Linux Shtuff

From thecpaneladmin.com A common question we get from cPanel administrators is whether it’s Ok to remove /home/.cpan since, on many servers, it tends to grow to a size exceeding 1G. The short answer is yes – that folder is used by cPanel and Perl, and contains perl module installation files. If you find that yours…

From tuxradar.com Ever wanted to learn how the internals of your Linux desktop work? Yes, we’ve already published detailed “how it works” articles about things like sound, the kernel, LVM, PAM and filesystems, but in this article we’re going to take a wider view and explain how everything in a modern Linux distro works, start…

From google-opensource.blogspot.com Ever wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt? We did, a lot, last summer. It made us want to say: $ google picasa create –title “My album” ~/Photos/vacation/*.jpg So we wrote a program to do that, and a whole lot more. GoogleCL is a command-line utility…

From blog.amit-agarwal.co.in cat < login.sh for i in `cat logins` ; do login=`echo “$i”|awk -F”:” ‘{print $2}’`; comment=”`echo “$i”|awk -F”:” ‘{print $1}’`”; gr=”`echo “$i”|awk -F”:” ‘{print $3}’`”; echo “login –>> $login –Comment –>> $comment –Group –>>$gr –”; echo “useradd -c ”$comment” -d /export/home/$login -m -g $gr -s /bin/bash $login” useradd -c “$comment” -d /export/home/$login -m…

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From beginlinux.com The primary purpose of the slave server is to provide a backup to the primary master server should it go down for any reason. The major difference between the master server and the slave is where they get their data. The primary master server gets it’s information from zone files that are created…

From kmandla.wordpress.com As if screen wasn’t cool enough to start with, here’s a little bonus to make your day a wee bit brighter: There’s an -x flag for screen, which the man page and screen’s own –help tips suggest you can use to attach to a screen session that’s not detached. “Multi-user mode,” is what…

From blog.taragana.com Like every other Operating System Linux not free from security issues. These issues can be anticipated and averted only with suitable preventive steps. However, sticking to the buttoned-down techniques for securing the Linux systems such as locking the network, minimizing risk by locking down the system and restricting the access to only a…

Vinux is a remastered version of the popular Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx distribution optimised for the needs of blind and partially sighted users.. It provides three screen readers, two full-screen magnifiers, global font-size and colour changing facilities, and out-of-the-box support for USB Braille displays. The Vinux live CD boots into the Orca screen reader which…

From blog.amit-agarwal.co.in Here is the command to test that all the directories in your path actually exist. IFS=:;for p in $PATH; do test -d $p || echo $p; done read more…