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Set up Logical Volume Manager in Linux
Techguide You can use the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) in Linux to create virtual drives, and when used with RAID, LVM provides redundancy. Vincent Danen's tip will show you how to create your first volume.
Tags: Linux, Linux desktop OS, Open source
Automount filesystems with flexible AutoFS tool
Techguide Vincent Danen describes the AutoFS automounter and walks you through setup and configuration.
Tags: Linux desktop OS, Linux server OS, Open source
Use Windows Server 2003's qgrep utility to find information
Techguide Get a grep--a qgrep, that is. The qgrep utility in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit can help you find lines specific to an expression, allowing you to get information on the files you want.
Tags: Microsoft Server 2003
A look at Ubuntu Upstart
Techguide Ubuntu's Upstart system is an event-based replacement for SysV init that handles the starting of tasks and services during boot.
Tags: Linux, Networking, Fedora Project, Apple Mac OS X, Ubuntu, FC10, Service, Fedora Core, Grep, Vincent Danen
Secure and stable server setup with CentOS
Techguide CentOS is an operating system that is completely compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here's how to optimize CentOS setup with RPMForge and Utter Ramblings repositories.
Tags: Open source, Operating systems, Repository, Apache Software Foundation, Red Hat Inc., Plug-in, CentOS, Grep, Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Get started with the yum package manager
Techguide In this introduction to the yum package manager, you can find out about its basic configuration and some common commands.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Data Management, Gentoo, Fedora Project, Package, Red Hat Inc., Yum, Debian, Grep
Expanding text with Snippits
Techguide Find out the basics on Snippits, a Linux-based text-expanding tool similar to Typinator or TextExpander for Mac.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Ruby, Gem, Hotkey, GNOME, Tool, Apple Macintosh, Debian, Mandriva
Create an OpenVZ container
Techguide OpenVZ is an OS-level virtualization system that allows you to virtualize Linux-on-Linux, but it works on the principle of containers, not virtual machines. Here's how to create an OpenVZ container.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Virtualization, Gentoo, Fedora Project, CPU, Debian, Grep, DNS, Canada
Learn to search with grep
Techguide The grep tool is a great text-searching tool. Using grep, you can search anything that is text, be it text in a file or text in a command's output.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Linux desktop OS, Linux server OS
Get better multimedia support in Fedora
Techguide Find out how you can get improved support for MP3s, videos and games in Fedora Core 10.
Tags: Open source, Digital media, Linux, Repository, Fedora Project, Package, Video, RPM Fusion, DVD, Apple Mac OS
Manipulate process priority with nice
Techguide Modern operating systems are multi-user and multitasking, which means that multiple users and multiple tasks can be using the computer at any given time.
Tags: Open source, Linux
Power Linux with pipes and redirection
Techguide Vincent Danen shows you how to "chain" multiple programs to become extremely powerful commands, using pipes and redirection.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Linux desktop OS, Linux server OS
Extract text with awk
Techguide Like sed, awk can be used to transform text. Awk is both a general purpose text transformation tool and a programming language in its own right. Awk is especially useful in scripts and on the command-line.
Tags: Linux, Open source
Mine /proc for system information
Techguide In this tip, Vincent Danen shows you the virtual filesystem /proc for Linux. The script examples here demonstrate the wealth of system information that /proc puts at your fingertips.
Monitor network traffic with ngrep
Techguide When it comes to network monitoring, there are a number of available tools out there. However, one tool that administrators often overlook is the network grep (ngrep) tool.
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