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Fully Utilizing Your X-Core CPU
Author: gbi •
Tags: linux •
Comments: 9 Fully Utilizing Your X-Core CPU Almost all systems sold nowadays have at least a dual-core CPU, even triple- or quad-cores are getting cheaper and getting standard in the near future. But how to utilize your shiny x-core to it's full potential, with applications that are only utilizing one core ? With Linux, which has strong multitasking capabilities as all unixoid operating systems, there is an easy possibility to parallelize tasks which are normally only using one core of an x-core CPU.
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Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Lenny
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: debian, monitoring •
Comments: 11 Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Lenny In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Lenny server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action such as a restart if it finds a service is not behaving as expected. The combination of the two gives you full monitoring: graphics that lets you recognize current or upcoming problems (like "We need a bigger server soon, our load average is increasing rapidly."), and a watchdog that ensures the availability of the monitored services.
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Easy Way To Create Bootable Ubuntu USB Pendrive
Author: hero1900 •
Tags: ubuntu, desktop •
Comments: 2 Easy Way To Create Bootable Ubuntu USB Pendrive This short guide explains how you can create a bootable Ubuntu USB pendrive.
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Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On FreeBSD
Author: eddiechen •
Tags: freebsd, ftp •
Comments: 1 Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On FreeBSD iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.6, it supports FreeBSD 7.2 and 8.0 (both i386 and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. The OpenLDAP backend of iRedMail allows you to integrate all kinds of applications. This guide shows you how to integrate pure-ftpd into the iRedMail ldap backend on FreeBSD 7.2, passwords will be stored in ldap and you can change the password through webmail.
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Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 9.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: ftp, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 9.10 This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup.
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How To Upgrade Debian Etch To Lenny
Author: Netzen •
Tags: debian •
Comments: 6 How To Upgrade Debian Etch To Lenny Debian Etch is soon to be unsupported by the Debian team, therefore all Debian Linux Servers need to be upgraded to Debian Lenny. I work for Netzen (an IT Support company) and have upgraded many Linux servers to Debian Lenny over the past months, so I am providing this guide on how to upgrade Debian Etch to Debian Lenny to the HowtoForge community.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.2
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: lighttpd, suse •
Comments: 0 Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.2 Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 11.2 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Network Analysis With Wireshark On Ubuntu 9.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, monitoring, ubuntu •
Comments: 12 Network Analysis With Wireshark On Ubuntu 9.10 Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer (or "packet sniffer") that can be used for network analysis, troubleshooting, software development, education, etc. This guide shows how to install and use it on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop to analyze the traffic on the local network card.
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Creating MySQL Backups With AutoMySQLBackup On Ubuntu 9.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: mysql, backup, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Creating MySQL Backups With AutoMySQLBackup On Ubuntu 9.10 AutoMySQLBackup is a shell script that lets you take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. It can back up multiple databases, compress the backups, back up remote databases, and email the logs. This tutorial explains how to install and use it on an Ubuntu 9.10 server.
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How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala / Debian 5 Lenny With Magnet Link Support
Author: Stephan Jau • Tags: debian, ubuntu • Comments: 16How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala / Debian 5 Lenny With Magnet Link Support rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system - contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze. There are a couple of webinterfaces for it but they are not truly need. SSH access combined with the "screen" program provide you all the tools you need. This howto works for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and for Debian 5 Lenny.
