Linux

We are now starting a series of tutorials on Linux Services. Firstly we will take a look at the DHCP Server. On openSUSE this can be managed with YaST, the graphical tool or from the…

If we installed from the DVD then the DVD will remain as "an installation source" or "software repository". This is ok but is does mean that you will be prompted to add the DVD when…

Now that we have "many users"; we may need to delegate some tasks with SUDO. Really, we should all use SUDO more. Even if you are the single administrator of a machine; sudo is still…

This week we take a look at managing those pesky users. Sure, using openSUSE we can use YaST, the GUI tool. We will look at this but we want to concentrate on the command line…

This week we take a look at the file permissions or "mode" of a file, (or directory). The permissions can be set for the user owner, the group owner and others. The available permissions are just read,…

This week we are are 5 weeks into the schedule and we take a look at the GRUB boot-loader, or the Grand Unified Boot-loader. We also refer to this a "legacy GRUB"  to differentiate from…