Q. How do I find out which graphics card installed in my Linux desktop system? I’m using Ubuntu Linux. I don’t want to open up the computer hardware to just see the make and model of the graphics card in a system. A. You don’t have to open the hardware to see the make and [...]
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Q.I know that I can patch binary package using up2date or yum command in Linux but what I’m wondering is if there’s a way to apply a patch file to downloaded source code under Linux / UNIX like operating system source tree? A. Linux and UNIX source software often comes with security and other patches. [...]
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Q. I’m trying to crate a bootdisk using mkbootdisk command. However I’m getting error which read as follows: no space left on floppy /dev/fd0 How do I fix this problem? A. The mkbootdisk command is used to creates a stand-alone boot disk floppy for the running system. This error indicates two thing: (a) Your kernel [...]
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Q. Can you explain the concept of superuser under Linux / UNIX? How how should I use root on my CentOS Linux server? A. root is the superuser on a Unix or Linux system. root is the first user created during the process of installing any Linux distro or UNIX like operating system. root has [...]
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We have recently brought a new Sun Solaris UNIX server. How do I Backup data and make a recovery for the Solaris OS using tar and tape device?
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Q. I would like to know what the current date or time is via my php script? Can you provide me the sample php code? A. PHP has inbuilt functions to display current date and time. PHP date/time functions [a] strftime(): Format a local time/date according to locale settings [b] date : Format a local [...]
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Q. I’m trying to get basic information about UNIX system like logged in user, find out today’s date disk space and quota usage and so on. Can you list command name for me? A. Try out following basic command to get information about UNIX or Linux systems Task: Get the date and time Display or [...]
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