All About Debian Tutorials

Remotely Manage Machines Using VNC

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:14:42 -0800

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing `desktop’ environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. Full Story

Recover Data From a dead hard drive using ddrescue

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:14:42 -0800

Like dd, dd_rescue does copy data from one file or block device to another.dd_rescue is a tool to help you to save data from crashed partition. It tries to read and if it fails, it will go on with the next sectors where tools like dd will fail. If the copying process is interrupted by the user it is possible to continue at any position later. It can copy backwards.

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Howto Install .rpm Files in Debian

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:21:38 -0800

Some time you might find some applications are having only .rpm files but you want a .deb package for your debian,Ubuntu and other debian derived ditributions.If you can’t find .deb debian package in any of the debian,ubuntu repositories or elsewhere, you can use the alien package converter to install the .rpm file.

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RTG (Bandwidth and 95th Percentile Monitoring ) Installation and Configuration

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:21:36 -0800

RTG Stands for Real Traffic Grabber.RTG is a flexible, scalable, high-performance SNMP statistics monitoring system. It is designed for enterprises and service providers who need to collect time-series SNMP data from a large number of targets quickly. All collected data is inserted into a relational database that provides a common interface for applications to generate complex queries and reports. RTG includes utilities that generate configuration and target files, traffic reports, 95th percentile reports and graphical data plots. These utilities may be used to produce a web-based interface to the data.

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Debian etch graphical mode installation with screenshots

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 06:36:59 -0700

Debian etch installation using graphical interface this is really nice installation walkthrough with each step screenshots.This is new feature in debian upcoming release version called etch.This article contains nearly 50 images of this installation process.

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Enable custom error messages on the Apache web server

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 06:36:59 -0700

This document describes how to configure the Apache web server so that it will redirect common server errors - like 404 Not Found or 500 Internal Server Error - to a Perl CGI script for processing.

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Debian Network Utilities and tools With Examples

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:22:15 -0700

This is the list of debian network utilities and tools for administrators and users to check the network related traffic, monitor network.This includes installation of each package with man pages.This full list devided in to two parts which is Part1 Networking tools and Part2 Networking Tools network tools

Running Internet Explorer in Debian Linux

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:22:14 -0700

No clicks needed. No boring setup processes. No Wine complications. Just one easy script and you’ll get three IE versions to test your Sites. And it’s free and open source.This may be very helpful for software developers and web developers to test their applications.

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Enable custom error messages on the Apache web server

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:32:43 -0700

This document describes how to configure the Apache web server so that it will redirect common server errors - like 404 Not Found or 500 Internal Server Error - to a Perl CGI script for processing.

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Debian etch graphical mode installation with screenshots

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:32:42 -0700

Debian etch beta3 installation using graphical interface this is really nice installation walkthrough with each step screenshots.This is new feature in debian upcoming release version called etch.This article contains nearly 50 images of this installation process.

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Opensource Bandwidth,Network and Servers Monitoring tools with Tutorials

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:13:44 -0700

This is very good tutorials for bandwidth monitoring,network monitoring and servers monitoring tools with clear step by step installation guides this includes Nagios,MRTG,RTG,Netmrg,Darkstat,monit,munin,mon,oreon,Saidar ,Cacti,Bigsister,ibmonitor,zabbix.This resouce is Very useful for Users and Administrators to monitor their networks,bandwidth and servers.

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ZABBIX monitoring System installation with screenshots

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:13:44 -0700

ZABBIX is a 24×7 monitoring solution without high cost. ZABBIX is software that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers. ZABBIX uses a flexible notification mechanism that allows users to configure e-mail based alerts for virtually any event. This allows a fast reaction to server problems. ZABBIX offers excellent reporting and data visualisation features based on the stored data. This makes ZABBIX ideal for capacity planning.

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Easy SNMP Server and Client Configuration

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:31:11 -0700

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely used protocol for monitoring the health and welfare of network equipment (eg. routers), computer equipment and even devices like UPSs. Net-SNMP is a suite of applications used to implement SNMP v1, SNMP v2c and SNMP v3 using both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Nagios2.5 and Oreon 1.3 (Nagios web front end)installation with screenshots

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:31:11 -0700

Oreon© is an Open Source monitoring solution based on Nagios. It offers to this monitoring standard a new front end and brings it a panel of new functionalities.

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Secure Debian System Using FireHOL Firewall

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:40:40 -0800

FireHOL is a stateful iptables packet filtering firewall configurator. It is abstracted, extensible, easy and powerful. It can handle any kind of firewall, but most importantly, it gives you the means to configure it, the same way you think of it.

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How to shutdown Debian linux machine

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:40:40 -0800

There are several ways to shut down DebianLinux machine cleanly, with the most simple probably being from the GUI environment you are using.For the GNOME desktop enviornment there is the option to shutdown the machine which is immediately available when you click "Logout". Choosing this should log you out of the desktop and also shut the machine down

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Databases (Mysql,Postgresql,Firebird) Backup Tutorials and Scripts

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:47:09 -0800

If you're storing anything in databases that you do not want to lose, chances are you should be doing weekly or even daily backups. Depending on what you are using your databases for, be it to store forum messages, employee information, or your spending information, you are going to need to choose a backup that meets your needs.

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Hosting Multiple Websites or Namebased,IPbased Virtual hosts in Lighttpd

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:47:09 -0800

Hosting Multiple Websites or Namebased,IPbased Virtual hosts in Lighttpd

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Apache,Tomcat With mod_jk Installation and Configuration

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:50:08 -0800

Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.

Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.

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Change the MTU of network interface in Debian

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:37:14 -0800

Maximum Transmission Unit, the largest physical packet size, measured in bytes, that a network can transmit. Any messages larger than the MTU are divided into smaller packets before being sent.

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Lighttpd Webserver Installation in Debian

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:37:13 -0800

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility--all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression,URL-Rewriting and many more) LightTPD is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it's Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license.

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