what is ansible playbook- Ansible basic

ntroduction Ansible is an easy configuration management system that can be used to automate and organize your system configuration tasks for a large network of computers. While some other configuration management systems require many different packages to be installed on the server and client...
00:52Anuroop Melarayil

Ansible server Installation on Centos ( Not ansible tower)

Ansible is a free-software platform for configuring and managing computers which combines multi-node software deployment, ad hoc task execution, and configuration management. It manages nodes (Linux nodes must have Python 2.4 or later installed on them, Windows nodes require PowerShell 3.0 or later)...
07:14Anuroop Melarayil

USER MANAGEMENT BASICS

HERE I AM INTRODUCING SOME USER COMMAND AND THEIR USE IN OURDAILY USER ADMINISTRATION useradd - for adding users to your linux machine syntax : useradd -[option] [$username] the main options are as listed below with a example. useradd -u 508 -d /var/user1 -s /bin/bash newuser create...
01:30Anuroop Melarayil

Configuring ISCSI initiator in Linux

Internet Small Computer System Interface is a Storage Area Network (SAN) protocol,It is an Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage...

SIMPLE INCREMENTAL BACKUP USING rsync COMMAND

Backups  can be classified to two types.They are 1)Full backup The entire data will be backup will be taken every time 2)Incremental backup Incremental backup take the full backup at the first time ,from the second time it will compare the files in first backup and the files in the directory...
14:03Anuroop Melarayil

CONFIGURING PXE BOOT SERVER FOR INSTALLING LINUX WITHOUT CD OR OTHER MEDIA

FOR INSTALLING LINUX WITHOUT ANY CD OR OTHER MEDIA WE HAVE TO SETUP A PXE SERVER.PXE STANDS FOR PREBOOT EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO BOOT DIRECTLY FROM YOUR PXE SERVER AND ACCESS THE DATA FROM PXE SERVER FOR FURTHER INSTALLATION.YOU CAN ALSO USE KICKSTART TO FILE TO INSTALL FOR FULLY AUTOMATED...
12:54Anuroop Melarayil

ENABLE MINIMIZE AND MAXIMIZE IN FEDORA 17

Step 1. install gnome-tweek-tool using yum yum install gnome-tweek-tool Step 2. Run gnome tweek tool Step 3. select shell tab Step 4. change the value " arrangement of buttons ontitle bar"...

Automount NFS share by editing fstab file in centos /Rhel

For automounting NFS we have to /etc/fstab . The fstab file contains entries of partition to be auto mounted during linux system startup.please follow the video for mounting nfs share automatically. rsize - read size wsize - write size These two entries are used for bandwidth optimization ...

Linux File Sharing Using NFS(nfs server configuration on centos/Rhel)

tion NFS stands for Network File System . NFS is a distributed file system protocol devoloped by sun microsystems at the year of 1984.Using nfs users can acces the shared data on other computers it also allows to automount the file system by adding entries to /etc/fstab. Auto mounting NFS topic we will...

Secure linux system by using GRUB PASSWORD

oIt is very easy to change our root password when somebody get the physical acess to your system. In order to protect your root password  we can protect your GRUB using a password.The Grub password will restrict the physical user to enter to single user mode by editing the kernel parameter at the...

SELINUX BASICS

Here i am going to explain the basic configuration of selinux.Through theses steps you can easily administrate your selinux policies. Here is the simple step of enabling and disabling policies of different application. In the above video i am enabling the anonymous write for ftp .The first step is...

Installing ubuntu on windows partiton

It is very easy to install ubuntu on your windows partiton with out formatting it .what we have to do is just put the cd to the windows machine and boot windows and open the drive.the video will take you through the further step Tha...
23:33Anuroop Melarayil

SET USER PERMISSIONS IN LINUX

It is very easy to set user permissions for a file in Linux.For setting the user permissions in Linux we use ACL. ACL means access control list.For enabling user permissions in Linux we have to edit the file /etc/fstab and add the entry acl.In the video ,for setting user permissions on my root (/) partition...

SCO UNIX 5.5 INSTALLATION

This our first video training on UNIX .I am directly going to the video. Tha...
11:09Anuroop Melarayil

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Installation

Ubuntu is one of the popular Linux Distributions.The Latest version of Ubuntu is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS .Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) was released on 26 april 2012.Ubuntu 12.04 is fourth long term support version from ubuntu.One of the main changes of ubuntu 12.04 LTS is its fast booting.Here I am...
04:23Anuroop Melarayil

HP LASERJET PRINTER INSTALLATION ON RHEL / CENTOS

Hp printers are coming in a lot of varieties. Hp printers are now common at any office are because they very easy to manage and install. In windows Installation of hp printer will take less than one minute.But for Linux Installing hp printers became a headache .Here i am providing you a video session...

Common Ftp Folder for all FTP users

As the requirement from some some of our blog user,i am forced to discuss about configuring a common ftp folder for all users.The configuration file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf  contains all configuration of our vsftp.so we can configure the common ftp folder for all users by editing this file. The...