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Screen… A utility which gave me flexibility to use my putty as a multiplex of Unix terminals. And now is far easy for me to traverse through various shell consoles with ease. I personally found Screen very useful for me as a System Admin, you got to have many servers to watch at single point [...]
Here are a couple of interesting Unix commands. That Makes the life easier for a Unix / Linux Administrator. I will keep posting on this series. 1. List Down all the users in the system cat /etc/passwd | sed -e ‘s/:.*$//’ (Prints usernames) cat /etc/passwd | cut -d : -f1,5 (prints usernames and description of [...]
Following tutorial will guide you through mastering Vi Editor in the simplest possible way – 1. Opening a file in Vi Editor – vi <file name> vi -r <file name> [useful if the file was not saved earlier because of sudden connection failure] 2. Quit and save a file in vi editor – :q [...]
In this article I am going to discus one of the most promising feature of *nix systems. 1. What is crontab crontab is the functionality offered by almost all *nix systems, which gives us the ease to automate any action on the machine at specific time frame. 2. How the crontab looks crontab looks [...]
