Wednesday, October 27, 2010

How to set, run update automatically in linux with yum

If you need keep you Linux PC up to date, you have to update your system every time.
But if you can set this thing happens automatically you do not want to worry by manually updating your system. Here i show how do we can enable or set the yum update manager to run start up as a service.

To run the yum update service at the system start up, you have to enable it. Issue the following command to enable it.
# chkconfig --level 345 yum-updatesd on

If you want to verify your configuration issue,
# chkconfig  --list yum-updatesd
or
# service yum-updatesd status       // this gives whether the service running or not

Monday, September 6, 2010

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Friday, August 6, 2010

Puppy 5.0

Puppy Linux is one of light weight distribution of Linux. Live-CD of this Puppy Linux distribution is only 85MB.
But it includes all GUI applications.Being so small, Puppy Linux usually loads completely into the RAM. This increase the speed. You can find more details about Puppy Linux by it's website : www.puppylinux.com.

You can download you free copy from http://www.puppylinux.com/download/index.html

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Create a GRUB Boot Splash Background

Here i show you how to change the background of GRUB Boot splash. To do this you have follow some requirement. They are
  • It must be sized at 640x480. 
  • It must be a .xpm format image file.
  • It must contain no more than 14 colors.


Now we start, Suppose that you got a image in .png format. How do you convert it into .xpm format. You should have to installed ImageMagick and issue following command syntax to convert .png image to .xpm image.

# convert sampleimage.png  -colors 14 -resize 640x480  sampleimagee.xpm

First convert .xpm image to gz. Then copy that .xpm image in to /boot/grub directory

Convert sampleimage.xpm to gz
           # gzip sampleimage.xpm

Copy sampleimage.xpm.gz to /boot/grub
           # cp sampleimage.xpm.gz /boot/grub

Now configure the grub.conf to set your image.
           splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/sampleimage.xpm.gz

Now reboot the system and see whether you Grub Boot Splash Background has change !

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Install Audio/Video codec in Linux

People who use Linux distribution have to face one common problem. That is playing multimedia files in Linux. Most time MP3 and most video codec are not include in Linux distributions.

So you have to download the all necessary codec and install them. The best codec pack for Linux i’ve got is the Gstreamer Codec Pack. This package includes most popular codec. You can download them all from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/. All of them are source packages. After you download, unzip, configure, compile and install them. Here are the command that you need

Unzip : tar –zxvf gstreamer-0.10.30.tar.gz

Configure : ./configure

Compile the package : make

To Install : make install

Friday, July 30, 2010

Installing Windows Application in Linux

Most of Linux user suffering from installing Windows application in Linux. By default Linux do not support .exe files. Some users are use the Wine emulator to install windows applications. But i found better GUI Linux application to install windows application in Linux OS.


It is CrossOver Linux. This applications allow user to install most popular Windows applications in Linux. The latest CrossOver version 9 allow user to install Microsoft office 2007 also. This application support many most popular windows applications. You can find more details about CrossOver by visiting codeweavers.com. Also you can see more videos by visiting Codeweaver web site. You can find licensed application through Torrent site. Just Type CrossOver 9 and search it. This application available in .rpm, .deb, and .sh packages.



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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Finding VMware Images for VMware Player.

If you are using Virtual Machine softwares like VMware Server, VMware Workstation, or VMware Player you have heard about VMware images. These VMware images are used to work with VMware Players and they are created with VMware Workstation. If you are unable to create a VMware image for you, you can find it from the internet. There are lot of VMware images uploaded to the internet.

Also people who do not want to wast time by creating new virtual machine in the VMware workstation also can use these images for their work. We can found many Linux based VMware images and also windows.

Here are some sites which you can used to download VMware images.
www.vmware.com/appliances/
http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/
http://chrysaor.info/?page=home

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Use Virtual Machine for Linux

Do you use Linux before ?.Would you want to install and test Linux ?. But do you have fear to install Linux to your PC and that will corrupt your PC's existing partitions. Don't worry !. There is a best solution for it. That is using a Virtual Machine (VM). Virtual Machine software can install any supported operating system inside Windows or Linux or MacOS. Virtual Machine gets all physical resources of your existing PC, as an ex : Network card, CD-DVD ROM, Modem, HDD, eand etc. This VM do not corrupt your HDD drive partitions. VM create all things in virtually. So no need to fear.

VMware and Virtual Box are best Virtual Machine Software we can found today. Just try it if you interested.

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Monday, July 19, 2010

Here New Survey Experience for FREE

Here i give you another opportunity to earn some extra cash by participating to small survey. This program pay $ 6.00 for your sign up and pay $ 1.00 for review and participate their very little survey.You can payout you earning to your Alert Pay or PayPal accounts. If you interested sign up by following the link.

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Installing Binary and Scripts (.bin/.sh) Files

Here are the commands that you need to install binary(.bin) or Scripts(.sh) files

For .bin files
01. Make sure that the file is set to "executable" .
      chmod +x file_name
02. Then run the file
      ./file_name

For .sh files
01. Make sure that the file is set to "executable" do the step 01 above.
02.Then run the file either with the same command use as previous installing on .bin file or like this:
     sh file_name


Using VI editor on Linux

Here are the commands that you need to Use VI editor on Linux

Open the terminal and issue,
 # vi


Eg : # vi myfirstfile

Insert Text in to the file Using i, a, o, and O

The first way to switch to insert mode is to type the letter i, which, mnemonically enough,inserts text into the file. The other commands that accomplish more or less the same thingare a, to append text to the file; o, to open up a line below the current line; and O, to open up a line above the current line.

Deleting Text

The simplest form of the delete command is the x command, which functions as though you are writing an X over a letter you don’t want on a printed page: It deletes the character under the cursor. Type x five times, and you delete five characters.

Writing A little shell scripting

Here we are going to write a little shell Program.
First open the terminal and then issue following commands
vi firstscript.sh

Now you are created a file called "firstscript" and going to enter shell programming syntax. Enter following simple script.

#!/bin/bash //make this document a script file
# Display text using a function
function textdis
{
echo "Welcome to my Shell Scripting world";
}
textdis; //execute the function



Press Ctrl^d // on your keyboard to save the document

Now give permission for execution -> chmod +x firstscript.sh
Now execute the script file -> ./firstscript.sh



Installing Source files

Sources files comes as ".tar.gz", "tar.bz2" and ".zip" files. So what we want to do is unzip these zip files. It is better to use "usr/local/src" directory to unzip them.
  • For .tar.gz -> use : tar -zxvf < file_name_of_zip>
  • For tar.bz2 -> use : tar -jxvf < file_name_of_zip>
  • For .zip -> use : unzip < file_name_of_zip>
Now go in to the unzip file directory and issue follwing commands.(It is better read README.txt or INSTALL.txt files before you installing the source packages).
  • First configure the source -> ./configure
  • Then compile the source -> make
  • Last install the source -> make install
  • To clean up temp files -> make clean

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Earn Some Extra Cash

Do you want to earn some extra cash from the Internet. Here i show you what i did. There are lots of bux site we can found from the internet. But the question is will they really pay for us. Unfortunately most of the sites are SCAM sites. You can find more details from PTC INVESTIGATION website, which are the best and which are the SCAMS.But also we can find some sites that they really pays for us. Here i show you sites that i found which really paid you. One site is Clicksia they really pay, and i got 2 times payout from them since June 2010. Click on the banner and do sign up


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Friday, July 9, 2010

Apple iPhone 4

Apple iPhone 4 is the latest phone launch by Apple. This iPhone got lot of new features. It has 5 MP, gives high image quality. It supports Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n WLAN,HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps 3G network and Class 10, 236.8 kbps EDGE. The iPhone 4 use 1 GHz Apple A4 processor and got 512 MB RAM. This iPhone is available in 16GB and 32GB storage.





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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Change IP address in your Linux PC

The earlier post we talk about how to determine our IP address which assign to our PC. Now we talk how do we change that IP address statically. We use same command as we used in earlier post. That is ifconfig. We want to change our IP address as 10.0.0.5 and we assign the 24 prefix sub net to our Ethernet interface (eth0).

[root@fedora]# ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

Here to enable the interface we use up, and to disable the interface use down
[root@fedora]# ifdown eth0
[root@fedora]# ifup eth0




Determine your IP address

As a Linux user how do you determine IP address of your Linux PC in command line ?. Simply issue the command ifconfig -a as below. Here -a is option and ifconfig is the command
[root@fedora]# ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:C7:15:04:A8
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1820
...

Issue ifconfig --help or man ifconfig for find out more option



Monday, July 5, 2010

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 Beta 2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 beta has arrived and it's newest beta version RHEL 6 beta 2 is now available for download for testing purposes. The official announcement mention that the beta 2 has a new installer.

This new beta release available on both 32-bit and 64-bit platform for download. To find out more details visit RED HAT web site

Here is the ftp download directory URL for RHEL 6 beta
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/6/



Thursday, June 24, 2010

Control Linux Services in command line

Linux OS also runs several services like windows. Some times most of them are not useful or sometimes some of them are reduce PC performance. So how to manage those service in Linux. Here i show the basic way to control those service through the command line in fedora.

The syntax is - service [service name] [option]

The available options are
--start - Start the stopped services
--stop - Stop currently running services
--restart - Restart a service
--status - Check status of a service

Here are some example to show how it works

I want to check and stop the service of Network Manager. So first i want to check the status of the Network Manager. Issue following command as a root.
[root@fedora fedora 11]# service NetworkManager status
NetworkManager(pid 5054) is running ...
[root@fedora fedora 11]#

Ok now the service is running. So now i am going to stop the service.
[root@fedora fedora 11]# service NetworkManager start
Starting NetworkManager daemon: [OK]
[root@fedora fedora 11]#

To check all services issue services --status-all
To get help services --help





Wednesday, June 23, 2010

OpenSUSE 11.2 Released

OpenSUSE is an open source OS and free to use with your PC, laptops and as a servers. The OpenSUSE newest version 11.2 has been released and you can download it from http://software.opensuse.org. It includes GNOME, KDE and many user friendly applications. Here are some screen shots provide by the OpenSUSE web site for its new release.





Find more details on www.opensuse.org


Monday, June 21, 2010

Real simulation with GNS3







Use any GNS3 support Cisco IOS images and do your simulation. No need of physical routers and switches. You need GNS3 and some Cisco IOS.

Go to www.gns3.net to download your copy !!!!

Find your Cisco IOS on the internet.

Putty Console 0.6

Putty console 0.6 for Linux. This application is necessary when you are using GNS3 in Linux. This gives better view and performance in Linux.

Flash Player 10 for Linux

Download Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux

Format :.tar
Size : 4.7MB

Download : http://hotfile.com/dl/49702664/1bbc5d4/install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz.html

Monday, May 17, 2010

Beginning the Linux Command Line

Lets start Linux from begin, step by step.

Beginning the Linux Command Line, By Sander van Vugt. Apress Publication

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Essential Linux Device Drivers



Download here

OReilly Unix in a Nutshell



OReilly Unix in a Nutshell, find out basic unix commands A-Z. Book ISBN : 1-56592-427-4.

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