Category: Configurations (Linux)

It was a really time consuming to make a workable daemon of proftp server. Surprisingly, this daemon is not a easily setup by other linux disto like FC or CentOS or RHL.  Anyway, the purpose on installing this is to make it work with Webmin+Virtualmin package. So, this installation will…

In order to protect a site or a directory using Apache htaccess and htpasswd files follow the steps- 1. Creating .htaccess file and putting the following code- AuthUserFile /your/abosolute/path/to/this/file/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName “Protected files” AuthType Basic <Limit GET> require valid-user </Limit> 2. Create a .htpasswd in the same directory as…

I want to use Proftpd instead of vsftpd which is SUSE’s default FTP server because the control panel software I am going to install on this server (ISPConfig) requires Proftpd on OpenSUSE 11 (on other distributions this is different). Since there are no OpenSUSE packages for Proftpd I have to…

Scope: Nagios is an excellent tool that can be used to monitor your systems and devices. For more detailed information check out the main Nagios site : Nagios.org The scope of this howto is to give specific installation tips for Nagios running on openSUSE 11.x (should also work on openSUSE…

Installation of the sarg log analyzer: 1) Download the packeg to “/usr/local/src” directory cd /usr/local/src wget -nd http://downloads.safesquid.net/free/general/precompiled/sarg-2.2.3.1.tar.gz

For FC or Centos Distro use yum install php-devel

This is the easy way to install ffmpeg on CentOS or RHEL/Redhat Enterprise Linux the easy way.\ vi /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo Insert the following: [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 enabled=1

  There are two situations in which you might want to add a new network interface – if your system has just had a network card installed, or if you are adding an additional virtual IP address to an existing interface. In the latter case, the new virtual interface is…

Somebody lately, asked a silly simple thing- how can he copy files from his computer to usb and he’s using linux? Actually any novice can ask this simple thing- as GUI interface is already became quite mature than earlier and ppl naturally forgetting command consoles. Anyways, here goes it like…