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cp / usr /share/ zoneinfo /Africa/Johannesburg /etc/ localtime will set your time zone to SAST you can simply use Tab auto compl...

To backup your mysql database type the following. mysqldump -u username -ppassword database_name > dump. sql make sure not to leave a spa...

ever forgotton your root password for your mysql database, or any other users password for that matter, no problem here simply stop mysql b...

for names in user1 user2 user3 user4 user5 do useradd $names echo "anypassword" | passwd --stdin $names done or you can type...

To Remove all console beeps whilst running X type xset b off this will disable the annoying console beeps for all programs. To remove ...

This one will force your users through your Squid proxy server, even if your users are configured to access the net directly iptables -t na...

Attributes on a file can help you control what people can do with different files you can make files 1: Undeletable (Even by root) 2: Upda...

some config files are huge, and have more comments "#" and blank space than they do actual configured settings. sometimes you nee...

The last thing a cracker does after they have compromised your system is they try and remove all traces of what they have done on your syste...

In previous posts we configured NFS , client and server. Discussed auto mounting NFS shares and centralized user management . whats le...

O n a network with lots of users you will need to centralize your /etc/passwd file and your user database so that you can manage all your u...

In my previous 2 posts we setup NFS client and NFS server. There is another way of setting up the client so that the mount is temporary a...

To share a directory on your computer and make it available to other computers on your network. first make sure that nfs is installed and r...

you are able to connect to NFS shares that servers on your network have exported and made available to connect to. to see what NFS shares...

During the life of your PC you most probably will be adding more physical RAM to it, in which case you may want to also increase the amoun...

Ever needed to umount a device or file system or needed to umount your portable USB drive but you can't as you keep getting a ...

There are three special sets of permissions that can be set to files and folders. namely the Sticky Bit, 1770 (+t) the Set Group ID (sgid) 2...

The fundamentals behind the Unix Philosophy are : All Programs do only one thing but they do it really well. All programs must wo...

make sure you read my previous post "How to further secure your sever for SSH" and applying those tips first and then applying t...

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