This document contains an overview of the principal RPM commands for installing, uninstalling, upgrading, querying, listing, and checking RPM packages on your Red Hat Linux system.
This document uses apache rpm httpd-2.0.49-4.i386.rpm , as an example.

About RPM naming conventions
All rpms follow the similar naming conventions
package name version [...]

Passwordless access for ssh and sftp , How to do sftp & ssh without password – Step by Step
This a real life example of configuring passwordless access for two users . The user ‘web’ in this case needs a secure password less access to another user james in a server ‘devserver’
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Follow the Steps to [...]

Unix date format is needed  in the scripts, timestamped log files and  script generated reports .  This article attempts to simply date formatting with several examples .  Date command in Unix is used to format date as well as time . First portion of this article covers Date  function and the second portion has the  [...]

Date time formatting in PHP
Many scripts written in php need date and time function . PHP has many predfined date formats and you can also customized it as per your need .
Here are some of the date format examples and additional details for php.
Examples
Variable $today has different formats as we set the format [...]

NISplus  is network which allows you to store client information at a
central place where all the clients have access. This enables system
administrators to manage a group of servers from a central place.
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Frequently asked questions about Solaris Certification are discussed

Strategies for Multiple Choice Certification Exams are discussed

Sample Question – Solaris Certification
Following are some sample questions . These are some of the representative questions and is meant to demonstrate the type of question you might expect in Solaris Certification examination and plan your study accordingly. No answers are given out of the belief that anyone preparing for the exam should be [...]

Understanding and setting up Solstice DiskSuite 4.2.1 in Solaris

Explanations of some frequently used geek terms