Security and preventing unauthorised persons from getting access to files and information has been a long-standing fundamental principle in the world of Linux. Computer theft is a thriving phenomenon (and business) in the world we live in today. So thinking about how to protect your files is a must. So if you have any sensitive… Read More »
The next tool in line of compression tools is the tape archiver (tar). Though the command somewhat has some complex (though capable) set of command line options and syntax, like we have been doing with others we’ve talked about (gzip and bzip) you can quickly learn to use tar by remembering a few simple invocations… Read More »
In a previous post I showed that the input-output backbone (if I can say that) of Linux is well entrenched in the file system (FS). Now I would try to show how the standard input and output – by extension error – processing can be modified in Linux. That is the tweaking of the standard… Read More »
