Photo courtesy of yonmacklein Like most of you, I’m a command line junkie. There are two advantages of using Linux command line instead of UI. First, you can automate lot of routine activities using command line and your productivity will increase drastically. Second, you’ll learn the internals of a particular feature (for example, configuring NIS) [...]
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Around The Geek World is a monthly summary of interesting articles and news around the geek world with my brief comments. Red Hat 5.3 Released – There are some good enhancements on Virtualization and Disk encryption. Refer to this release notes for more details. Oracle 11g for Dummies – This new dummies book will give [...]
Photo courtesy of Rob Shenk For a DBA, starting up and shutting down of oracle database is a routine and basic operation. Sometimes Linux administrator or programmer may end-up doing some basic DBA operations on development database. So, it is important for non-DBAs to understand some basic database administration activities. In this article, let us [...]
Photo courtesy of Olivander 1. What is PoE – Power Over Ethernet? Power over Ethernet (PoE) does exactly what it says — it carries power over ethernet cables. So, an ethernet cables caries both data and current together to operate devices like wi-fi access points. This is very helpful to install wi-fi access points in [...]
This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy pg_dump is an effective tool to backup postgres database. It creates a *.sql file with CREATE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, and COPY SQL statements of source database. To restore these dumps psql command is enough. Using pg_dump, you can backup a local database and restore it on a [...]
Update: Linux 101 Hacks eBook released. Get your copy. I’m currently writing my first book. I’m almost done with the Linux 101 Hacks eBook that covers 101 practical examples on various Linux related functionalists. The 101 hacks mentioned in this book will help you build strong foundation in Linux. All hacks in this [...]
In all the 15 mysqladmin command-line examples below, tmppassword is used as the MySQL root user password. Please change this to your MySQL root password. 1. How to change the MySQL root user password? # mysqladmin -u root -ptmppassword password 'newpassword' # mysql -u root -pnewpassword Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; [...]
Photo courtesy of hortongrou I have developed the habit of reading at least 30 minutes everyday before going to bed. I always have a technical and a non-technical book in my reading queue. I read lot of infrastructure related books — sysadmin, DBA, networking and storage. I also enjoy reading biography of famous people, personal [...]