Linux Password Protect Files

May 27, 2011

If you store private information on your Linux system and you want to prevent other people who use the system from viewing your private files, you need to password protect these files. Solution is to use following commands to encrypt or decrypt files with a password.

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Zipping And Unzipping Files Under Linux

May 27, 2011

Neither the zip nor the unzip utilities are included in the default install of Linux. To install them from shell prompt, you must be a root user and type following two commands to install zip and unzip program.

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How To Check BIOS Information In Linux

May 25, 2011

Under Linux operating systems use the dmidecode command to check system BIOS information. The output from the dmidecode command include the BIOS version, Bios release date, BIOS vendor, BIOS language and other BIOS characteristics available on the system.

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How To Start/Stop/Restart Cron Service In Linux

May 24, 2011

A cron is a utility that allows tasks to automatically run in the background of the system at regular intervals by use of the cron daemon. Crontab (CRON TABle) is a file which contains the schedule of cron entries to be run and at what times they are to be run. This can be quite […]

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How To Limit File Upload Size On Apache

May 24, 2011

To limit the total size of the HTTP request body sent from the client use LimitRequestBody Directive.

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RedHat / CentOS 32 Bit Support 4GB Or More RAM ( Memory )

May 23, 2011

If you are running RedHat / CentOS 32 bit and have 4 GB or more RAM use the Linux kernel compiled for PAE capable machines. Your machine may not show up total 4GB ram with 32 bit architecture servers. All you have to do is install PAE kernel package.

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