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mtr using udp

Posted on June 20, 2017 by admin

After changing to new Internet Service Provider (RailWire), mtr stopped working properly. boby@hon-pc-01:~$ mtr -rw yahoo.com Start: Tue Jun 20 08:54:01 2017 HOST: hon-pc-01 Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|– 192.168.1.1 0.0% 10 2.7 3.2 1.9 7.2 1.5

Railwire FTTH vs BSNL DSL

Posted on June 19, 2017 by admin

I have been using BSNL DSL connection for last 10+ years. Before i get DSL connection, BSNL telephone connection was using 2 copper wire cable. When they started giving DSL, i have applied for connection. Had to wait like 1

Install phpMyAdmin in RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu/Debian

Posted on June 17, 2017 by admin

phpmyadmin auto login Installing phpMyAdmin for multiple servers Ubuntu 16.04 PhpMyAdmin root login problem Download latest version of phpMyAdmin from http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php You need to edit /usr/hostonnet/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php and set a random string for $cfg[‘blowfish_secret’] You can use any 32 char length

Raid 1 vs Single Disk Speed Test

Posted on June 11, 2017 by admin

I was trying to moving my /home directory to new btrfs raid 1 partition. Raid 1 is knowing as Mirroring, data is written to 2 disks. Data written to a Raid 1 array is like 10% slower than single hard

Repair MySQL MyISAM Database with myisamchk

Posted on June 10, 2017 by admin

myisamchk is a command line tool to repair MySQL MyISAM database. You need to run it a user root. To repair all MyISAM tables in a database, run Example [root@localhost ~]# myisamchk –recover /var/lib/mysql/w3blogs/wp_blogs – recovering (with sort) MyISAM-table ‘/var/lib/mysql/w3blogs/wp_blogs’

Partitioning with parted

Posted on June 10, 2017 by admin

parted is a command line program to partition hard disks. Viewing Partition To view partition on a hard disk, use Example I will use /dev/sdc as device name. root@hon-pc-01:~# parted /dev/sdc print Model: ATA ST31000528AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 1000GB Sector

Varnish Cache

Posted on June 10, 2017 by admin

Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator, that sit in between visors and web server. It caches frequently requested pages and serve them from memory. Varnish is Open Source software, you can download it from https://www.varnish-cache.org/ Varnish work as reverse

mount

Posted on June 9, 2017 by admin

Mounting NFS file system in CentOS 7 Creating Virtual Flesystem How to mount a new Hard Drive on your Linux Server Mounting WebDAV on Linux using Davfs

Creating Virtual Flesystem

Posted on June 9, 2017 by admin

First create a file with 2 GB size using command Lets format the file with Example root@backup:~# mkfs.ext4 my_drive.img mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015) Discarding device blocks: done Creating filesystem with 524288 4k blocks and 131072 inodes Filesystem UUID: 820ea230-6fad-4072-b8b6-028cc552d07f Superblock backups

Show Git Branch in Command Prompt

Posted on June 9, 2017 by admin

To show current active git branch in command prompt in linux terminal, edit ~/.bashrc Add following