Top 5 Best Linux Firewalls Rumi, September 25, 2010 iptables If you are new to any of the top 5 firewalls mentioned here, please read the rest of the article to understand more about them. 1. Iptables iptables is a user space application program that does packet filtering, network address translation (NAT), and port address translation (PAT). iptables is… Continue Reading
Mail relaying with Virtualmin Rumi, August 30, 2010 In a typical Virtualmin configuration, email for domains that you host will be delivered to mailboxes on the system for reading by users using Usermin or an IMAP client like Outlook or Thunderbird. However, in come cases you may want mail ultimately delivered to another server, such as an Exchange box… Continue Reading
How do I Compress a Whole Linux or UNIX Directory? Rumi, June 10, 2010 It is very easy to compress a Whole Linux/UNIX directory. It is useful to backup files, email all files, or even to send software you have created to friends. Technically, it is called as a compressed archive. GNU tar command is best for this work. It can be use on… Continue Reading
Windows 7 theme for Ubuntu 9.10 , March 29, 2010 An interesting article, as it looks it transforms the entire OS theme into Windows 7 like…. 🙂 http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/index.php?title=W7_Theme Continue Reading
How to setup MRTG on Centos (RHEL) 4.x and 5.x? Rumi, February 9, 2010July 30, 2011 MRTG stands for "Multi Router Traffic Grapher", and it is a tool to monitor the traffic load on the network interfaces. It generates HTML pages containing PNG images which depicts visual representation of inbound and outbound traffic. MRTG is free software designed by Tobi Oetiker and is licensed under the… Continue Reading
How did I solve .mkv and .avi player in my Suse Rumi, February 7, 2010 Download the file and everything will be sorted out- Trust me! codecs-gnome Continue Reading
Howto add fonts on openSuSE 10.2 – how to install new fonts in SuSE 10.2 Rumi, January 24, 2010 On a SuSE 10.2 system – fonts are in: /usr/share/fonts/ Copy your new fonts into one of the already existing sub-folders depending on type of fonts to be added, then run in consol: /usr/sbin/fonts-config To finalize the activation of your newly installed fonts you need to restart your X-server Ctrl… Continue Reading
How to Tar / Untar From the Command Line Rumi, December 10, 2009 A simple guide for those who are as helpless on the Linux command line. When managing websites, you’ll often need to compact, move and extract a large number of files, here’s how to do it on your Linux box. Initial Steps First SSH into your web server and move to… Continue Reading
Howto Install PHP GD (PHP Graphics) support in Ubuntu / Debian Rumi, October 5, 2009 PHP is not limited to creating just HTML output. It can also be used to create and manipulate image files in a variety of different image formats, including GIF, PNG, JPEG, WBMP, and XPM. Even more convenient, PHP can output image streams directly to a browser. You need to install… Continue Reading
Squid proxy server with user authentication Rumi, June 28, 2009 If you are planning to set up proxy authentication program, using squid+webmin it’s quite simple- Click “Authentication Program” icon on webmin Enter the following infos in the right boxes- Basic authentication program- /usr/lib/squid/pam_auth Number of authentication programs- 5 Authentication cache time- 5 Hrs Back to squid index Click “Access Control”… Continue Reading