Linux is a free, open source operating system that competes with the Windows Operating Systems and Mac OS X. Linux is widely used on a number of devices such as servers, desktops, laptops, smartphones, PDAs, game consoles, tablet computers, supercomputers, and mainframes. Linux controls only about 4.9% of the market share of desktop computers while controlling roughly 40% of the market share of servers. Linux was created and remains to be modified on a routine basis by the community at large as
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Linux Web Hosting
Linux is not only an operating system but also has capability to provide the web hosting by installing this operating system as web server. Linux is widely used in website business for hosting purpose as a solution of different types of business and domestic hosting solutions. The reason why Linux is widely used as hosting server is that Linux operating system is considered as most reliable, dependable and has extended features for hosting. Linux web hosting permits a company
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For those computer users that have both Unix and Window's operating systems, you should know that you can easily copy your Unix files from a Unix computer and transfer them to a Windows computer.
Using Client for NFS, you can transfer any existing Unix files from your Unix server to a Windows based server. It should also be noted that once you send the file system or folder from the Unix server to the Window's server, you can then move either whole folder trees in just one single step.
Trans
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The Unix grep command is a search command built into a variety of Unix based operating systems. This command line utility, whose name stems from the original Unix term which means "search globally for lines matching the regular expression, and print them," can be accessed using the command line or terminal from anywhere in the Unix operating system. When given a particular list of files to search through, the Unix grep command becomes especially useful, as it can search through any amount of tex
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Configuring a PPP Server
Linux Operating System could be used as PPP Server for configuring both dedicated and dial up connections. For dedicated connections, you should configure pppd and pppd command is used for this. rc.local file is the startup file which is needed to be edited to configure PPP server for dedicated connection. Here you will find how to setup pppoe server on your Linux server. PPP application is installed on Linux server
pppd /dev/ttyS1 115700 crtscts
PPP daemon will be st
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Securing Linux Installation
Installing Linux for securing your server depends upon how to install Linux on desktop or server. Installing Linux from untrusted source would not help in potentially securing your server and overcome on other security issues. You should install those packages only which you are in need because there is always a chance that someone could break into your server if security tasks would not be accomplished during installation and troubleshooting them.
Verify Packages a
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One of the best methods to capture a Unix terminal session is to use the `script` command.
In this example we start a script session, run a couple of commands, and then use the `exit` command to stop capturing the terminal session:
$ script
Script started, output file is typescript
$ pwd
/home/will
$ ps
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
11909 p0 Ss 0:00.05 -bash (bash)
25622 p0 S+ 0:00.01 script
25623 p1 Ss 0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/bash -i
25624 p1 R+ 0:00.00 ps
$ exit
Script done, output fil
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Configuring Linux DHCP Server
Overview of Linux DHCP
DHCP basically stand for the dynamic host configuration protocol. In other words you can say it describes that how your computer is attached with networks.. Assigning an IP address dynamically is basic task assigned to DHCP along domain name, name server, gateway, host name and net mask. DHCP can provide the other information like time server etc and has capability to save your lots configuration work in your organization and company as well
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Free derivatives of Unix can be easily downloaded via the Internet. This sets Unix apart from other proprietary operating systems like Microsoft Windows.
The different Unix versions and Unix-like operating systems available for download include FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Red Hat Fedora Linux, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, and Sun Solaris.
Those who are new to Unix or Linux can still try these operating systems by using virtual machines, without worrying about existing data or OS being affected. The u
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The grep utility is the term that refers to the collection of Unix and more recently LINUX tools that conduct searching tasks on the computer. The grep utility is used to search file contents for information matching the search criteria included with the command. The three search options available on Unix computers include grep, egrep, and fgrep. The general syntax used with a grep command is: grep -options pattern filename with options and filename being optional arguments to use with the comma
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