Linux Tutorials on the topic “linux”

• Reducing Disk IO By Mounting Partitions With noatime

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux • Comments: 10

  Reducing Disk IO By Mounting Partitions With noatime Linux has a special mount option for file systems called noatime. If this option is set for a file system in /etc/fstab, then reading accesses will no longer cause the atime information (last access time - don't mix this up with the last modified time - if a file is changed, the modification date will still be set) that is associated with a file to be updated (in reverse this means that if noatime is not set, each read access will also result in a write operation). Therefore, using noatime can lead to significant performance gains.

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• How To Resize RAID Partitions (Shrink & Grow) (Software RAID)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux • Comments: 7

  How To Resize RAID Partitions (Shrink & Grow) (Software RAID) This article describes how you can shrink and grow existing software RAID partitions. I have tested this with non-LVM RAID1 partitions that use ext3 as the file system. I will describe this procedure for an intact RAID array and also a degraded RAID array.

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• Useful Uses Of netcat

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux • Comments: 8

  Useful Uses Of netcat This short article shows some useful netcat commands. netcat is known as the TCP/IP swiss army knife. From the netcat man page: netcat is a simple unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.

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• Installing And Configuring ntop

  Author: tboxmy • Tags: linux • Comments: 1

  Installing And Configuring ntop This is a tool to collect the network information with simple configurations. Users may use the web browser to access the current network views that include charts and statistics.

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• Set Up A Linux Playstation 3 Media Server (Ubuntu Hardy Heron)

  Author: topdog • Tags: linux, ubuntu • Comments: 34

  Set Up A Linux Playstation 3 Media Server (Ubuntu Hardy Heron) The Sony Play station 3 is a DLNA compatible device, DLNA is a framework where home electronics can share digital media and content seamlessly. This tutorial will provide instructions on setting up your Ubuntu hardy computer to share your video, music and photos, allowing you to play them through your DLNA compatible devices. Although several other open source media servers exist, i chose to use Fuppes due to its built in support for transcoding.

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• NIC Bonding On Slackware 12.1

  Author: mstjohn1974 • Tags: linux, other • Comments: 6

  NIC Bonding On Slackware 12.1 I was standing in front of a problem while I built a NFS Storage Server. It is necessary for me to have redundancy in every point of view. I solved all redundancy issues I had by using server hardware with redundant power supplies, a Raid 1+ 0 Raid array and two UPS’s one for each power supply. The only thing left in my mind was what about a network failure? Well just use the two Gig NIC’s and hook each of them up to its own switch. Great idea but how do I get them acting as one unit speak one single IP? NIC Bonding was my solution. After a couple of hours researching on the Internet stumbled upon the build in solution by using ifenslave.

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• dmidecode: Finding Out Hardware Details Without Opening The Computer Case

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, other • Comments: 4

  dmidecode: Finding Out Hardware Details Without Opening The Computer Case dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision. Thanks to this table, you can retrieve this information without having to probe for the actual hardware.

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• Logical Volume Manager: How can I extend a Volume Group?

  Author: sinanceylan • Tags: linux • Comments: 10

  Logical Volume Manager: How can I extend a Volume Group? It is a good choice to use LVM on Linux. It provides flexible storage management than any other traditional physical partitoning. With LVM, you can easily create, delete, resize storage volumes. First of all, if you want to know what LVM is, there are many documents on the Internet. In this example we will learn how to extend a Volume Group size.

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• Secure SSH Using WiKID Two-Factor Authentication And TACACS+

  Author: nowen • Tags: linux, security • Comments: 0

  Secure SSH Using WiKID Two-Factor Authentication And TACACS+ These instructions are designed to help you configure and test using the WiKID TACACS+ protocol module via Linux PAM on Red Hat. This document has been updated to cover pam .99 and higher. We assume that you have already installed the open-source WiKID Strong Authentication Server Community Edition.

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• Installing ehcp (Easy Hosting Control Panel) On Any Debian Or Apt-Get Based Distro, Including Ubuntu

  Author: bvidinli • Tags: apache, control panels, debian, dns, ftp, ispconfig, linux, mysql, other, php, postfix, ubuntu • Comments: 6

  Installing ehcp (Easy Hosting Control Panel) On Any Debian Or Apt-Get Based Distro, Including Ubuntu In this tutorial I will show you howto install ehcp on any debian based distro, or any distro that has apt-get support. ehcp stands for Easy Hosting Control Panel. It may be used by anyone wanting to host multiple domains in his dedicated/vps server. It is a hosting control panel under development.

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