For people who have used yum on Fedora, you must have seen that couple of packages that you require are on Livna and couple of them on DAG and some others on FreshRPMs and Dribble. And for those of …

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/category/linux/">Bookmark this category delay: 2d On screen display of a command. $ date|osd_cat This is very useful if you need to show someone …

A lot of times there is a need to log all the messages and the output of the shell to the file or syslog. Sometimes I need that for some user too. script command can be used to do this but then …

Just for fun, somedays back I was reading the top command. This command is something that I have been using since long time and have never read the man page so I thought let me do that. And yes, it …

If you are managing a remote site, web server that you do not have direct access to (terminal or ssh) and you have to do it with cpanel, then I know how much pain it is. I had the same issue until …

<a href="http://digitaldump.wordpress.com/projects/rednotebook/" target="_blank">RedNotebook is a diary and journel for the *nix OS. This is a great software with some very …

For all the windows developer out there, it is impossible to switch to Linux just because someone is looking for the Windows exe. Sooooooo bad. Not any more. There has been the MinGW compiler (and …