Boot CentOS 5/6 as Single User Mode Rumi, August 3, 2014 Step 1 – Boot CentOS into Single User Mode – Hit Any Key Boot CentOS in Single User Mode – Press Any Key to Edit Boot Options Power up the machine and when you see this screen, hit the space bar or any other key before the timeout. Step 2… Continue Reading
CentOS mount NFS Disk Rumi, July 24, 2014 First Enable EPEL Repo under CentOS or RHEL Servers You need to type the following command as per your distro version / release. RHEL 5.x / CentOS 5.x Users Type the following command as root user to install repo: # rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm RHEL 6.x / CentOS 6.x Users Type… Continue Reading
Book Review: Learning Nagios 4 by Wojciech Kocjan Rumi, July 7, 2014July 7, 2014 Learning Nagios 4: Learn how to setup Nagios 4 in order to monitor your systems efficiently, Author- Wojciech Kocjan. Nagios- it is the most effective monitoring tool that actually helps to identify and resolve critical IT infra before they affect critical service operations. Above all, it is an open… Continue Reading
Reinstall OpenSSH Server Rumi, June 21, 2014 First if you have any pre-installed SSH server that has gone bad, remove it- on Redhat Architechture Type the following commands as the root user: # chkconfig sshd off # service sshd stop # yum erase openssh-server You need to edit and update firewall rules that allows inbound connections to… Continue Reading
Increase file upload size limit in PHP-Nginx Rumi, June 9, 2014 To change max file upload size to 100MB Edit… vim /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini Set… upload_max_filesize = 100M post_max_size = 100M Continue Reading
SSH Public key based authentication Rumi, June 9, 2014September 3, 2017 Method-1: Create the cryptographic Key on FreeBSD / Linux / UNIX workstation, enter: ssh-keygen -t rsa Assign the pass phrase (press [enter] key twice if you don’t want a passphrase). It will create 2 files in ~/.ssh directory as follows: ~/.ssh/id_rsa : identification (private) key ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub : public key Use… Continue Reading
Install Sun Java 7.x on Debian Squeeze Rumi, June 8, 2014 It might look weird to install Sun Java from a Ubuntu Repo- however it works at least it worked for my installation- $ su root # echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list # echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list # apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys EEA14886 # apt-get… Continue Reading
Install VNCServer on Centos 5 Rumi, June 6, 2014 Install VNC Server to operate CentOS with GUI remotely from Windows client. VNC is already installed if you already build Desktop Environment. If it's not installed, Install by a command 'yum -y install vnc-server'. [root@ns ~]# yum -y install vnc-server [root@ns ~]# vi /etc/sysconfig/vncservers # line 20: make valid… Continue Reading
Installing LAMP On Debian Rumi, June 6, 2014June 6, 2014 First we install MySQL 5 like this: apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client You will be asked to provide a password for the MySQL root user – this password is valid for the user root@localhost as well as root@server1.example.com, so we don't have to specify a MySQL root password manually later on:… Continue Reading
Importing Big mysqldump with Progress Bar PV Rumi, June 6, 2014 I am using CentOS 6.4 box, so it requires me to install EPEL repo at the first place: $ rpm -Uhv http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm Install pv using yum: $ yum install -y pv Installation done. Let the importing begin! $ pv /home/user/my_big_dump.sql | mysql -uroot -p For Ubuntu/Debian distribution intall PV… Continue Reading