Fighting With Linux Server Setup

April 22nd, 2007 BSNL DataOne provides software for connecting to Linux. However I found that you can setup much easier and without using their custom software.

February 18th, 2007 The basic idea of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) is to combine multiple small, independent disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance and recoverability exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive (SLED). Redundancy is also provided (unless RAID 0) which allows easy and often automatic recovery from hard disk crash.

February 7th, 2009 Setting up a DNS server (with software like Bind) has two major components, the first being setting up the server itself and adding all the records. I will not delve into it as it has been discussed ad-nauseum on the net.

September 14th, 2009 You may find several instructions to autostart synergyc during login and after login. I had a hard time using them.

October 23rd, 2007 Sometimes windows installers come with msi extension instead of regular exe extension. Such software can be installed with the msiexec command which comes with wine.

May 26th, 2007 rdiff-backup is a popular, free, open source mirroring and incremental backup system for posix based operating systems like linux & Mac OS X. It uses rysnc algorithm through librsync but it doesn't use rsync.

July 22nd, 2007 I am going to describe a simple no-brainer way to share your BSNL Dataone Broadband internet connection over wireless network. The same principles can be used with other broadband connections too.

January 15th, 2007 There are 3 options to run rsync server on windows, explained below with pros and cons and instructions. Using DeltaCopy.

December 15th, 2007 Our local setup consists of a single ntp server which synchronizes time from asia pool of ntp.org ([0-2].asia.pool.ntp.org) and several ntp servers in the intranet which synchronizes from the above server. This setup ensures identical clock on all the machines on the intranet as well as reduces load on ntp.org servers.

September 23rd, 2009 For any System administrator its tough to monitor large Linux networks continuously without a streamlined system. Looking for an efficient network monitoring solution for Linux systems we came across Nagios.

September 18th, 2009 Do you wanna know how long the server has been running? It requires just a simple command to monitor the time for which the Linux system has been running. With a single command you can not only know about the uptime, but also the number of users that have currently logged on and the system load averages for the past 1, 5 and 15 minutes.

January 15th, 2007 I wanted a seamless procedure to update web sites and web applications without compromising security. The development server is under a firewall and so is the production server.

April 29th, 2007 I needed to run Synergy server for my triple monitor setup at startup of Gnome session. crontab isn't going to help here.

May 12th, 2007 Mantis is popular php based defect tracking application which works on top of RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Recently I ported our Windows based Mantis installation to Linux.

April 16th, 2007 FireStarter is for Linux what ZoneAlarm is for Windows, a simple to use but fully functional firewall for small business and homes for free. The simplicity of firewall even surpasses ZoneAlarm, even a novice can set it up properly with very minimum knowledge.