First, check the current timezone in your system by using the date command. Here the timezone is set to PST. Change Timezone in Centos/RHEL 7/8 We can use the timedatectl command to change the current timezone. First, let’s list all timezones. Now use the following command to change the timezone to Change Timezone in Centos/RHEL […]
Telnet is a network protocol, used to provide bi-directional text-oriented communication facility. Note: Telnet in is insecure protocol and it is recommended that you use ssh server. WARNING! Installing telnet on your server makes the server open to an un-encrytpted communications, it’s not recommended to use telnet, use Secure (SSH). Telnet Server installation In Debian/Ubuntu user@techinx$ […]
There was an issue, with IBM installation manager not able to install or start in RHEL 6.* series. This issue is fixed by IBM and is available in Fix central for download. The fix name is agent.installer.linux.gtk.x86_64_1.6.0.20120831_1216. If you are using the old IBM installation manager, during install you may face errors like this. [root@rhel64]# ./install […]
In Linux/Unix there is an environment variable called “http_proxy” which can be configured for text based internet sessions. This variable is used by wget, curl, lynx etc. How to set http_proxy variable Type the following command to set proxy server #export http_proxy=http://10.99.2.197:8080 How to set the http_proxy variable globally #vi /etc/profile add the following lines. #export […]
Symmetric Encryption Symmetric encryption is the oldest and best-known technique. A secret key, which can be a number, a word, or just a string of random letters, is applied to the text of a message to change the content in a particular way.This might be as simple as shifting each letter by a number of […]
Recently I had updated my System which was dual booted (Debian and Windows 7) from Windows 7 to Windows 8, During the installation process I had messed up with Grub boot loader. Once after the upgrade my Grub has vanished and I was able to boot up only Windows 8. A bit disappointed thinking about […]
Ubuntu 13.10 Code named “Saucy Salamander” is released for the desktop, server, phone, and cloud – download it here. Ubuntu 13.10 introduces the first release of Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu Core for the new 64-bit ARM systems (the “arm64” architecture, also known as AArch64 or ARMv8), and improved AppArmor confinement. In addition to these flagship […]
Red Hat has announced new Red Hat Storage Test Drives through Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving enterprise customers a free hands-on experience with Red Hat Storage Server on the AWS cloud. As per Red Hat blogs the Test Drives to be available later this month. Red Hat Storage Server running on the AWS infrastructure offers customers […]
Most Linux users come across a question “is there an office Communicator for Linux?” And the answer is “Yes, We have PIDGIN” For Linux users Pidgin (IM Client) provides access to the Lync functionality and therefore serves the purpose, even though we don’t have features like audio/video calls and sharing. For making Pidgin to work […]
Wine 1.6 was officially released, wine 1.6 release comes just one year after the previous release of wine 1.4. The current release of 1.6 release has about 10,000 individual changes. Among the wine 1.6 highlights are OpenGL DIB support, RandR 1.2/1.3 support, the Mac driver for not having to rely upon X11, Direct3D off-screen rendering, […]