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How to open a file in Atom editor from a Mac terminal?

Mar 17, 2017 - by kurinchilamp /Linux Server/ 488 Views
When atom installs, it sets up a symbolic link to the location where it is installed. You can open a file or folder in atom by using the following commands a) Open the editor $ atom b) Open a file $ atom index.html c) Open atom in the current folder $ atom .
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Apache webserver (httpd) service installation on CentOS 7 Linux

Jul 20, 2015 - by kurinchilamp /Linux Server/ 386 Views
First set up the httpd (web) service $ yum install httpd If httpd service is already installed, update the service $ yum update httpd Now, start the web server $ service httpd start Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start httpd.service Check the status of the web server $ service httpd status (more…)
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Setup Virtualbox Additions on Centos 7 to share files

Jul 12, 2015 - by kurinchilamp /Linux Server/ 354 Views
First step is to install dependencies $ sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools" $ sudo yum install kernel-devel Mount the Virtualbox Additions CD ISO. You should download the virtualbox additions iso from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/ depending on your version of Virtual Box. $ sudo mkdir /media/cdrom/ $ sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom/ $ cd /media/cdrom $ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Before this step, create a shared folder in your host system. Say for example, if you created a shared folder named "CentosShare" in the host system you will follow the steps given below to access the share from within Centos. $ mkdir ~/share $ mount -t vboxs CentosShare ~/share
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PHP SYSTEM WARNING: ‘date(): It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings

Apr 15, 2015 - by kurinchilamp /Linux Server/ 374 Views
Edit /etc/php.ini and add the timezone setting within the file. For a list of timezone settings, visit http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php [Date] ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions ; http://php.net/date.timezone date.timezone = America/New_York
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How to avoid search engines from crawling your website?

Apr 14, 2015 - by kurinchilamp /Linux Server/ 370 Views
Your answer is to create a robots.txt file in the root of your web directory and to have the code setting given below in the file.
User-agent: * Disallow: /
You can read more about Robots exclusion protocol, here
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Linux: How the password is stored, salted and hashed securely?

Jun 14, 2013 - by kurinchilamp /Linux Server/ 420 Views
In earlier systems, passwords were stored in the file /etc/passwd and they were not encrypted. After the user is created, an entry gets recorded in /etc/passwd with 'x' in the second column instead of the acutal password. $ useradd timmy $ cat /etc/passwd timmy:x:1002:1003::/home/timmy:/bin/sh For security reasons, passwords are now stored in the file /etc/shadow and they are encrypted. Password was not set initially, when the user was created. This is indicated by !! mark (in RedHat, ! - Debian) $ cat /etc/shadow timmy:!!:15870:0:99999:7::: (more…)
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