by Ramesh Natarajan
on January 11, 2011
Here is the good, bad and ugly scenario for backups.
- Ugly – Not having a backup. When the application or database crashes, you are screwed.
- Bad – Taking regular backup, but storing the backup on the same server. When the application or database crashes, you can restore it from the backup located on the same server. But when the whole server crashes, and you lost the backup, you are screwed.
- Good – Taking regular backup, and storing it in multiple locations.
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on January 11, 2011
If you are running any web based open source application that is written in perl, you should be using mod_perl with Apache instead of running it as CGI. mod_perl is way faster than running a web application using CGI.
This article explains how to install mod_perl on Apache 2.
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on January 10, 2011
I’m very excited for this year and looking forward to write lot of high quality tutorials on Linux and open source technology.
There are tons of topics on Linux that we would like to cover, and we already started writing several articles for the upcoming weeks.
We also would like to cover topics that you are interested in.
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by Balakrishnan Mariyappan
on January 5, 2011
tput command is used to query the terminfo terminal database and check if that terminal supports a specific feature.
tput command accepts the terminal commands and output the control code sequences for that terminal. Using tput you can control the color and cursor of your terminal as explained in this article.
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by Sasikala
on January 4, 2011
Regular expressions are used to search and manipulate the text, based on the patterns. Most of the Linux commands and programming languages use regular expression.
Grep command is used to search for a specific string in a file. Please refer our earlier article for 15 practical grep command examples.
You can also use regular expressions with grep command when you want to search for a text containing a particular pattern. Regular expressions search for the patterns on each line of the file. It simplifies our search operation.
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by Ramesh Natarajan
on January 1, 2011
by Ramesh Natarajan
on December 25, 2010
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all TGS Readers.
To wrap this year, I’ve collected 50 UNIX / Linux sysadmin related tutorials that we’ve posted so far. This is lot of reading. Bookmark this article for your future reference and read it whenever you get free time.
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by Balakrishnan Mariyappan
on December 21, 2010
This article explains the command line options that can be passed to an expect script.
If you are new to expect scripting language, first start with our expect hello world example.
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