Even thought there are several ways of doing this, this is by far the quickest and easiest way of changing the time zone on your Linux installation. Linux looks into /etc/localtime to determine time zone and local time. Here you can place either time zone file, or just create a symbolic link. Remember that time zone files are located under /usr/share/zoneinfo/ Continue reading “How to change time zone in Linux OS”
Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS – The perfect server setup
In this how-to I will show you how to install and configure Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS, Apache web server, PHP and MySQL database server and backup to Google Drive (grive). Ubuntu is one of the most common version of the linux server OS on the web today, with almost 35% market share. It is light and easy to manage, even for the novice. After all, you need to know about 10-15 commands to get you started with Linux OS. The rest of the knowledge will be picked up on the way. The best way of learning is learning by doing.
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Location of the Crontab files
Most of the users are used to edit crontab file using crontab -e, and that is just fine, but where are actual files placed? By defualt, Linux stores cron files under /var/spool/cron/crontab. All cron jobs are stored after the username as per /etc/passwd file. To edit the file directly, you just need to open the file in your favorite text editor and make changes.