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Integrating Linux in a predominantly Windows environment at a local University can be challenging on many fronts. The biggest challenges are often lack of expertise from administrators, and proper support in Active Directory like installing Services...
This basic tutorial will show you how to install and configure a very basic Samba server. Samba implements windows file and print sharing for Linux. Install the Samba binaries
sudo apt-get install smbclient samba samba-common
Configure Samba...
Sometimes your system refuses to boot properly. Even recovery mode selection from the command line prompt is not very helpful. Here is a good technique to boot your Linux system into single user mode. Single user mode is great for...
File commandsSystem Infols -- Directory listingdate -- Show the current date and timels -las -- Formated listing with hidden filescal -- Show this months calendarcd dir -- Change the directory to diruptime -- Show the current uptimepwd -- Show current...
Even Linux is subject to system freezes. Problems with defective hardware, or a pesky bug in the Linux kernel itself can leave your system in a frozen state and unresponsive to key board commands. Even the three fingure salute, ctrl + alt +...
Have you ever wanted to scan a network for NFS volumes that are available. The following script requires the NFS client tools in order to work properly.First install nfs client toolsRedhat/Centos
sudo yum install nfs-client
Mint/Ubuntu/Debian...
The /etc/fstab file contains information about file systems. It is used by several commands on Linux to define how file systems are mounted. Every filesystem that Linux supports supports many different mount options depending on the file...
Have you ever had different versions of the same library or two compilers on the same system and find managing mutliple environments cumbersome. Environment modules provides an excellent method to customize your shell environment, especially on the...
We all respect Redhat's goal of providing a stable operating system to its customers, the stability often comes at price. Often in the form of missing features that are available in the more recent releases of many packages. One such product has always...
Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. It leverages widely used technologies such as XML for data...