A “service” is a program that starts automatically when you start your computer, and runs in the background. For example, the “network” service sets up your connection to the Internet and keeps it running correctly.
There are two ways to manage services in Fedora, one using the graphical tools, and one using
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dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer’s DMI (some say SMBIOS)
table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a
description of the system’s hardware components, as well as other
useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision.
Thanks to this table, you can retrieve this information without having
to probe for the actual hardware.
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SystemImager
lets you create images of your Linux installations. To do so, you need
an image server (should have enough disk space to store your images)
and a so-called golden client (i.e., the system of which you want to
make an image). This means that you have to install some software on
your image server and on your golden client [...]
The last time I needed to install Ubuntu on a system without a CD drive, my Eee PC, I created a bootable USB drive to run the graphical installer. The UNetbootin tool I used makes creating the USB system simple, but in Ubuntu 8.10 there’s an even easier way.
You’ll need:
* The [...]
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install and configure Mantis - Defect
Tracker on your Fedora operating system. Mantis is an open source free defect tracking utility
that is really easy to configure and use. Its installation is also very easy if you follow the
steps that I have mentioned [...]
This document describes how to install and configure the Link Layer
Topology Discovery (LLTD) Protocol - Responder Source Code from
Microsoft. The lld2d daemon allows linux systems to display in Vista’s
Network Map. This How-To should be easily adaptable to other distros.
Read more at HowtoForge
In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare an Ubuntu 8.10 server
for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers
(VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver
project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial
virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual
servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch [...]
Today we are going to see how you can make Ubuntu much more user friendly and add eye candy. We are going to give Ubuntu a Mac OSX like dock and configure it to add applets and launchers to launch applications of your choice. I have done this in Ubuntu 8.10 but I am sure [...]
When I am writing post for Make Tech Easier, I love to take plenty of screenshots as I feel they can make the explanation clearer and easier. Over the year, I have also discovered several ways to take screenshot on my Ubuntu machine. If you are looking for one, I have compiled a list of [...]
Many readers will have heard about Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok’s work to boot an ASUS Eee 901 in 5 seconds. Inspired by this work, and because I have the same laptop, I decided to try to reproduce their results. So far I have not come very close to their 5 seconds, but [...]
In my attempts to performance tune the blog I’ve been looking at alternate web servers, primarily lighttpd. One of the initial issues that I had with an attempted migration was that of enabling php. With Apache php had been simple, but lighttpd needed a bit more.
To install a php fastcgi enabled web server [...]
In this tutorial we will see how to enable remote desktop access in ubuntu desktop and accessing remotely.vino is VNC server for GNOME.VNC is a protocol that allows remote display of a user’s desktop. This package provides a VNC server that integrates with GNOME, allowing you to export your running desktop to another computer for [...]
Thursday, November 6, 2008 04:53:41 PM
First you may wish to read part 1 and part 2.
Create NX Server keys:
# /usr/NX/scripts/setup/nxserver -keygen
The critical output from your viewpoint is:
NX> 704 Keys updated. NX clients should now use key:
NX> 704 /usr/NX/share/keys/default.id_dsa.key
NX> 704 to get connected to this NX server.
Now you should copy the encryption key to a more [...]
This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses
virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This
is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a
single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and
upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will [...]
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.3) on a CentOS 5.2 system (i386). Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called “virtual machines” or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0).
Using Xen you can separate your applications into different virtual
machines that are [...]