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RPM Package Management – I

Posted by Surendra Anne | Jun 5, 2008 | Administration |

Package management in Linux is a very much tedious job when compared to Windows systems. Basically if we consider windows it’s very much easy even for LKG student will install the packages(in windows we will call it as software) very much easy main windows software packages are .exe or .bat or .msi or .cab files we will just double click it will install the package for you with minimal system know this is all about windows but coming to Linux it’s somewhat complex procedure to install a package below are some of the example ways you can install the packages. 1. Through shell script 2. .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz files 3. .rpm files 4. .deb files(These are the software packages for Debian flavor of Linux) 5. YUM In order to install packages in Linux one should have depth and width of full concept then only we can troubleshoot the problems what we faced while installation so coming into the topic directly I have divided this entire document into two parts One is dealing with basic installation of packages The second one is building rpm packages for your requirements like say for your architecture (i386,1686 AMD etc) PART1: Basic rpm package management Example1: For checking the package is install on your system or not #rpm -q package name #rpm -q httpd Example2: For checking what are all the packages installed on...

GOOSH

Posted by Surendra Anne | Jun 2, 2008 | News |

Actually i am Google centric guy,who always romming around google google google to find out what Google is inventing day today. I am regular reader of googlesystem.blogspot.com and blogoscoped.com blogs, both the sites are totaly discuessing google releated information/hacks etcSo comming to the point why i am saying all this to u? that too in my linux blog? any guesses?Ans : Today I found of some strange site from the above mentioned blogs ie goosh.orgThis one kind of shell ie. google+shell= goosh where you can search the entire web/blogs/images, you name it you will get it by just typing commnds. When we log in to goosh.org we will get the following prompt guest@goosh.org:/web> So here we can type what ever you want to search with in the web. If you want to search only in blog we have to say blog then the prompt will change to the below thingguest@goosh.org:/web>blogguest@goosh.org:/blog>So from now what ever you type this will seach in only blogs, if you want to know more about it just type help you will get all the help you want. guest@goosh.org:/web>helphelp command aliases parameters function web (search,s,w) [keywords] google web search lucky (l) [keywords] go directly to first result images (image,i) [keywords] google image search wiki (wikipedia) [keywords] wikipedia search clear (c) clear the screen help (man,h,?) [command] displays help text news (n) [keywords] google news search blogs...

DNS Server Syntax Checking

Posted by Surendra Anne | Jun 1, 2008 | Servers |

Checking named.conf and DNS zone files for syntax errors such as dots, spaces, and coma’s etc is a tedious job to find and pinpoint them. Its very difficult to find where is the error in named.conf file. So for that we can use named-checkconf command to help us.. Syntax #named-checkconf configurationfileloc Example : #named-checkconf /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf When you execute above command it will show you the errors if any according to line number, so it’s very much easy to check where we did the mistake. For Checking Zone files(both forword and reverse)there is one more command named-checkzone Syntax : #named-checkzone...

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RPM Package Management – I

GOOSH

DNS Server Syntax Checking

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