Category: Administrations

Install & configuration of Poppasswd server on CentOS 5.2

Rumi, December 7, 2008December 7, 2008

1. Download Poppassd Daemon for Centos 5 Distro from here- http://rpm.razorsedge.org/centos-5/RE/poppassd-1.8.5-3.el5.re.i386.rpm 2. Install using “rpm -U poppassd-1.8.5-3.el5.re.i386.rpm“

Installing WINE on Centos

Rumi, December 6, 2008

Wine is not installed by default using “Yum install win” Solution: You have to enable EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repo and install the packages:

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.

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….

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

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).

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…

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

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.

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!!