November 8, 2008 2:59 PM
Posted by: Xjlittle
/root,
chage,
Linux,
passwd,
passwordI occasionally see the post Help! root can't login on some of the discussion boards around the net. Generally this is for two reasons. Either the account has expired or a forgotten password.
The forgotten password is straightforward to fix. When booting the machine enter the grub menu. Your...
September 13, 2008 12:26 AM
Posted by: Xjlittle
/root,
centos,
grub,
grub.conf,
initrd,
Linux,
menu.lst,
red hat,
vmlinuzIf you've administered or customized Linux long enough you've no doubt created a situation at some point where, during the boot process, that GRUB throws an error. We're going to discuss some of these situations below along with ways to work through them.
If a file name or partition in the GRUB...
September 11, 2008 12:36 AM
Posted by: Xjlittle
/boot,
/root,
grub,
grub.conf,
Linux,
menu.lstRed Hat and subsequently Fedora and CentOS use the the GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) to initialize the kernel and boot into Linux. I'm going to look at some of the common error messages possible when booting Linux and how to edit the GRUB boot loader to test and fix the errors.
GRUB has 6...
September 8, 2008 3:37 PM
Posted by: Xjlittle
/bin,
/boot,
/home,
/root,
/sbin,
fhs,
file system,
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard,
kernel,
Linux,
linux kernelI ran across the following jpeg file on another blog. I thought it a reasonable idea to distribute this as much as possible as it is a very good representation of the Linux file...
