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Setting up a serial console |
| Post date: February 19, 2007, 19:02 Category: Miscellaneous Views: 1650 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: This tutorial will show you how to set up a serial console on a Linux system, and connect to it via a null modem cable. This is quite useful if your Linux server is in a headless configuration (no keyboard or monitor), as it allows you to easily get a console on the system if there are any problems with it (especially network problems, when SSH is not available). In the end, the GRUB menu will appear over the serial link, as will the bootup messages (output when booting the system). I am using Debian Etch on the server and Ubuntu Edgy on my client, although this should work on any Linux distribution. |
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VirtualBox On FC6 / CentOS 4 / OpenSuSE 10.2 |
| Post date: February 6, 2007, 20:02 Category: Software Views: 1631 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: This tutorial shows how to install and use VirtualBox on Fedora Core 6, CentOS 4, and OpenSuSE 10.2. InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL). |
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Speed Up Firefox web browser |
| Post date: February 5, 2007, 19:02 Category: Software Views: 1620 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: Mozilla Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation. Started as a fork of the browser component (Navigator) of the Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the flagship |
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Custom Monitoring MySQL and SNMP with BixData |
| Post date: February 3, 2007, 00:02 Category: Software Views: 1390 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: With BixData you can monitor your servers as well as VMware and Xen. BixData includes pre-built plugins for things like CPU, Memory, Disk, etc. but any good monitoring tool needs to be customizable. BixData includes the basic ability to run scripts and record their exit values, similar to Nagios Plugins. BixData 2.7 adds support for importing data in more complex formats. This allows you to monitor almost anything. I'll go through the steps showing you how to monitor MySQL locally where an agent is installed and then the steps to monitor a device remotely through SNMP. The advantage of BixData is that any data available through a BixAgent works with the standard tools such as the situation room, scoreboards, notifications and the reporting system. All data are stored in standard SQL tables and are easily accessible. |
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How To Set Up An IRC Server And Anope IRC Services |
| Post date: February 1, 2007, 19:02 Category: Installing Views: 2089 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: This tutorial describes how to set up and run an UnrealIRCD server on OpenSuSE 10.2 and Fedora Core 6. It also shows how to install Anope IRC services. Anope is a set of Services for IRC networks that allows users to manage their nicks and channels in a secure and efficient way, and administrators to manage their network with powerful tools. |
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Back Up Linux And Windows Systems With BackupPC |
| Post date: January 28, 2007, 21:01 Category: System Views: 2332 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: This tutorial shows how you can back up Linux and Windows systems with BackupPC. BackupPC acts as a server and is installed on a Linux system, and from there it can connect to all Linux and Windows systems in your local network to back them up and restore them without interfering with the user's work on that system. On the clients minimal to no configuration is needed. BackupPC supports full and incremental backups, and it comes with a neat web frontend for the administrator and normal user so that backups and recoveries can be managed through a web browser. It should be noted, however, that BackupPC does file-based backups, not bit-wise backups like Ghost4Linux, for example, so it is not made for disk/partition imaging. |
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Setting Up A News-Voting Website With Pligg |
| Post date: January 25, 2007, 20:01 Category: Programming Views: 2003 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: This article shows how to set up your own news-voting website with Pligg. Pligg is a content-management system published under the Affero General Public License, and it is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database for storing its data. With a little work you can create your own community and let users vote news to the front page. |
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Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data |
| Post date: January 23, 2007, 23:01 Category: System Views: 1824 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: This article shows how you can modify the partitioning of your Linux system with GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) without losing data. This includes resizing partitions (enlarging and shrinking), moving partitions on the hard drive, creating and deleting partitions, and even modifying filesystem types. GParted is a free partition editor available as a desktop program and also as a Live-CD. It supports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, reiserfs, reiser4, ufs, xfs, and even ntfs (Windows). |
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Backup and Restore Linux Partitions Using Partimage |
| Post date: January 22, 2007, 18:01 Category: Installing Views: 1457 Comments: 0 |
| Tutorial quote: Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied on removable floppies (ZIP for example), … Partitions can be saved across the network since version 0.6.0.When using Partimage, the partitions must be unmounted. |
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