Operating Systems

Adnan Khurshid on January 28th, 2011

The run level determines which services will run and which will be stopped during system initialization. The run levels are given below:    0   Halt the system.   1    Single-user mode (for system maintenance).   2    Local Multiuser with Networking but without network service (like NFS)   3    Full Multiuser with Networking   4    Not Used   5    Full Multiuser […]

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Adnan Khurshid on January 26th, 2011

  The start-up kernel messages in the Linux system comes like a burst and it is difficult to analyze those messages while the system boots up. However, after the operating system is loaded, you can view those messages with ‘dmesg’ command. This command will display the messages of the last time boot. Check the command […]

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Adnan Khurshid on January 26th, 2011

There are two methods to change the IP address in SUN Solaris server. 1) Temporary Method As the name shows, the temporary method changes the IP address of the machine only till the time it is running continuously. As soon as, the server is restarted, the IP address is reverted back to the one configured […]

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admin on January 21st, 2011

Most of the times, this is among the first task that you do after installing the operating system – enabling the FTP service. To enable FTP on SuSE linux, you have to undertake some simple steps explained as follows with snapshots. STEP 1: Edit the file /etc/ftpusers and comment the line with root just as […]

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