• News

Disable a Startup of Service in Ubuntu

If for whatever reason you stop using a certain service in your Ubuntu install and would like to disable automatic …

• Advanced topics How-To Solaris

How to See Future File Timestamps in Solaris

I know I’ve spoken about timestamps already, but I’d like to further expand the topic.

While there’s a …

• linux

How to Check if Any Users Were Added or Deleted on Your Linux System

Yesterday in my post on numeric userids instead of usernames, I touched briefly the problem of recovering the username …

• how-to

What to Do if Numeric ID Is Shown Instead of Username

As you know, every file in your Unix OS belongs to some user and some group. It is very easy to confirm the ownership of …

• basic

How to Create User Accounts in Unix

If you want to quickly create a new user account in your Unix OS, it ca be done with just one line

• News

New Section on This Blog: Unix Commands

I’ve just integrated a new section: Unix Commands. The long-term plan is to have a categorized list of commands …

• Questions & Answers

Confirm the Day of the Week Based on a Timestamp

I recently created a Unix Questions and Answers page, if you have a Unix question – feel free to ask it there using the …

• advanced

How to Update Atime and Mtime for a File in Unix

If you remember, all files and directories in Unix filesystems have three timestamps associated with them – atime, ctime …

• News

Ubuntu 8.10 – Intrepid Ibex – Is Here!

Right on time, next release of Ubuntu Linux has arrived. Ubuntu 8.10, codenamed Intrepid Ibex, is officially out.