Q. I’ve migrated from Windows NT to Linux workstation. Most documents refer to a command line shell. Can you explain me command line shell? A. A shell allows you to type the commands such as date or clear. There are many shell available. BASH (bourne again shell) is default shell for most Linux distributions. It [...]
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Q. Why Linux usernames with capital letters are not working? When I run adduser command I get bad username or Use the `–force-badname’ message. I am using Debian Linux. A. You should always try to avoid Linux usernames with capital letters in them. Many server program such as FTP server or sendmail makes no difference [...]
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Q. I am new to MySQL database server. How do I show the list of databases on my server? Is there any good GUI frontend exists for the same?
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Q. Why do I see Duplicate packages name while querying the rpm database with rpm -qa command? For example when I type following command I see few Duplicate packages: rpm -qa | grep package How do I get rid of this problem? I am using Fedora Core 64 bit version on AMD dual core server. [...]
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Q. How do I add a user to group under FreeBSD operating system? A. You need to use pw command. The pw utility is a command-line based editor for the system user and group files, allowing the superuser an easy to use and standardized way of adding, modifying and removing users and groups. First login [...]
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Q. For my academic project I would like to monitor and analyze data transferred via HTTP. How do I monitor HTTP Packets? A. The easiest way is to use tcpdump program/command, which dumps traffic on a network. Tcpdump prints out the headers of packets on a network interface that match the given criteria such as [...]
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Q. How do I Access Windows share from Linux command prompt? I would like to be able to access shared folders on Windows machines from my Linux system. A. There are two ways. Use command line tool called smbclient or you can mount windows shares the mount command. Another option is use GUI tools. Please [...]
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