Author: Rahul

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) provides persistent block storage for using with Amazon instances. Each Amazon EBS volume offering high availability and durability. It has capability to automatically replicate in its Availability Zone to protect you from component failure. This article will help you to Create and Add EBS Volume to your existing instance. All the command are used with this article are used with CentOS 6.5. So change commands used in Step #3 as per operating system used. Step 1: Create an EBS Volume First we need to login to AWS EC2 dashboard. After login navigate to following location…

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) are mostly used in web development. Is very useful for connecting servers using FTP protocol for transferring files between server and client. This article will provide you with basic info about top FTP clients for windows systems. Personally, I always use FileZilla as FTP clients, So the below list can be used for Alternatives of FileZilla. 1. FileZilla FTP Client FileZilla is the most popular FTP client used for connecting FTP servers. It is popular with its user-friendly features. FileZilla is cross-platform and supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS), and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). […

This article is used helpful for installing SSL certificate signed by CA for our WHM services. By default all services used self signed certificate in WHM/cPanel and we always get an warning while using any secured service like WHM/cPanel access, webmail access etc. Using this article we will install trusted ssl certificate in our WHM/cPanel server. Follow the below steps to do it. Step 1: Check System Hostname Check your current system hostname to generate csr by going to following location Home » Networking Setup » Change Hostname Or we can use linux command to find systems hostname # hostname…

Have you forgotten MariaDB root password? You don’t know how to recover it. Not to worry, this tutorial will help you to reset MariaDB root password on Linux system. Let’s follow this step by step tutorial to reset MariaDB root password on your Linux systems. Step 1 – Start MariaDB in Safe Mode First of all, you need to stop MariaDB service on your system. You can do this using the following command. sudo systemctl stop mysql.service Now start your MariaDB service in safe mode using skip grant and run this command in the background. mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables & Step 2…

Xnoise is a popular media player in Linux worlds for GTK+ with an intuitive user interface with his great speed and many features. Xnoise plays audio as well as plays video very efficientyly. Features of Xnoise Player Xnoise is popular with its lot of features like. Simple GUI Support of both Music and Videos Equalizer with sound presets Automatic media folder monitoring Automatic album art fetching Capability to State restore Can play virtually all media via GStreamer Install Xnoise Player on Ubuntu Use following set of commands to install SMPlayer on your Ubuntu systems. $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shkn/xnoise $ sudo…

MariaDB An enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. MariaDB can be an better choice for choice for database professionals looking for a robust, scalable, and reliable SQL server. MariaDB has a number of updated features over MySQL. Use below links to read features comparison between MariaDB and MySQL Features of MariaDB vs MySQL Compatibility between MariaDB vs MySQL Read more about MariaDB This article will help you to install MariaDB 5.5 in CentOS, RHEL 6/5 and Fedora 19/18/17 systems using Yum Step 1: Add MariaDB Yum Repositories First we need to add MariaDB yum repository in our system. Below is the…

Samba is a popular open-source software suite that allows Linux systems to share files and printers with other operating systems, including Windows. Setting up a network share using Samba on Linux is a relatively simple process, and can be done in just a few steps. Step 1: Install Samba The first step in setting up a network share using Samba is to ensure that the Samba software is installed on your Linux system. You can do this by using your distribution’s package manager to install the “samba” package. For example, on Debian-based systems such as Ubuntu, you can install Samba…

PartKeepr is an open source Inventory Manage System, primarily designed for electronic components. This article will help you to install Install PartKeepr in CentOS & RHEL Systems. We assume you already have LAMP environment setup on your system or use LAMP setup instructions on CentOS/RHEL system. Step 1: Install Required Packages PartKeepr required multiple packages, Use following set of commands to install them, PHP and pear packages. # yum install php-pear php-pecl-imagick php-gd Install below pear packages as well # pear channel-discover pear.symfony.com # pear channel-discover pear.doctrine-project.org # pear channel-discover pear.twig-project.org # pear install pear.doctrine-project.org/DoctrineORM # pear install doctrine/DoctrineSymfonyYaml #…

Kile is an integrated LATEX environment for the KDE desktop. Kile gives you the ability to use all the functionality of LATEX in a graphical interface, giving you easy, immediate, and customized access to all programs for LATEX code completion, compiling, post processing, debugging, conversion and viewing tools; you also get very handy wizards, a LATEX reference and a powerful project management. Some Features of Kile IDE Compile, convert and view your document with . Auto-completion of (La)TeX commands Templates and wizards make starting a new document very little work. Collect documents that belong together into a project. Easy insertion…

CentALT RPM Repository provides most of updated packages for RHEL based systems. I also use this repository for getting recent version of packages. This article will help you to install CentALT repository in CentOS 6/5, RHEL 6/5 systems. Install CentALT in CentOS/RHEL 6/5 Use one of below option to install CentALT repository as per your system architecture and operating system. CentOS/RHEL 6, 32 Bit (i386): # rpm -Uvh http://centos.alt.ru/repository/centos/6/i386/centalt-release-6-1.noarch.rpm CentOS/RHEL 6, 64 Bit x86_64): # rpm -Uvh http://centos.alt.ru/repository/centos/6/x86_64/centalt-release-6-1.noarch.rpm CentOS/RHEL 5, 32 Bit (i386): # rpm -Uvh http://centos.alt.ru/repository/centos/5/i386/centalt-release-5-3.noarch.rpm CentOS/RHEL 5, 64 Bit (x86_64): # rpm -Uvh http://centos.alt.ru/repository/centos/5/x86_64/centalt-release-5-3.noarch.rpm