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How to mount NFS Filesystems at Boot Time

April 22, 2009 – 5:42 am

Network File System (NFS) is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984. With NFS, clients can mount filesystems across the network that are being offered by NFS servers and can work with them as if they were filesystems mounted from local disks. NFS is a simple and widely used method [...]

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Using redirections: 2>&1 (Part 2 of 2)

April 19, 2009 – 10:21 pm

If you go through enough shell scripts, you will notice the frequent use of 2>&1.  What does it mean and how it works? We have briefly introduced standard in (stdin) and standard out (stdout).  In the command line interface and also in shell programming, these are represented as follows: 0 Standard In (STDIN) 1 Standard [...]

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Using redirections; <, >, >> (Part 1 of 2)

April 19, 2009 – 9:51 pm

Redirections can be sometimes confusing to learn and utilize effectively.  We will try to explain it in the simplest possible way that we think is effective.  Please feel free to suggests a better approach to explaining it. Firstly, the 3 basic redirections. < ; this less than symbol is to instruct the shell to read [...]

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Using the “date” command and it’s % options

April 17, 2009 – 12:03 am

Well, you can’t really get a date with this command but it is a very useful command to know for administrative tasks as well as for automatic documentation through scripting. However, the date command’s options often baffles a lot of people (well, in my administering SuSE Linux class anyway) especially when they read about the [...]

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How to remove GRUB from MBR of Hard Drive

April 8, 2009 – 6:48 am

If you are running multiboot operating systems from your hard drive then you will require GRUB. It is a boot loader package from the GNU Project. GRUB is the reference implementation of the Multiboot Specification, which allows a user to have several different operating systems on their computer at once, and to choose which one [...]

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