Posted on September 2, 2010, 4:41 pm, by Dhaval Thakar.
After installing Fedora 13, you might find your WLAN is not detected. Even with the latest Kernel you may not be able to use WIFI. This is where sites like http://wireless.kernel.org/ are most useful. Even today Laptop manufacturer does not consider providing drivers for Linux OS. While installing Fedora 13 on following laptops wifi was [...]
Posted on August 18, 2010, 10:25 am, by Dhaval Thakar.
This is more of Resize LVM I have tested this on CentOS 5.5. Since this is root partition modification, I’ll recommend to keep config backup before proceeding. create new partition (partition id should be 8e Linux LVM) ADD PHYSICAL VOLUME pvcreate /dev/new_partition Verify new physical volume pvdisplay Or pvscan Extend existing VOLUME GROUP vgextend VolGroup00 [...]
Posted on July 14, 2010, 4:10 pm, by Dhaval Thakar.
This article will help configuring vsftpd using virtual users. Meaning there is no need to create system users, users can be maintanted using htpasswd. What is the benifit of using virtual users? this can be useful if you wish to auth same users via apache, where he / she can get access to same ftp [...]
Posted on July 9, 2010, 12:59 pm, by Dhaval Thakar.
RRDTOOL is required by many network utilities, e.g cacti, nagios & many others to plot graphs. By default rrdtool is not included in CentOS. You may need to install it for monitoring purpose. You can either use source to compile or install using rpm. To install using rpm all you need is following two commands. [...]
Posted on June 26, 2010, 12:27 pm, by Dhaval Thakar.
Mozilla provides Linux packages for Firefox / Thunderbird, but many of users prefer using packages available with distro. As a result you need to wait until your favorite disto release latest rpm / deb or find alternative repo to get latest packages. Rather hunting you may start using TAR packages available at mozilla. You can [...]