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Crontab Issue: Cron Job is Not Working When Using Percentage

SathiyaMoorthy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:03:38 +0000

Question: What is the reason my cron job does not gets executed when i use percentage ‘%’ in my cron job. How to solve this issue ? Answer:‘%’ is the new line specifier in cron command. Thus when you use % it is interpreted as a new line in the cron job. Let us see how [...]

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Top 5 Best Linux Text Editors

Ramesh Natarajan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:03:08 +0000

As part of the contest that was conducted a while back, I got around 200 responses from the geeky readers who choose their favorite Linux text editor. Based on this data, the top spot in the best Linux text editor goes to… Vi / Vim Editor Vim won by a huge margin and I don’t think this is [...]

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Daddy, I found it!, 15 Awesome Linux Find Command Examples (Part2)

SathiyaMoorthy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:03:34 +0000

A while back we reviewed 15 practical find command examples (Part I). Find command can do lot more than just searching for files based on name. In this article (Part 2), let us discuss 15 advanced examples of find command including — finding files based on the time it is accessed, modified or changed, finding files [...]

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5 Practical Examples To Delete / Remove Directory in Linux

Ramesh Natarajan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:03:04 +0000

Question: How can I delete empty directory, directory with files and sub directories in Linux / Unix ? Also, how can I use an alias effectively for rm and rmdir command? Answer: You can delete empty directory using rmdir command, or directory with content using rm command. Deletion can be done interactively, recursively, forcefully, or through [...]

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How To Identify Major and Minor Number For Block Devices in Unix

Ramesh Natarajan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:00:26 +0000

Question: How do I find out the major and minor number of my block device / partition / mount points / SAN disk / filesystem? Why do you need to know major and minor device number? Sometimes you may need to know the major and minor number of devices for various reasons. For example, sar utility [...]

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The Ultimate Guide to Create Users in Linux / Unix

Ramesh Natarajan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:02:12 +0000

Creating users in Linux or Unix system is a routine task for system administrators. Sometimes you may create a single user with default configuration, or create a single user with custom configuration, or create several users at same time using some bulk user creation method. In this article, let us review how to create Linux [...]

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How To Mount and View ISO File as Root and Regular User in Linux

Ramesh Natarajan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:03:16 +0000

ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization, which has defined the format for a disk image. In simple terms iso file is a disk image. ISO files are typically used to distribute the operating system. Most of the linux operating system that you download will be on ISO format. If you have downloaded an Linux ISO file [...]

How To Convert Files To Different Formats Without Using Software

SathiyaMoorthy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:03:52 +0000

Imagine the situation where you are working on a huge project and the project manager uses Windows and created a project document using Microsoft word 2007 document and send it to the whole team including you. You can call the project manager and ask him to convert it to txt or pdft and send it [...]

How To Fix – Google Gears google.gears.factory.create failed Error Message

Ramesh Natarajan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:01:28 +0000

Question: How to Fix “Google Gears google.gears.factory.create failed” Error message that I received when browsing a website? Sometimes when you are browsing a website, you may get Google Gears error message as show below. Fig: google.gears.factory.create failed error message Answer: It is possible that when you initially visited that particular website, you would’ve said Deny in the Gears [...]

Top 5 Best Linux OS Distributions

Ramesh Natarajan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:02:57 +0000

As part of the contest that was conducted a while back, I got around 200 responses from the geeky readers who choose their favorite Linux distributions. Based on this data, the top spot in the best Linux distribution list goes to… Ubuntu My personal favorite was Ubuntu for desktop (#1 in this list) and Red Hat for servers [...]