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How to Determine Hardware Specs on Linux, Solaris, and VMWare

9 Nov 2010 3 minute read 714 visits.

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

22 Apr 2010 1 minute read 1273 visits.

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

17 Mar 2010 1 minute read 3608 visits.

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

11 Mar 2010 2 minute read 1042 visits.

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

27 Dec 2009 1 minute read 2986 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.

7 Aug 2014 1 minute read 3232 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.

28 Nov 2011 3 minute read 2459 visits.

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

5 Jun 2009 1 minute read 3016 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.

7 Dec 2007 1 minute read 1021 visits.

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

6 Nov 2007 1 minute read 2911 visits.

How to configure SSH to allow access using GSSAPI and achieve single-sign-on using vendor supplied OpenSSH or OpenSSH downloaded from the internet.