In Linux installing software can be done in more than one way. Software installed on a platform is always reccommended to be installed from the repositories using the yum or apt tools. These tools have a lot of logic in them to check for package consistency, resolve dependencies , compare local version to the one…
The /etc/passwd file stores essential information, which is required during login i.e. user account information. /etc/passwd is a text file, that contains a list of the system’s accounts, giving for each account some useful information like user ID, group ID, home directory, shell, etc. It should have general read permission as many utilities, like lsuse…
EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a repository of (as the name implies) A collection of packages not directly released with the given linux distribution release cycle. By default these packages are not available but all the wiring in the amazon AMI instance is already done all one needs to do is enable it….
We all had the problem of needing to backup a folder or an entire system from a machine before decommissioning or as a postfix backup solution only to find tarring aint gonna work cause you have very little space left. Also there are folders you want to avoid tarring since they contain logs or system…
