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  • The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.0 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]

    centos Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 54

    The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.0 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3] This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.0 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

  • Apache2/mod_ruby (CentOS/Fedora): mod_ruby: ruby:0:in `require': no such file to load -- apache/ruby-run (LoadError)

    apache Author: Falko TimmeTags: Comments: 0

    Error: Apache2/mod_ruby (CentOS/Fedora): mod_ruby: ruby:0:in `require': no such file to load -- apache/ruby-run (LoadError) You get the following error messages in Apache's error log: [Thu May 26 02:05:05 2011] [error] mod_ruby: ruby:0:in `require': no such file to load -- apache/ruby-run (LoadError) [Thu May 26 02:05:05 2011] [error] mod_ruby: failed to require apache/ruby-run [Thu May 26 02:05:05 2011] [error] mod_ruby: error in ruby

  • Debian Lenny public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B

    debian Author: Falko TimmeTags: Comments: 2

    Error: Debian Lenny public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B You run apt-get update and get the following errors: W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302BW: GPG error: http://ftp2.de.debian.org lenny Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B NO_PUBKEY 4D270D06F42584E6W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems  

  • Android: Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!

    android Author: Falko TimmeTags: Comments: 1

    Error: Android: Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! You want to build an Android app and get the following error: ant debug Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!Build failed

  • Installing rsnapshot On CentOS

    centos Author: NetzenTags: , Comments: 3

    Installing rsnapshot On CentOS Working for an IT Support company I needed a solution for automatically backing up a bunch of Linux servers, this guide will walk you through setting up rsnapshot on CentOS for automated rsync & ssh binary diff backups.

  • Enabling Compiz Fusion On Linux Mint 11

    linux_mint Author: CSchTags: , Comments: 3

    Enabling Compiz Fusion On Linux Mint 11 This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Linux Mint 11 desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

  • Installing Subversion And Configuring Access Through Different Protocols On Debian Squeeze

    debian Author: Falko TimmeTags: Comments: 1

    Installing Subversion And Configuring Access Through Different Protocols On Debian Squeeze Subversion (svn) is an open-source version control system (VCS), used in the development of many software projects. This tutorial shows how to install Subversion on Debian Squeeze and how to configure it to allow access to a repository through different protocols: file://, http://, https://, svn://, and svn+ssh://.

  • Monitoring ESX/ESXi Servers

    Author: EugeneR.Tags: , , Comments: 0

    Monitoring ESX/ESXi Servers The purpose is to highlight the most important topics related to setting up ESX/ESXi monitoring as well as applications hosted within managed virtual machines (a MySQL database is used in this tutorial).

  • Storing Files/Directories In Memory With tmpfs

    tux Author: Falko TimmeTags: Comments: 9

    Storing Files/Directories In Memory With tmpfs You probably know that reading from RAM is a lot of faster than reading files from the hard drive, and reduces your disk I/O. This article shows how you can store files and directories in memory instead of on the hard drive with the help of tmpfs (a file system for creating memory devices). This is ideal for file caches and other temporary data (such as PHP's session files if you are using session.save_handler = files) because the data is lost when you power down or reboot the system.

  • Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 6.0

    centos Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 2

    Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 6.0 In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 6.0 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.