Linux Administration

How To Use Linux Grep Command To Find Strings

| May 6, 2012 | 0 Comments
How To Use Linux Grep Command To Find Strings

Linux and UNIX-like systems, all system configuration information is stored and manipulated in plain text form. The grep tool allows to search of text, such as a file or output of the command, for a term or pattern matching regular expressions. Grep is used to search text for patterns specified by the user. It is [...]

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Learn Linux NFS Mount Options in Detail

| April 24, 2012 | 0 Comments
Learn Linux NFS Mount Options in Detail

About NFS (Network File System) And Options to Mount NFS is a client and server architecture based protocol, developed by Sun Microsystems. The main purpose of this protocol is sharing file/file system over network. In general, files/file system sharing between two UNIX machines. User on client computer access remote file system over a network in [...]

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Apache (httpd.conf) Directives A Quick Look

| November 22, 2011
Apache (httpd.conf) Directives A Quick Look

ServerType standalone The option ServerType specifies how Apache should run on the system. You can run it from the super-server inetd, or as standalone daemon. It’s highly recommended to run Apache in standalone type for better performance and speed. ServerRoot “/etc/httpd” The option ServerRoot specifies the directory in which the configuration files of the Apache [...]

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Easy MRTG Installation on CentOS 5

| November 17, 2011
Easy MRTG Installation on CentOS 5

Below steps shows how to install MRTG on CentOS 5. First install SNMP with yum or with rpms Essential rpms need are given below net-snmp-5.3.1-14.el5.i386.rpm net-snmp-devel-5.3.1-14.el5.i386.rpm net-snmp-libs-5.3.1-14.el5.i386.rpm net-snmp-perl-5.3.1-14.el5.i386.rpm net-snmp-utils-5.3.1-14.el5.i386.rpm perl-IO-Socket-INET6-2.51-2.fc6.noarch.rpm perl-Socket6-0.19-3.fc6.i386.rpm ============================================================= 1. Introduction MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) is an application that allows us to observe the traffic of a network. It generates html [...]

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How To Configure Iscsi Storage on Redhat Linux

How To Configure Iscsi Storage on Redhat Linux

| April 11, 2012 | 0 Comments

Here I am trying to explain Equallogic Lun configuration on Redhat Linux 5 version. Linux Iscsi Storage Lun Mapping is much simpler on Equallogic Storage Array. Free Open Isci tool is used as the iscsi initiator. Once installed you can use iscsiadm command to configure the Lun. Dell recommends to configure iscsi on redhat 5 [...]

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How To Add New Modules In Apache

How To Add New Modules In Apache

| January 31, 2012

A module provides variety of features for apache such as security, perl and php support etc. To configure apache for additional modules you need to add LoadModule directive in httpd.conf or modules.conf file. For example you can add session management and tracking through consistent identifiers using mod_session. You need to add following entry to Apache [...]

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Speed Webpages Using Mod_Deflate Module On Apache

Speed Webpages Using Mod_Deflate Module On Apache

| December 14, 2011

Mod_deflate module is used with Apache to increase the speed of download. This module can be used with Apache and it will compress the data before sending to the client. It now been installed by default with most flavours. So you can check before you try to install it. Note: Processing takes additional CPU and [...]

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