Make your pen drive bootable

#chmod o+t mydir

This feature is extremely useful for group projects where multiple users are using the content from one single directory.

Changing port of ftp and ssh

Here is a simple tip to change the default ports of ftp and ssh.

/etc/ssh/sshd_ con g and add the following line:

Port 222

listen_port=2100 ##add this line

ftp localhost 2100

ln -s /home/test ~/Desktop/abc

—Tulika Narang, n.tulika@gmail.com Restart the service of ssh to make the changes effective. Now you need to specify the port number using option

#ssh localhost -p 222

In order to change the port of ftp server, / etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf Restart the service of ftp. Now run the following command to check if the listening ports have been changed or not:

You can even check the open port using the netstat or nmap commands.

—Sumit Chauhan, sumit1203@gmail.com

Creating a desktop shortcut in Ubuntu

Here is a command to create a desktop shortcut for any folder:

This will create a shortcut of the folder named test / home/test abc.

not only to Ubuntu.

—Shakir Memon, shakir22cs@gmail.com

but can boot using a USB device such as a USB pen drive, the following alternative method can be used to boot Linux.

following command:

#fdisk -l

/dev/sdb diskboot.img for redhat installation

dvd to root of the USB disk.

execute the following command:

#dd if=/root/diskboot.img of=/dev/sdb

Log in message

—Suresh Jagtap, smjagtap@gmail.com

Here is how to get greeted with a welcome message every time you log in. Create a shell script in your home directory as welcome.sh:

Now add welcome.sh command in Linux prints a random epigram.

—Sachin Selokar, sachinselokar@gmail.com