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Back in SUSE lesson 5 we did look at the GRUB bootloader. GRUB is fine but for servers it may have more features than we need. Citrix in XenServer 6 has changed from GRUB to…
The Urban PenguinOctober 2, 2013
If you need to remotely access your Linux host it is not uncommon to use PuTTY on a Windows platform to initiate your Secure Shell or SSH connection. PuTTY, which is free to use would…
The Urban PenguinOctober 2, 2013
Software management may be achieved as we have seen with specific tools such as zypper, underlying though on most Linux distributions is the RPM system, Red Hat Package Manager. In many ways MSI files and…
The Urban PenguinOctober 2, 2013
The NTP, or Network Time Protocol, Server is aonother essential service in Linux. The need for having accurate time on Linux and other Operating Systems should be self-evident. NTP works on UDP port 123, the…
The Urban PenguinOctober 2, 2013
The DNS server is the subject of this lesson. We look at installing the DNS server and managing it through both YaST and from the command line. The software package to install in BIND, the…
The Urban PenguinOctober 2, 2013