admin 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.
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.
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
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 boot. Typically, this is the corporate logo of your Linux distribution. But its very simple to customize it to an image of your choice. All you need is the GIMP … Read more
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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.
OSS Challenge 2005-06: RedHat scholarship offer for BE, BTech, MTech, MCA and MSc students doing their final year project. URL: http://www.in.redhat.com/community/rhscholarship.php One Day One Command =================== lsdev – Display information about installed hardware Summary: lsdev gathers information about your computer’s installed hardware from the interrupts, ioports and dma files in the /proc directory, thus giving … Read more
Unable to unmount drives due to “Drive is busy status” ? just run look if you have any open workspace on the drive location then run fuser -k? /path/where/the/drive/is/mounted or fuser -k? /device (for ex. fuser -k /dev/cdrom) then proceed as normal umounting procedure This is usefull for CDroms which are sometimes stuck on some … Read more
Unable to locate some files just run #updatedb to locate the files run locate to limit the search to top ‘x’ results run locate -n x alternatively find can also be used,it is slower since it does not maintian database like locate
Within these pages you will find a complete Samba setup guide and a?Samba FAQ for setting up a home or small office Linux /Windows network for filesharing. [Read more…]