Difference Between GZIP and TAR

Posted by: Shailesh Posted on: August 28, 2012 Comments: 0

In Short: 1. Gzip is a compression tool used to reduce the size of a file 2. Tar is an archiver used to to combine multiple files into one 3. Gzip and Tar are usually used in tandem to create Tarballs that are compressed significantly 4. Extracting an individual file can take a lot longer with zipped tarballs than with other formats Brief:- GZIP vs TAR The .tar.gz extension is…

Kickstart Installation in Linux

Posted by: Shailesh Posted on: August 5, 2012 Comments: 0

Many system administrators would prefer to use an automated installation method to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux on their machines. To answer this need, Red Hat created the kickstart installation method. Using kickstart, a system administrator can create a single file containing the answers to all the questions that would normally be asked during a typical installation. Kickstart files can be kept on a single server system and read by…

How to Install TeamViewer on CentOS

Posted by: Shailesh Posted on: August 1, 2012 Comments: 0

How to Install TeamViewer on CentOS Steps to Install Team Viewer 5 (all version) on Linux ( Fedora, RHEL, CentOS) Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 1) Download Team Viewer 5. Execute Following Command on Linux Terminal. wget -c http://www.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux.rpm Or You can also click on above link to Download using your Browser. 2) Now It’s Time to Install Team Viewer 5 on Linux. Execute Following Command as root. rpm -ivh teamviewer_linux.rpm…

Linux Boot Sequences

Posted by: Shailesh Posted on: July 26, 2012 Comments: 0

Linux Boot Sequences Mostly Linux boot sequence is parted in 6 Stages 1. Bios- Basic Input/Output 2. MBR- Master Boot Record (keeps Grub information) 3. GRUB/LILO- GRUB(Grand Unified Bootloader) or LILO- Linux Loader(The old technique) 4. Kernel 5. Init- keeps all init processes. 6. Runlevel- starts all init processes.

Linux Commands Documentation

Posted by: Shailesh Posted on: July 13, 2012 Comments: 0

Linux Commands Documentation Starting with A # a2ps- Formats files for printing on a PostScript printer # AMSTeX- formatting documents with TeX, AMS version # AMSLaTeX- AMS version of LaTeX # at- allows you to run programs at a later date # awk- pattern scanning and string manipulation language, developed by GNU. See also mawk, a POSIX implementation of awk Starting with B # bash- The bourne again shell, one…