What would the best Linux operating system for hosting a Web/SVN/etc. server? One thing that it needs to have is no windowing system installed by default.
Thanks in advance!
on windows there are several key maps applications that replaces Caps lock with ESC on a single 'press and relase' and with a Control signal if hold and another key is pressed.
Is there any way to do something similar on linux? Ideally on the whole system, but if it is only for X window it is fine too.
i'm currently writting scripts with the xautomation package tools. but i guess there is already a better way to do that via configurations.
What are the advantages / disadvantages of using cooperative linux like portable ubuntu for example compared to a qemu or any other virtual machine installation. Is one option notably faster than the other plus and other things that should be taken into consideration.
I have a linux (CentOS 5.2) server with the name myserver.mycompnay.com, which is correctly returned when I run 'hostname'. When I run 'hostname -s' however it returns "localhost" which is causing some backup scripts to put stuff in a "localhost" directory instead of a "myserver" directory.
All of our other CentOS boxes correctly return the first part of their hostname when 'hostname -s', where do I go on this server to make it behave the same? Other than having "HOSTNAME=myserver.mycompnay.com" in /etc/sysconfig/network what should I be looking at?
We need to setup an intrusion detection system (IDS) on our linux proxy server. Please suggest intrusion detection systems ? anything else than Snort ?
I am interested in a utility or process for monitoring disk IO per file on CentOS.
On Win2008, the resmon utility allows this type of drilldown, but none of the Linux utilities I have found do this (iostat, iotop, dstat, nmon).
My interest in monitoring IO bottlenecks on database servers. With MSSQL, I have found it an informative diagnostic to know which files / filespaces are getting hit the hardest.
Does anyone know of a program/script that runs on Linux that can give us a nice GUI for browsing and managing shared system folders similar in the way that windows explorer would work?
So would allow, upload, download, file modification etc. It's a way to still have access to all our files stored on the system from any location with internet access.
Thanks in advance
Hi,
I need to set up a linux network: central authentication server and laptops (maybe desktops). Laptops must cache credentials. What is the current best way to do that? Can kerberos be coerced into doing that? Should I install Samba WAD equivalent and use likewise?
Hi,
is there a way to provide post-mount and pre-umount scripts in Linux ?
I am trying to do some scripts on storage media when mounted and before umounting (for synching).
Any help appreciated.
Is there any way to coax Gmail into pushing new-mail notifications into my Linux machine, without using a full-on graphical mail client like Thunderbird?
edit: Thanks for all the responses, but (unless I'm mistaken) these applications all poll, none of them receive notifications pushed from GMail.
Also, I'd prefer a console-based program, as this will be running on a headless server.
Every time my computer (Gentoo linux) reboots the clock is several hours off:
/etc/localtime is set for the correct timezone
/etc/conf.d/clock lists the correct timezone
running sntp -r 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org fixes the problem... until reboot
setting the time manually using date also fixes the problem... until reboot
The System clock is set to UTC
This is starting to drive me nuts :(
I don't have a subscription for RHEL anymore and I want to update my server. Can anyone tell me How to Update Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 using CentOS Repos ?
Hi, What is the best way to install software in a linux machine if you dont have root permissions. I know that we can use few variables like PKG_CONFIG_PATH and switches like --prefix with configure to get a software installed in a local directory, but sometimes when there are recursive dependencies it is becoming tough for me to install all the packages manually. Is there a better automated way?
Update: What i meant by recursive dependencies is: to install package A, i should install package B, which in turn requires package C to be installed
I'm looking for some software for Linux which will allow me to write and take my own quizzes. I want to have a way to test people about their technical knowledge. I'm looking for free software... any recommendations?
I know that this laptop (Asus UL30A) does support playing HD material with the help of the GPU on windows. The question is how can I do this under linux? The CPU load as is implies that this is not activated. I assume that it's limited to a handful of codecs. But which player supports this, if its even supported at all?
How can I change the first byte of multiple files in Linux? Willing to use perl/awk/sed/whatever. Must work correctly on binary files (i.e. not change any other bytes).
hi,
i will get an ibm x3500 in the next days and wondered which linux i should use. i tend to use ubuntu 10.04 server, haven't heard anything bad about it and i'm a big debian fan.
there will be a raid 5 powered by the ibm hardware raid controller (don't know which one). is it possible to monitor and manage it wit hthe ubuntu 10.04 server distro? or should i go another way and choose something like redhat (haven't used it though...)?
thanks in advance
regards
How do I block a user from accessing the internet under Linux?
I'm trying the following:
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 80,443 -m owner --uid-owner $USERNAME -j DROP
Is that the right syntax or command?
How can I passively monitor the packet loss on TCP connections to/from my machine?
Basically, I'd like a tool that sits in the background and watches TCP ack/nak/re-transmits to generate a report on which peer IP addresses "seem" to be experiencing heavy loss.
Most questions like this that I find of SF suggest using tools like iperf. But, I need to monitor connections to/from a real application on my machine.
Is this data just sitting there in the Linux TCP stack?
I am primarily a programmer developing on windows based OS using c# as my primary language. I am evaluating Ubuntu Linux as an alternate platform and would like to know the best stack for doing web development on this.
I had gone through the following thread Moving development from Windows to Linux but it doesn't answer my questions fully.
Some of the points I am interested are outlined below
PHP/Ruby/Python (What would you recommend?)
Is Mono mature enough for any large scale development? Has anyone any real experience using Mono.
IDE (including debugging support, intellisense, source control integration,Unit testing)
Unit testing framework based on the language recommended
Web framework if any.
Load Testing tools
Web server (I know there are many webservers, but would like to know which one is primarily used by most people)
Your inputs is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I am trying to run java command in linux server it was running well but today when I tried to run java I got some error-
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
my memory space is -
root@vps [~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8192 226 7965 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 226 7965
Swap: 0 0 0
How can I solve this problem.
I want to use highly secure encryption for zipped files via Linux/Ubuntu using a command line terminal, what is the best command line tool to get this job done?
zip -e -P PASSWORD file1 file2 file3 file4
Or
7za a file.7z *.txt -pSECRET
What encryption is used and how secure is it?