OpenSUSE is the most widely used linux distribution. It is free / opensource which is suitable for laptops, desktops, netbooks, servers and multimedia center PCs at home or in small offices. In this article we will discuss the installation steps of OpenSUSE 13.1 along with … Read more
MPlayer(Media Player) is a multimedia software in Linux like operating systems, it is used to play audio and video files from its GUI (SMPlayer) and command line. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. Special input … Read more
After the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7) , CentOS community has released its latest Operating System named as CentOS 7. Some of the new features in CentOS 7 as compared with CentOS 6.X are listed below : CentOS 7 uses XFS … Read more
In Linux, It’s a security concern for organization to allow anyone to reboot the server using Ctrl-Alt-Del keys. It is always recommended in production boxes that one should disable reboot using Ctrl-Alt-Del keys. In this article we will discuss how can we disable reboot via … Read more
By default postfix only capture ‘From’ and ‘To’ details in the log file (/var/log/maillog). There are some scenarios where we want that email’s subject should be capture in the maillog. In this article we will discuss how to achieve this : We are assusming that … Read more
Badblocks is the command-line utility in Linux like operating systems which can scan or test the hard disk and external drive for bad sectors. Bad sectors or bad blocks is the space of the disk which can’t be used due to the permanent damage or … Read more
Dealing with our daily admin tasks we face lot of requests where we need to assign virtual disks or additional disks to Virtual Machines running on Xen hypervisor . Xen hypervisor have lot of “xm” commands that can be used to manage the functionality of … Read more
There are some scenario where system admin wants only few users should be allowed to transfer files to Linux boxes but no ssh. We can achieve this by setting up SFTP in chroot environment. Background of SFTP & chroot : SFTP stands for SSH File Transfer … Read more
In this post, we will cover how to install and use putty on Ubuntu Linux. System Admins who had worked on Windows Operating system, surely they have used putty software to ssh UNIX like systems. When they migrated to Ubuntu Desktop , they might require … Read more
In this tutorial, we will cover how to install FilZilla in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and will also learn how to use filezilla. FileZilla is a free and open-source ftp client for both windows and Linux operating systems. It is … Read more
In this post, we will cover how to generate sos report on RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 system. Sos report is a command line tool in Linux distributions like RHEL and CentOS, which collects system configuration and diagnostic information of your linux box like running … Read more
Skype is a chat client that allows users to communicate with each other through plain chatting and voice or video chat. Millions of users and businesses use Skype to make free video & voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. … Read more
