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Switching to a GUI login on RHEL 6

Published 27 Oct 2010 Read time 57 sec(s) (2438 visits).

To switch to a graphical environment, you may need to install additional software from the RHEL Internet repository or installation DVD.

Updated 9 Nov 2010 Read time 3 min(s) 31 sec(s) (229 visits).

How to determine hardware specs, manufacturer, and serial number of a Linux or Unix machine.

Published 22 Apr 2010 Read time 21 sec(s) (709 visits).

mpack encodes the named file in one or more MIME messages and sends the message to one or more recipients

Published 17 Mar 2010 Read time 11 sec(s) (2912 visits).

This is a simple screenshot of how to send the Ctrl+Alt+Del key sequence to a VM guest

Published 11 Mar 2010 Read time 2 min(s) 10 sec(s) (514 visits).

netstat is a useful tool for checking your network configuration and activity. It is in fact a collection of several tools lumped together.

Published 27 Dec 2009 Read time 1 min 2 sec(s) (2463 visits).

A simple post for those who are new to Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) or Red Hat Linux (RHEL) version 6 and wish to change hostname.

Updated 7 Aug 2014 Read time 1 min 23 sec(s) (2648 visits).

In this post, we walk through steps you can follow to check the status of SELinux and also disable it in OEL 6, if it is enabled.

Updated 28 Nov 2011 Read time 3 min(s) 44 sec(s) (1842 visits).

The find command in UNIX and Linux is a command line utility allowing you to search for files in a directory hierarchy.

Published 5 Jun 2009 Read time 1 min 29 sec(s) (2536 visits).

APT originally designed as a front-end for dpkg to work with debian packages, but it has since been modified to also work with the RPM via apt-rpm.

Published 7 Dec 2007 Read time 48 sec(s) (571 visits).

On Linux systems the routing table maps destinations to the router and network interface that IP must use to reach that destination.