When a user starts a command, it runs with the permissions of that
user. What if you want to allow them to run some commands with root
permissions? You can, and that’s called suid.You can set a command to
be suid root with the chmod command. This will make it run as root even
if a user starts it. Here is how to set mybin suid root:
chmod +s mybin
Note that you must be very careful with this option.
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Mr Mukund has developed a Perl extension for an Interactive Voice
Response (IVR) System with play back and voice menu options.
URL: http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=IVRS
(Thanks FSUG-Bangalore)
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bzip2 — A Block-sorting file (de)compressor.
Summary:
bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text
compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally
considerably better than the conventional compressors, & approaches
the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
IndLinuX project was started to provide Indian Language support for
GNU/Linux OS at both console and XLibrary level.
URL: http://www.tenet.res.in/Donlab/Indlinux/
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adjtimex – Display/Set the kernel time variables.
Summary:
This program gives you raw access to the kernel time variables, like
clock tick, frequency, offset, PPL Time constant, etc.
Step I : Download and Installation IF you have full installation of Fedora Core 3 then you have ht://Dig installed. Check whether you have htDig…
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The below tip will help you to increa ur hard drive output
caution: Proper care has to be taken while using this ,and be sure of what you are doing
follow this link
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html
Random blogs on Gnu/Linux mantained by :Jeremy,(Admin , linuxquestions.org) Read the blog
The splash image is the image shown in the background when GRUB (the GRand Unified Bootloader) is displaying the list of operating systems you can…
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dos2unix — DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter.
Summary:
Each OS will indicate the line end using Line Feed (LF,10) or Carriage
Return (CR,13). So when transferring a file from DOS to Linux, you have
to convert the Line end from DOS format to Linux format.
dos2unix will convert the DOS/MAC Text file to Unix format.
for viewing man mages in Konqueror just type #somecommand for example #mount in the address bar of konqueror window and you will be able to…