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• Apache And MySQL Monitoring With Bijk On Debian Lenny

  Author: zdenek • Tags: apache, debian, monitoring, mysql • Comments: 0

  Apache And MySQL Monitoring With Bijk On Debian Lenny This tutorial describes how you can monitor your server with the tool Bijk. Bijk creates online 30 graphs about load, CPU, memory, traffic, Apache, NginX, PostreSQL and others with alerts. Bijk can be used on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat and Gentoo. In this article I will explain how to install Bijk on Debian.

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• Install Linux Without Burning An ISO To CD/DVD - Use The ISO Downloaded To Your Hard Drive

  Author: vtapas • Tags: linux, suse • Comments: 16

  Install Linux Without Burning An ISO To CD/DVD - Use The ISO Downloaded To Your Hard Drive I am describing here a method to install Linux without using a DVD ROM or CD Drive; I have checked it myself. There are many ways to do so you can install Linux by 1) booting from the network; 2) having an ISO image on your hard disk; 3) booting from USB; 4) installing a linux system from scratch by building your own.

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• Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 3

  Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

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• Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 13 x86_64)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: antivirus, fedora, postfix • Comments: 3

  Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 13 x86_64) This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses.

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• Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13 (LAMP)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, fedora, web server • Comments: 1

  Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 13 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 13 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

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• Generating Web Site Statistics With AWStats & JAWStats On Debian Lenny

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, debian, web server • Comments: 3

  Generating Web Site Statistics With AWStats & JAWStats On Debian Lenny This tutorial explains how you can generate statistics for your web site with AWStats and JAWStats on a Debian Lenny web server. AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web server statistics. JAWStats runs in conjunction with AWStats and produces clear and informative charts, graphs and tables about your website visitors. AWStats is able to create graphical web pages for the statistics, but JAWStats presents this data in a much nicer way - it's much better organized and makes use of Ajax and Flash.

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• How To Install BIKA LIMS Inkosi On Ubuntu Server In 15 Minutes

  Author: mrpurple • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 1

  How To Install BIKA LIMS Inkosi On Ubuntu Server In 15 Minutes This howto describes how to build a standalone BIKA LIMS solution on top of Ubuntu server. Once you have downloaded and installed the basic Ubuntu the whole process of cutting and pasting takes about 15 minutes.

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• How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB2 Configuration) (Ubuntu 10.04)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: storage, ubuntu • Comments: 7

  How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB2 Configuration) (Ubuntu 10.04) This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Ubuntu 10.04). The GRUB2 bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

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• Disk Backup With Amanda On Debian Lenny

  Author: ycardonguard • Tags: backup, debian • Comments: 2

  Disk Backup With Amanda On Debian Lenny Amanda is an open source client/server solution to back up filesystems. Backups are triggered by the backup server, backup definitions are located on the servers but exclusion lists are located on the client.

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• Setting Up A FreeRadius Based AAA Server With MySQL & Management With Daloradius

  Author: awan • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 29

  Setting Up A FreeRadius Based AAA Server With MySQL & Management With Daloradius This tutorial explains how you can set up a FreeRadius (1.1.7) server with Wifi authentication and accounting in conjunction with MySQL & web management with Daloradius on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition. This howto should work for a novice. Production deployment is also possible with minor tweaking. But as usual I do not guarantee anything & take no responsibilities if something goes wrong.

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