The Linux Juggernaut

What is disk quota?
Ans : Disk quota is nothing but restricting the disk-space usage to the users. We have to remember one thing when we are dealing with disk quota i.e Disk Quota can be applied only on disks/partitions not on files and folders.

So how we can implement disk quota?
Disk quota can be implemented in two ways

a. On INODE
b. On BLOCK

What is an INODE?
Ans : In … Continue Reading

Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server is an important service for Network engineers, because they will be using this TFTP server for coping big IOS(Inter networking Operating System)files to routers, So as a Linux administrators we have to install and configure tftp server.

Why these network guys uses TFTP server for coping IOS images? why not ftp, scp, rcp etc?
Ans : Because TFTP use UDP protocol for sending data, so its bit faster … Continue Reading

Part2 :

So coming to advanced RPM management here I am going to discuss how to convert .tar.gz/.tar.bz2 files,src.rpm files to rpm packages? So that its very much easy to install the packages by using rpm command.

New releases of Linux programs are generally released in the tar.gz format consisting of source code of the application. Normally you will compile these programs but at times they throw some compiler errors on your screen which … Continue Reading

Package management in Linux is very much tedious job when compared to windows systems. Basically if we consider windows its very much easy even for LKG student will install the packages(in windows we will call it as softwares) very much easy main windows software packages are .exe or .bat or .msi or .cab files we will just double click it will install the package for you with minimal system knowledge this is all about … Continue Reading

Actually i am Google centric guy,who always romming around google google google to find out what Google is inventing day today. I am regular reader of googlesystem.blogspot.com and blogoscoped.com blogs, both the sites are totaly discuessing google releated information/hacks etc

So comming to the point why i am saying all this to u? that too in my linux blog? any guesses?
Ans : Today I found of some strange site from the above mentioned blogs … Continue Reading

Checking named.conf and DNS zone files for syntax errors such as dots, spaces, and coma’s etc is a tedious job to find and pinpoint them. Its very difficult to find where is the error in named.conf file. So for that we can use

named-checkconf command to help us..

Syntax

#named-checkconf configurationfileloc 

Example :

#named-checkconf /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf 

When you execute above command it will show you the errors if any according to line number, so its very … Continue Reading