Photo courtesy of sean dreilinger As part of Holiday Giveaway contest, I’ve asked you to share your favorite Unix command and a sample usage. Following are three randomly selected winners from the comments, who will receive Learning Nagios 3.0 PDF eBook as holiday gift. SLM Jason Akshay Sulakhe There were totally 61 awesome comments. Thanks [...]
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Photo courtesy of viagallery.com This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy. lshw (Hardware Lister) command gives a comprehensive report about all hardware in your system. This displays detailed information about manufacturer, serial number of the system, motherboard, CPU, RAM, PCI cards, disks, network card etc., Using lshw, you can get information about the hardware [...]
Photo courtesy of dantesz This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy. Enabling thesaurus option for vi / vim will help you to choose alternate words from thesaurus. For example, while typing “important”, you may prefer to use a different word than “important”. Wouldn’t be nice if vi can give you few alternative words such [...]
It’s Holiday Season and I have a gift for you. As part of the first contest at The Geek Stuff, I will be giving away three copies of Learning Nagios 3.0 PDF version of the book written by Wojciech Kocjan. All you have to do is let us know your favorite Unix command with a [...]
Photo courtesy of KCIvey This is a guest post written by Lakshmanan G. If you are working on kernel development, or device drivers, or running a code that could cause kernel panic, SysRq key will be very valuable. The magic SysRq key is a key combination in the Linux kernel which allows the user to [...]
Photo courtesy of judepics Tripwire is a host based Intrusion detection system for Linux. Tripwire monitors Linux system to detect and report any unauthorized changes to the files and directories. Once a baseline is created, tripwire monitors and detects, which file is added, which file is changed, what is changed, who changed it, and when [...]
Issue: You have tar, gzip and bzip2 working properly on your server. However, you are getting “CPAN.pm needs either the external programs tar, gzip and bzip2 installed. Can’t continue.” error message while installing a perl module using cpan. This article explains how to solve this problem. Also, please refer to our previous article on [...]
Photo courtesy of Jamison Judd This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy. Wakeonlan (wol) enables you to switch ON remote servers without physically accessing it. Wakeonlan sends magic packets to wake-on-LAN enabled ethernet adapters and motherboards to switch on remote computers. By mistake, when you shutdown a system instead of rebooting, you can use [...]