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Archive for May, 2011
This is a small post on how to install sendmail in Linux
Sendmail is a mail server package which most popular mail server(but not a secure and easy to configure server).
Installing sendmail package.
#yum install sendmail
#yum install m4
Note:See our other how to on configure local YUM server.
m4 package is to compile the sendmail.cf and sendmail.mc after you have done changes to sendmail.mc. And m4 package is to compile access file … Continue Reading
This is bit important post on understanding the ports, their details and numbers.
Some FAQ related PORTS
Q. What is a port?
A port is software docking point in your machine where remote application uses for communication. This is analogy to the physical ports for entering in to the Countries.
Q. What is hardware port?
This is physical peripheral connection point to a machine from a physical device.
Q. What is a socket?
Socket is … Continue Reading
Recently we need to find RAM(aka Physical memory) used by a User.. I thought its bit easy to find RAM usage by using a group of commands and chaining them to get desired output. Let me explain what I did to get RAM usage of a user and came to know its blunder mistake to go in that way to find the RAM use by a user. Join me to dig in to this and … Continue Reading
This is a small how to check if a service is running in the server or not.
Some times we need to check the status of a service if its running or not to cross verify some thing on server.. Suppose you have edited your httpd.conf file and when restarting the service it just show start service is on. But when you try to get access to the web site the site is down. At … Continue Reading
Q:I am a Solaris guy I am new to Linux
can u please add the difference in installing packages through (( rpm and yum)) .. i am bit confused about these ……..
YUM is latest model/application in installing RPM packages on Redhat based machines. This YUM comes in to existence due to drawbacks of RPM package management.
So whats the drawbacks of this RPM package management and what are the advantage of YUM
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