workshop Date and Location [...]