Monthly Archives: October 2009
chown command
The chown command changes the owner of the file or directory specified by the File or Directory parameter to the user specified by the Owner parameter. In this command syntax, if only a user name (or numeric user ID) is … Continue reading
newgrp command
The newgrp command changes temporarily the primary group of a user into another group of which that user is a member. In this step, a new shell will be created, and when that user will exit from the shell, his … Continue reading
repquota command
The repquota command is prints a summary of quotas and disk usage for a file system specified by the filesystem parameter. Important flags of repquota commands are as follows: -a Specifies that quotas are printed for all file systems enabled … Continue reading
edquota command
The edquota command extracts the quota information for a user from the various filesystems with quotas enabled. The edquota command creates a temporary file that contains current disk quotas of each user and group. It determines the list of file … Continue reading
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Hi guys, uCertify, a leading IT certification company is giving 15% discount on their practice tests in the celebration of Halloween. You have to simply type their Promotion code “BOO” and get 15% special discount. uCertify is an IT certification … Continue reading
Kernal Information in Linux Using /proc
The /proc file system is responsible to control access to physical devices on the computer and to schedule when and how processes interact with these devices. The /proc/ directory contains a hierarchy of special files which represent the current state … Continue reading
setserial command
The setserial command is used to set and report the configuration information associated with a serial port. This information includes which I/O port and IRQ are being used by a particular serial port. Often setserial command is called from an … Continue reading
What is the Loacte command?
The locate command is used to locate files in the whole system using a database of filenames. Syntax: locate <filename> It searches the locate database for the filename. This database is stored  in /var/lib/locatedb.It is updated via the following command: … Continue reading
What is traceroute command?
Traceroute is a command which can show you the path a packet of information takes from your computer to one you specify. It will list all the routers it passes through until it reaches its destination, or fails to and … Continue reading
LDAP Schema
What is LDAP schema: Similar types of object-classes and attributes are grouped together in a packaging unit, known as LDAP schema. In LDAP directories, schemas are added using the include statements in the slapd.conf (configuration file). An LDAP schema must … Continue reading
