Posted in March 13th, 2022
Let’s say, you have setup a new server which is running either Ubuntu 20.04 or Centos7.9 And while setting up cron, you notice the date time need to be offset correctly to have the actual time locally. How about we just change the server to use local timezone altogether. Here is how to do it. […]
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Posted in September 23rd, 2017
Let’s say you have some server running around the world. I bet most of it doesn’t really need an GUI to be running all the time. The least you may need is only a terminal access to it. Which is sufficient if it is running at runlevel 3. Here is how you can specify the […]
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Posted in June 9th, 2012
It’s been a while, feel like moving too fast.. while all other like stale or slow-pace. I.e the market is not changing that fast enough for the new technology to sustain.. SO, instead of picking up latest OS . (Fedora 17) I search for the redhat 9 ( codename Shrike ) which is still around […]
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Posted in August 14th, 2011
First , need to iterate all the folders that been shared by windows PC. I prefer putting that windows PC ip address into /etc/hosts so that it would simplify thing a litle bit. 192.168.199.211 netpc then on at terminal . smbtree netpc next, got the directory and all. Places-> Connect to server -> select the […]
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Posted in June 13th, 2010
first of all. Setup the HTTP repository with something like the following setup .. mount -o loop /home/namran/iso/CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-DVD.iso /var/www/html/centos service httpd start mount -o loop /home/namran/iso/CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-DVD.iso /var/www/html/centos service httpd start then boot of each machine with a DVD/ boot CD. Get upto to boot menu and type linux askmethodlinux askmethod wait.. till the following […]
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Posted in April 20th, 2010
For Redhat 5.4 or CentOS 5.4 can just add rpmforge repository .. then do the following to the monitoring host. yum install nagios-nrpe nagios-nrpe-plugins -yyum install nagios-nrpe nagios-nrpe-plugins -y which pretty much covered in previous post regarding nagios installation. only need to ammend the file at vi /etc/nagios/objects/commands.cfg vi /etc/nagios/objects/commands.cfg to add the following.. […]
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Posted in January 6th, 2010
Not much.. just bought a printer (Canon MP198) today.. just download the necessary rpm file from canon website here. there are 4 files as below : For printer.. 1. cnijfilter-common-3.00-1.i386.rpm 2. cnijfilter-mp190series-3.00-1.i386.rpm I believe this this two is for scanner.. 3. scangearmp-common-1.20-1.i386.rpm 4. scangearmp-mp190series-1.20-1.i386.rpm after got that rpm files.. just : rpm -ivh cnijfilter-common-3.00-1.i386.rpm rpm […]
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Posted in November 23rd, 2009
After sometime, I think there are time when we had to dig to our backup repository and restore things. And this is when the combination of rsync and ssh become handy.. let’s say want to rsync from remote host to local.. rsync -avz -e "ssh -i fc.keys" [email protected]:/path/to/backup /path/to/localrsync -avz -e "ssh -i fc.keys" [email protected]:/path/to/backup […]
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Posted in November 20th, 2009
Bump on this issue again, someone asked ” how to restore my grub after i did a re-installation of windows on my machine ?” Linux has been there for quite some time, then come windows.. and as usual, windows tend to have it re-format for various reason after some period of time… Yes.. linux got […]
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Posted in June 19th, 2009
Because yahoo is now retiring Yahoo Messenger version 6.0 – 7.5 .. This is according to Yahoo Messenger Blog.. It is no longer able to login to yahoo via any client that is using Yahoo protocol below than 8.0 hehehe.. and so does the pidgin 2.5.5 I don’t know if Pidgin 2.5.6 already supported Y.M […]
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