EPEL stands for ‘Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux‘ , as the name suggest epel provides additional rpm packages for RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux (SL) & Oracle Enterprise Linux (OLE). EPEL is created and maintained by Fedora community and EPEL packages are 100% free/libre open source … Read more
MariaDB is an Open Source database Server and It is 100 % compatible with MySQL and consider as drop-in replacement to MySQL database server. Background of MariaDB In 2008, MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems, which was in turn acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010. … Read more
Overview : Linux Mint is a Linux based desktop level operating system for the home users and companies can use it at no cost and which is as efficient, easy to use, and elegant as possible. Linux mint is designed for most of the modern … Read more
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 explain you how to install Putty (SSH Client) on Ubuntu Linux. In the world of Linux, secure remote connections are essential for managing servers, devices, and networking equipment. One of the most popular tools for establishing secure shell (SSH) connections … Read more
