Linux Rescue Mode, recovering from boot Rumi, July 2, 2011 When things go wrong, there are ways to fix problems. However, these methods require that you understand the system well. This chapter will describe the ways that you can boot into rescue mode and single user mode, where you can use your own knowledge to repair the system. What is… Continue Reading
Linux ISO and DR Solution- Mondo Rescue Rumi, July 1, 2011July 1, 2011 Mondo Rescue is a GPL disaster recovery solution. It supports Linux (i386, x86_64, ia64) and FreeBSD (i386). It's packaged for multiple distributions (RedHat, RHEL, SuSE, SLES, Mandriva, Debian, Gentoo). It supports tapes, disks, network and CD/DVD as backup media, multiple filesystems, LVM, software and hardware Raid. You need it to be… Continue Reading
Virtual Hosting with Tomcat Rumi, May 30, 2011 This is a guide on setting up Tomcat to do virtual hosting and make it behave like a simple webserver with jsp and servlet support, for many different sites all hosted on the same IP address. The aim is to have a single directory for each virtual host, which can… Continue Reading
Accessing Apache on port 81 Rumi, May 30, 2011 1) httpd.config to listen to "Listen *:81" and 2) SELinux settings to allow access to port 81 through "semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 81" Continue Reading
Zip and Unzip Command in Linux Rumi, May 28, 2011 Zipping a Directory zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, Linux, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari and Macintosh, Amiga and Acorn RISC OS etc. This utility is installed by default on most Linux computers. he program is useful for packaging a set of files for… Continue Reading
Installing GCC, C++ and GD in Linux Rumi, May 28, 2011May 31, 2011 By Using YUM these compiler and libraries can be setup- GCC compiler C/C++ development libraries GD development libraries For GCC, C/C++- yum install gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake For GD- yum install gd gd-devel php-gd On Debian/Linux to install GCC use- # apt-get update && apt-get upgrade # apt-get install build-essential… Continue Reading
Setup Tomcat with Apache2 and Java on Ubuntu 10.04 Server Rumi, May 28, 2011May 28, 2011 Apache Tomcat (or Jakarta Tomcat or simply Tomcat) is an open source servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, and provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment for Java code to run. … Continue Reading
Rumi, May 8, 2011May 8, 2011 Installing VirtualBox From Precompiled Binaries First, we install the packages gdeb, gedbi, and gdebi-core. Open the Synaptic Package Manager (System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager): You can use the search function to find the three packages. Select them for installation and click on Apply. Close Synaptic after the packages… Continue Reading
Linux Gnome Force Quit alternate to crl+alt+del Rumi, May 8, 2011 The Force Quit button allows you to click on a window to force an application to quit. This button is useful if you want to terminate an application that does not respond to your commands, if the application has frozen or crashed, for example. To add a Force Quit button… Continue Reading
Mount Windows partitions in to Linux Rumi, May 6, 2011 Procedure to mount remote windows partition (NAS share) 1) Make sure you have following information: ==> Windows username and password to access share name ==> Sharename (such as //server/share) or IP address ==> root level access on Linux 2) Login to Linux as a root user (or use su command)… Continue Reading