MySQL Workbench
The MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser have been replaced by the MySQL Workbench. This article is written with Fedora 13 in mind but should work with a little modificatio nfor other Fedora versions (give or a take a few version 11, 12, 13, 14) MySQL Workbench provides DBAs and developers an integrated tools environment [...]
Changing the timezone on Fedora and CentOS
Image by courtneyBolton via Flickr Setting the timezone on CentOS. This is going to take me longer to write this article up than actually showing you how to accomplish this. This is pretty much a fairly simple operation. There are loads of timezone data files stored in: ?View Code BASH/usr/share/zoneinfo I have seen many people [...]
Changing the Hostname on Your Linux Server
Image via Wikipedia Did you just get a brand new shiny CentOS/RedHat/Fedora server and found that you have some really ugly or useless or even long hostname, well it’s really easy to change the hostname from the command line.
The Linux Shell
Image via Wikipedia Today I am going to step back a little bit and cover a subject that seems to be a pivotal make it or break it moment in most would be Linus users. For those of us who are long past the transition days between M$ and Linux, can still remember the day [...]
Using cron to run programs on a schedule
This guide is for the newbie more than the experienced Linux Pro, and maybe some of the users in between will also find it useful. So you need to automate a task to run at preset intervals, well cron is what you are looking for. cron is a Linux system process designed to execute a [...]
Binding Multiple IP Addresses to a Single Network Interface Card (NIC)
In this tutorial I will be demonstrating how to bind multiple IP addresses to a single NIC. There are many different reasons for having multiple addresses binded to a single NIC; you could run a service under a specific IP while having another service running under a different one (for example, have HTTP on one [...]
Fedora 12 (Constantine) – Just Linux?
Fedora has always been one of the strongest distributions, I mean come on they are sponsored by RedHat. Once upon a time I used Fedora religiously and there was no-one anywhere which could change my mind. One day the Fedora Project people, I’ll just say there are many which know which version I refer to [...]
Recursive Directories/Files Only
Have you ever wanted to easily and recursively chmod, chown, or any other command and only have the command execute only on directories or files. Well I am going to show you just how to accomplish this right now.
Fedora Autologin Specified User
Here is a little trick to allow a specified user to Autologin at system boot for Fedora (Fedora 12 at the time of this writing): I do suggest that if the system has curtial data or is in a somewhat public location (Dormroom, office, house with a lot of traffic through it ….) don’t do [...]
Fedora T-6000U DigiPro or Aiptek Tablet
Apparent DigiPro tablets are using Aiptek hardware and you can see this by running the following two commands with the tablet plugged in, (When you run the commands without the tablet plugged in you will notice you will not find Aiptek in the list unless of coarse you have other Aiptek hardware).
