linux
Change default applications (e-mail client, Web Browser etc) – Ubuntu
How to change my default Web browser which came to my mind when every time konqueror was opening as browser and I wanted to see Mozilla Firefox. Below are the Screen shots for Kubuntu i.e. Ubuntu with KDE and Ubuntu with GNOME. 1) System Settings -> Default Applications: 2) System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications [...]
Linux beginner’s Guide
Following presentation covers wide variety of things in linux: 1. Virtual Machines and Installation 2. Remote access 3. User management 4. File system 5. Networking 6. Backing up 7. Services 8. Scheduling Jobs using cron 9. Vim 10. Rsync and many more Linux beginner's Workshop View more presentations from futureshocked.
Cleaning up files – Clean up shell script
Few days back I wrote a post about, how to use shell script to backup mysql database. Using this shell script you will have lot of data files which will be created every day. You can not just keep all these files as backup because generally you need DB backup of previous day or few [...]
Checking/Monitoring Bandwidth – Linux (ubuntu)
There are various web sites using which you can check bandwidth of you internet connection. Details of these web sites can be found at: 1. Test your internet connection speed – Few more websites 2. Test your internet connection speed I recently received one comment on one of the posts above which asks about checking [...]
Backup MySql – Shell Script
Here is a Shell script using which Mysql Database instance can be backed up. You can schedule this script using cron or any other scheduling utility to run once in a day and take backup of all database schemas in your database. #!/bin/bash # Shell script to backup MySql database MyUSER=”mysql_user_name” MyPASS=”mysql_user_password” MyHOST=”localhost” MYSQL=”$(which mysql)” [...]