ViewVC is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version control repositories. It generates templatized HTML to present navigable directory, revision, and change log listings. It can display specific versions of files as well as diffs between those versions. Basically, ViewVC provides the bulk of the report-like functionality you expect out of your version control [...]
Full Story »Install Fedora from Live CD – CLI
It is not necessary to use GUI installer while installing Fedora from Live CD / USB. You can install from CLI too. Many admins would prefer to start installation from CLI rather booting CD / USB and use GUI based installer. What is the advantage? You’ll save time while installing from CD, booting to GUI [...]
Full Story »Fedora – Install WLAN drivers.
After installing Fedora, 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 not [...]
Full Story »LVM Resize root partition -Centos
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 [...]
Full Story »Extract file from rpm
Ever came across situation wherein you need to extract file from rpm? This post may help you to extract single file from rpm. No need to install rpm again to retrieve single file. e.g by mistake I deleted /bin/ls now I can not work without ls as I have habit to run ls after I [...]
Full Story »Linux Bandwidth Shaper
This script is what I was looking for quite a some time. Manyatimes I came across need to limit bandwidth on Linux box. This script is one of the best & easy to use if you wish to control upload / download speed for ethernet. This may be useful for developers to test their applications [...]
Full Story »A frontend to reverse VNC connections – Gitso
Gitso is a frontend to reverse VNC connections. It is meant to be a simple two-step process that connects one person to another’s screen. First, the support person offers to give support. Second, the person who needs help connects and has their screen remotely visible. Because Gitso is cross-platform (Linux, OS X and Windows) and [...]
Full Story »Virtual Users on VSFTPD- CentOS
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 [...]
Full Story »Install RRDTOOL using yum on CentOS.
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. [...]
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