I am using 1TB Seagate hard disk , last night i formated everything and newly installed Ubuntu 10.4 also i partitioned my disk like following Primary Partition (/) – 200 GB Extended Partition - 800 [ 9 GB for Swap , 300 GB for Research and 470 GB for Entertainment ] Here is the log [...]
You are downloading softwares or movies in your desktop Linux , Your Internet connection is limited to GB usage. or only night hours internet is free. In that situation, If you want to turn off or shutdown your computer after the free usage time. GShutdown software is doing that task for you. GShutdown is an [...]
Some Websites (Except English and Unicode Sites ) need separate font software for viewing information.If the website has font download option then download the “.ttf” font and just follow the steps (You need root privileges for doing this) 1.Copy the (.ttf or .TTF fonts to fonts folder) # cp /home/user/senthami.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/ 2.Update the fonts database [...]
Sometime you may want to change the user login name into different one,In that case you can use two options (Login or switch to root mode – su) Method 1: ( Using usermod command ) usermod -l newname oldname Example #usermod -l anthoniraj antony Here the user antony has been changed to anthoniraj Method 2 [...]
1. Shutdown o init 0 o shutdown -h now + -a: Use file /etc/shutdown.allow + -c: Cancel scheduled shutdown. o halt -p + -p: Turn power off after shutdown. o poweroff 2.Reboot o init 6 o shutdown -r now o reboot 3.Enter single user mode: o init 1
Consider this scenario,This is the sample LAN. Now i am going to configure the server and 3 clients (for shutting down 3 clients from server) .Using Secure Shell (SSH) , we can execute any terminal commands like shutdown and halt on the remote system. but we need to enter the password for connecting remote system. [...]
If you want to hide the terminal text on the terminal (when you type password or some secret messages ) you can use the following command [root@MB327SCS068 ~]# stty -echo[root@MB327SCS068 ~]# After that no command will display on your terminal , If you want to enable text again on your terminal , type the command [...]
Daemon is used to execute every service in Linux OS . by default some daemons are running when you boot the system. We can also start /stop/restart the any daemon ,The basic syntax is service daemon_name start / stop / restart Eg : if you want to share the files among the network using Samba [...]
Some times the administrator can lock or unlock the user passwordmeans , the user cannot change the password if administrator set the lock option.the syntax is passwd -l / -u username l – lock the password (user cannot change their password)u – unlock the password (user can change their password) Eg : [root@MB327SCS068 ~]# passwd [...]
The cut command is used to remove the word / line from the given input file Eg 1 : For Findind List of users available on your linux machine ( see the previous post) cut -d : -f 1 /etc/passwd /etc/passwd is the file about user information , the general format of this file is [...]