After having a look at the upcoming stories over at digg.com‘s Unix/Linux section, I noticed a reference to an LDAP HOWTO. This article goes in depth describing the LDAP protocol. I didn’t have the time to read it thoroughly, but this is a must read. The author writes: LDAP is a complex subject. This Guide…
Another great write-up by Ravi, in which he explains the usage of strace by resolving a common issue with Totem not being able to play encrypted DVDs. Ravi writes in his article: Many times I have come across seemingly hopeless situations where a program when compiled and installed in GNU/Linux just fails to run. In…
This is a guide to create or restore images of your partitions using the great open source tool Partimage. It provides information on how to do this locally or across the network, by setting up a Partimaged Server. I guess this info is non distribution specific, since we will work from a Rescue environment.
This is a short article about the most common practices in user and group management from the command line. The information is specific to Fedora Core and Red Hat based distros, but would do for any distribution probably with slight differences in the command options.
Can a network card have multiple IPs assigned to it? The answer is absolutely yes! Some times, for example when you run several servers on a machine or when you need IP-based Apache virtualhosts, it is useful to bind a server or a virtualhost on its own IP address. I am not going to get…
It’s very useful, when testing things, to have syslog messages appear in real-time on the screen. This way there is no need to check /var/log/messages all the time.
There are some really useful commands that can give information about the system directly from the console. Some of them are:
The default console resolution can be changed by passing the “vga=value” parameter from GRUB. You can do this at the boot screen or by editing the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. For example:
Ever had the need to change the console font in fedora? I did because using the default font greek characters were completely unreadable. So, here is how to do it.