Linux Tutorials on the topic “other”

  • How To Resize ext3 Partitions Without Losing Data

    Author: Falko Timme • Tags: , • Comments: 64

    How To Resize ext3 Partitions Without Losing Data This article is about resizing ext3 partitions without losing data. It shows how to shrink and enlarge existing ext3 partitions and how to merge two ext3 partitions. This can be quite useful if you do not use LVM and you realize that your existing partitioning does not meet your actual needs anymore.

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  • How do I scan my Linux system for rootkits, worms, trojans, etc.?

    linux Author: Falko Timme • Tags: , , • Comments: 3

    Either with chkrootkit or with rkhunter. chkrootkit Either install the package that comes with your distribution (on Debian you would run apt-get install chkrootkit ), or download the sources from www.chkrootkit.org and install manually: wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.pangeia.com.br/pub/seg/pac/chkrootkit.tar.gz tar xvfz chkrootkit.tar.gz cd chkrootkit-<version>/ make sense Afterwards, you can move the chkrootkit directory somewhere else, e.g. /usr/local/chkrootkit:

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  • IHLFS: Full Control Over What You're Installing

    Author: bonassis • Tags: • Comments: 0

    IHLFS: Check What You're Installing (And More) Here I describe the tool IHLFS which enables you to have full control over the install process. It works with installation from source, but also with a installation command like RPM. The user can view all the changes before a final install is performed. The user has the choice anytime to move the changes to the real system or not. It's based on the unionfs filesystem, combined with well chosen mounts and chroot.

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  • Using and Customizing Templates in OpenOffice.org

    Author: solveig • Tags: • Comments: 0

    Using and Customizing Templates in OpenOffice.org I believe in using tools. And if the tools are easy to use and free, so much the better. That's why I'm a big proponent of using templates. Templates are one of the best ways to save time, effort, and be sure that your documents are consistent when they need to be.

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  • Quick And Dirty Wpad.dat On Ipcop Box

    Author: dennyhalim • Tags: • Comments: 1

    Quick And Dirty Wpad.dat On Ipcop Box wpad is short for Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol. It's used to tell your browser what proxy it can use without having to go to each and every pc on your network to do so. This is a quick and dirty howto. It was tested and worked out ok on my system. But I don't guarantee it won't break yours.

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  • How To Set Up A DHCP Server For Your LAN

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

    How To Set Up A DHCP Server For Your LAN This tutorial describes how to set up a DHCP server (ISC-DHCP) for your local network. DHCP is short for "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol", it's a protocol that handles the assignment of IP addresses, subnet masks, default routers, and other IP parameters to client PCs that don't have a static IP address. Such computers try to find a DHCP server in their local network which in turn assigns them an IP address, gateway, etc. so that they can connect to the internet or other computers from the local network.

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  • Easy RSS Syndication with MagpieRSS

    Author: Spudchat • Tags: • Comments: 4

    Easy RSS Syndication with MagpieRSS MagpieRSS, affectionately known as Magpie, is an RSS and Atom parser for PHP. It allows you to display the newest articles from websites with RSS or Atom feeds on your own site. This is a great way to add new, fresh, and relevant information to your site. It parses RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, and has some support for RSS 2.0 as well as Atom 0.3.

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  • Integration of dbus and KDE: starting and stopping the session part of dbus with KDM.

    Author: stefbon • Tags: • Comments: 0

    Integration of dbus and KDE: starting and stopping the session part of dbus with KDM Since some time now a lot of applications make use of D-BUS. This is the case with KDE 3.5, the current stable release of KDE. With the upcomming KDE 4, D-BUS is getting more important, replacing DCOP. In this howto I want to describe a way to start and stop the user and session dependent part of dbus.

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  • I get the feeling that my hard disk is very slow. Is there a way I can verify and tune it?

    apache Author: Falko Timme • Tags: • Comments: 0

    You can use hdparm to tune your hard disk. On Debian, you would run apt-get install hdparm to install it. hdparm --help shows a list of all available options. To get more information about your hard disk, run hdparm -i /dev/hda This will look like: /dev/hda: Model=MAXTOR 6L060J3, FwRev=A93.0500, SerialNo=663214759549 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1819kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=4047/16/255, CurSects=16511760, LBA=yes, LBAsects=117266688 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1: * signifies the current active mode To see how fast your hard disk currently is execute

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  • Is it possible to find out which CPU my Linux system uses?

    apache Author: Falko Timme • Tags: • Comments: 1

    Yes, with cat /proc/cpuinfo

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