Linux Tutorials on the topic “debian”
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Shell Scripting Part V: Functions in Bash
Author: jonilyn2730 • Tags: arch linux, debian, fedora, freebsd, linux, mandriva, opensuse, shell, suse, ubuntu • Comments: 8
Welcome to part 5 of HowToForge's shell scripting tutorial series. In this part, you will learn how to efficiently structure your scripts by creating functions. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to know how to create functions in the Linux Bash Shell, pass parameters to your functions and return some values from a function to your main code.
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How to install Asterisk 13 on Debian
Author: Ahmed Qadeer • Tags: debian, linux, server • Comments: 7
Asterisk is a Open Source framework for building communication applications. Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a VoIP communication server, it powers IP PBX systems, VoIP gateways, conference servers and is used by companies, carriers and governments worldwide. This tutorial shows the installation of Asterisk 13 on Debian.
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How to setup Raspberry Pi as Backup Server for Linux and Windows Desktops
Author: Stephan Jau • Tags: linux, raspbian, debian, samba • Comments: 13
The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers. They are rather cheap and are well suited for running a backup server or voip server. This tutorial describes the complete installation of the Raspberry PI from downloading and installing Raspian, the installation and configuration of Samba and how to backup Windows and Linux Desktops on the Raspberry Pi.
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Installing Online Editors on Debian and Ubuntu with ONLYOFFICE Document Server
Author: Daria • Tags: debian, ubuntu • Comments: 6
ONLYOFFICE is a free, open source software that enables teams to manage projects, customer relations and documents in one place. This tutorial explains the installation of ONLYOFFICE and the ONLYOFFICE Document Server on Debian and Ubuntu.
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How to build nginx with Google PageSpeed module on Debian 8 (Jessie)
Author: howtoforge • Tags: debian, nginx, web server • Comments: 7
This tutorial explains how to build nginx with the latest version of the Google PageSpeed (nginx_pagespeed) module on Debian Jessie. The PageSpeed module applies web performance best practices to pages, and associated assets (CSS, JavaScript, images) and therefore speeds up your web site and reduces load times.
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How to install a Debian 8 (Jessie) Minimal Server
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: debian, linux • Comments: 18
This tutorial shows how to install a Debian 8 (Jessie) minimal server in detail with many screenshots. The purpose of this guide is to provide a minimal setup that can be used as basis for our other Debian 8 tutorials here at howtoforge.com.
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How to install a Debian 7 (Wheezy) Minimal Server
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, linux • Comments: 4
This tutorial shows how to install a Debian 7 (Wheezy) minimal server. The purpose of this guide is to provide a minimal Debian setup that can be used as basis for our other tutorials here at howtoforge.
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How to monitor OpenVZ limits with vzwatchd on Debian and Ubuntu
Author: Till Brehm • Tags: debian, linux, monitoring, ubuntu • Comments: 2
Vzwatchd is an OpenVZ monitoring daemon that informs the server administrator by email when a limit of the container is reached. OpenVZ is a Linux Kernel virtualisation technology that is often used by Web Hosting services, it is the free core of the commercial virtuozzo virtualisation application. OpenVZ is a lightweight virtualisation which has less overhead then KVM or XEN, it is more like a Linux LXC jail but with advanced limit options to define how many ressources a virtual machine may use and it has support for filesystem quota.
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Using Putty to remotely open GUI applications
Author: Akshay Pai • Tags: linux, debian, desktop • Comments: 10
Remote connections can be established with system over a network through SSH (secure shell) easily, we can login, perform actions or send commands to another system remotely trough this conection on the commandline. But what we cannot do is launch a GUI application for viewing content present in the remote node. This is the disadvantage of using ssh in a terminal. But this disadvantage can be easily solved by making use of "putty", a remote login application which can not only be used to login to a remote node, but also launch GUI applications. Examples of GUI applications are Browser, text viewers, etc.
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Getting started with commandline encryption tools on Linux
Author: Akshay Pai • Tags: linux, debian, ubuntu, centos, opensuse, security • Comments: 2
Encryption is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can read them. With almost no privacy in this digital generation of our's, encryption of our data is one of the most required tools. Most of the applications like gmail encrypt our data, but the data on your system is still unsecured and there are hackers or unauthorised users waiting to access them. One way to minimize the risk of data theft is to encrypt the data that is present even on our local system. This tutorial demonstrates several methods of encrypting the data on Linux systems using commandline tools.