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GlusterFS – Storage for your Cloud

Posted on March 25, 2017 by admin

GlusterFS is a scalable network filesystem. Using common off-the-shelf hardware, you can create large, distributed storage solutions for media streaming, data analysis, and other data- and bandwidth-intensive tasks. GlusterFS is free and open source software. https://www.gluster.org/ To install GlusterFS on

KernelCare – Update Kernel with out rebooting

Posted on March 25, 2017 by admin

KernelCare allows you to update kernel with out rebooting. This work with many popular distributions. This is a product by CloudLinux, you can purchase license from https://www.cloudlinux.com/all-products/product-overview/kernelcare To install KernelCare, run To activate you license key, run Example [root@localhost ~]#

Free Hosting Control Panel

Posted on March 24, 2017 by admin

ISPConfig Here are some of the FREE Control Panels for Web Hosting. ISPConfig ISPConfig is one of the oldest free hosting control panels. https://www.ispconfig.org/ Webmin Webmin is more of a server administration panel. You can do most of the tasks

Mounting WebDAV on Linux using Davfs

Posted on March 24, 2017 by admin

WebDAV stands for “Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning”. It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. To mount a WebDAV file system on Linux, for

Feral Interactive Offers Free Steam Key for Mesa Developers

Posted on March 22, 2017 by admin

Popular Linux game studio Feral Interactive have officially announced Free Steam keys for all their Linux Games to Mesa Developers. Mesa is an open-source implementation of the OpenGL and Vulkan specifications. Having games available to linux graphics stack developers allow

Linux shell – bash, zsh, chsh

Posted on March 17, 2017 by admin

Most linux systems use bash shell. When you take terminal, what you do is run bash. To see version of bash, run There are other shells, like dash, zsh, omyzsh available as replacement to bash. View Shell You Are using

Installing SSL on WSO2 Application Server

Posted on March 13, 2017 by admin

WSO2 is an Open Source Enterpise ready API and Application Server available fom http://wso2.com Inststruction for SSL certificate installation available at https://docs.wso2.com/display/AS521/Creating+New+Keystores First you need to Generate CSR and Private Key. Follow instructions at https://blog.hostonnet.com/csr Now you have .csr and

Checking hard disk health with smartctl

Posted on March 10, 2017 by admin

To check hard disk for error, run To list all smart data, run Here is a hard disk that is failing. This server had following messages in /var/log/messages

Format partition with mkfs

Posted on March 10, 2017 by admin

mkfs command is used to format disk partition in linux. To format a partition to ext4 format, run For example (be careful, you lose all data on /dev/sdb1).

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Posted on March 10, 2017 by admin

To install software on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, you can use command zypper or yast. zypper is command line tool like yum or apt. yast have GUI based on ncurses, that work in terminal. cnf is another useful tool that