This article will show you how to parse a decimal number (such as a software release number) into individual parts. For example, you can do this if you need to compare the the minor release number of two versions. There are numerous ways to accomplish the same thing using Linux and I will show you [...]

This article will show you how to install a FTP server (vsftpd) on Linux in under 30 seconds. Installing a FTP Server on Linux yum -y install vsftpd After the installation is complete, you must start the FTP server by running the command: service start vsftpd Thats all there is to it! A couple things [...]

This article will show you to how install,upgrade, and uninstall a RPM package on Linux. For additional RPM commands such as listing all installed RPMs on the box and detailed package information such as version, date created, file listing, etc. check out How to Find All Installed RPMs in Linux. To install a RPM rpm [...]

This article will show you a very simple way to find the size of a PostgreSQL database using a SQL SELECT statement. This will work on PostgreSQL version 8.3.3, but should work on older versions as well. Query SELECT pg_database.datname,pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(pg_database.datname)) AS size FROM pg_database where datname=’database_name’; Sample Result datname | size —————–+——- database_name | 15 [...]