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Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate by providing scalable, cost-effective, and secure IT infrastructure. As more and more companies move their operations to the cloud, Linux has emerged as the dominant operating system in the cloud computing space. In this blog post, we will explore how Linux and cloud computing are a match made in heaven Linux’s Open-Source Nature Linux…

What is an init script, what is the use of it, how to write an init script? Lets begin to know the answers.

Declaimer: Use it at your own risk!!! Writing this topic for learning and knowledge sharing purpose only. You must own root privileges (and authority) on the system where you are trying or applying this topic.

What is an init script?

Keeping it simple, init script is just a shell scriptwhic…

If you are a Beginner in Linux, this post will help you to learn Linux commands in just 3 simple steps.

Nowadays most of the Linux flavored desktop like Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Suse etc. are coming with very interactive user friendly graphical user interface (GUI). Using Linux GUI is similar to use other graphical user interface OS like Windows XP/7/8, Mac OS, Android or iOS etc.

Although Linux is…

Use of lock files in init scripts

In /var/lock/subsys/ directory, there are various files like network, iptables, ip6tables, sshd, rsyslog etc. all these files are the lock files created by their init scripts. Most of these files may be empty.

These files play the important role in Linux startup and shutdown process. When a service is started through an init script, a file is touched in the /var/lock/subsys/directory with the…

I tried various Linux ISO to USB software like UNetbootin, liveusb-creator, Universal-USB-Installer etc to create CentOS 6 (take a look at new look of CentOS website) bootable USB/pendrive. But all have some problems or limitations which force me to use ISO2USB software, which help me to meet my need.

Requirement

Create a CentOS 6 bootable USB which will support customized installation (by using…

I got most visitors from U.S., thanks to my U.S. visitors. After that Indian visitors make a good figure, special thanks to them also. I am expecting more visits from them.

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LibreOffice 4 is launched and I was very exited to install it on my CentOS 6. It was really a good experience to install and use it. I am very happy to see that its performance is enhanced a lot. Documents are opening very fast than the earlier versions.…

PAM with Radius Authentication

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2012 in review, welcome 2013

A very happy new year Thanks to all my friends and followers.

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How to find USB device in Linux

I wondered when I had to find the USB device name in Linux using shell script (shell command), it…

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Open the /etc/rsyslog.conf file for syslog configuration in fedora Linux (some linux like CentOS has /etc/syslog.conf). It will show the something similar as given below: # Log all kernel messages to the console. # Logging much else clutters up the…

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