Fail to start proftpd in CentOS Rumi, November 12, 2008 My ProFTPD was not starting at all even after removing and re-installing! Moved around few places. So, I investigated the followings- Checked whether some other FTP server was running without my conscent! The result came negative. Continue Reading
Installing Squish Rumi, November 9, 2008November 9, 2008 Well, install squint is quite simple! But installing squish is quite tricky- the document provided is not sufficient to cover few steps. I’ll try to summerize it (I’ve tested it on FC-5 distro)- Step -1 Make backup of your squid.conf for in case things go wrong. Install perl GD module…. Continue Reading
Installing GD.pm on Fedora-5 distro Rumi, November 9, 2008 Using “yum install GD” or “yum install perl-GD” or any other didn’t help me installing GD perl module. However, an exceptional tricky yum did give me a success. So, let me put it here before I forget to do it in the future! yum -y install perl-GD Continue Reading
Squint and Squish 2 cute admin tool for Linux :) Rumi, November 9, 2008November 9, 2008 Well, Leading Edge Business Solution from South Africa- do created 2 excellent and to my view most essential tools for network administration to sniff users and warn them! Actually they run on linux environment with Squid Proxy server running on the network to serve clients (likely network clients). Continue Reading
Reset Forgotten MySQL Root Password Rumi, September 9, 2008September 9, 2008 Have you ever forgotten the root password on one of your MySQL servers? No? Well maybe I’m not as perfect as you. This is a quick h00tow (how to) reset your MySQL root password. It does require root access on your server. If you have forgotten that password wait for… Continue Reading
Set up the firewall to listen MySQL on port 3306 Rumi, September 6, 2008 Just a small tweaking comnand that allows MySQL server on a linux server to open & listen to port 3306 for remote connectivity- [root@linux root]# iptables -I INPUT -p tcp –dport 3306 -j ACCEPT Continue Reading
Reinstall Apache 2.X in CENT OS 5 Rumi, August 28, 2008 Download the rpm and reinstall like so: rpm -ivh –replacepkgs httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.centos.3.i386.rpm For i386, you can grab the latest version here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/ Backup your httpd.conf file first. User created files shouldn’t be affected, but it’s always wise to have a backup of those too. Continue Reading
Sending and Receiving mail using Command line through telnet Rumi, July 10, 2008 Ok first off im no good at writing tutorials so feel free to flame me (hey that rymes). Anyway in this tutorial i will basically show you how to send and receive email via the command-line terminal emulation program called Telnet. Now where shall i start, hmm.. Sending Email!! Continue Reading
Figthing with FTP Access (Proftpd) Rumi, May 18, 2008 I came this morning to my office desk, tried to put something into my newly set up blog. God knows, why teh hell did i try to make a small change in my Blog URI settings! Anyway, I tried to create some different URI path with Blog- by Date and… Continue Reading