January 27, 2009. The KDE Community announced the immediate availability of “The Answer”, (a.k.a KDE 4.2.0), readying the Free Desktop for end users. KDE 4.2 builds on the technology introduced with KDE 4.0 in January 2008. After the release of KDE 4.1, which was aimed at casual users, the KDE Community is now confident we [...]
Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Written by Igor Sysoev in 2005, Nginx now hosts between 1% and 4% of all domains worldwide .Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.
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Quite possibly the most distinguishing feature of Debian-based Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu, Mepis, Knoppix, etc) is their package system – APT. Also known as the Advanced Package Tool, APT was first introduced in Debian 2.1 in 1999. APT is not so much a specific program as it is a collection of separate, related [...]
mtop allows you to monitor your MySQL instance in real-time. It shows you uptime of the instance, number of queries executed per second, slow queries, number active threads, etc.
If on Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get -y install mtop
Use following command to watch your MySQL server stats with 1 second refresh interval.
mtop -se 1
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I recently reinstalled Ubuntu Linux (8.04 – Hardy Heron) and wanted to update my version of Gimp to the latest. Unfortunately ‘sudo aptitude install gimp‘ in a terminal simply does not do the trick. Why? Because the latest version is not in the repositories. Hopefully this short post will help some of you avoid a
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I’ve seen a few posts over here regarding problems with an unmaintained Wordpress installation. It definitely can be work to manage software that is not covered within the supported repositories (WP is in the repositories, but its not updated as frequently as upstream). I thought I would cover how I maintain my installations [...]
The recent release of DRBD 8.3 now includes The Third Node
feature as a freely available component. This document will cover the
basics of setting up a third node on a standard Debian Etch
installation. At the end of this tutorial you will have a DRBD device
that can be utilized as a SAN, an iSCSI target, a file [...]
In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Debian Lenny 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 [...]
The aim here is to set up some high available services on Debian
Lenny (at the time of writing still due to be released).
Most of the documentation available for such a setup I found on the net
are based on Xen but I prefer to use Vserver for the “virtualisation”
because of its configurability, shared memory and cpu [...]
This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an Ubuntu 8.10 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to
directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be
downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV [...]
The following script is using blogama.org IP geolocation API to
automatically generate Apache .htaccess file to deny or allow specific
countries. You can put this script under crontab and the .htaccess
rules will be automatically updated. Also, it can update multiple
.htaccess files.
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This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Lenny (Debian 5.0)
server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install
ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you
to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web
server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd,
SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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In this howto I will explain how you can set up a groupware server using the Debian Linux operating system, Group-Office for managing the mailboxes and groupware functions like e-mail, shared calendars, file sharing etc., Postfix with virtual accounts in MySQL, Dovecot IMAP, SpamAssassin spam filter, and a vacation perl script that will handle out-of-office [...]
This guide presents an introduction to Firewall
Builder. Firewall Builder (also known
as fwbuilder) is a GUI firewall configuration and
management tool that supports iptables (netfilter), ipfilter,
pf, ipfw, Cisco PIX (FWSM, ASA) and Cisco [...]
Simple bash script to monitor a webserver on different ports (here
smtp, dns, http & https but it can be customized); I’m sure there
are over 100 available programs doing this but I wanted something with
small memory usage. Also, I only wanted to be notified once,
notifications are received by SMS on my cell. With the software I [...]