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Terminal Commans to find out which ports are listening / open on your Linux Server

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

You may use netstat command, which print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships etc. Another (and suggested) option is to use lsof command, which list open files, and ports on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and other

Restore Desktop Icons in Linux

Posted on August 7, 2014 by sherly

The latest version of Gnome desktop has removed all of the desktop icons. The global configuration will not allow for the change that is needed and will require each user to implement the change within their shell. 1. Login to

How do you switch to Linux?

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Annie

Most modern Linux distributions make it fairly easy to switch from Windows. Wubi lets you install Ubuntu in a dual-boot configuration from Windows. For most other distros, such as Linux Mint or Debian, it’s mostly a matter of grabbing the

How to solve 451 Temporary local problem – please try later error in exim mail server

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

My domain is hosted on a linux server and I am using Exim mail server on the same. Today when I tried to send an email via webmail, got the following error message: Tried in all interfaces such as Horde,

Basic “Find” Commands for Finding Files

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Annie

Find all the files whose name is New.txt in a current working directory. Find Files Under Home Directory Find Files Using Name and Ignoring Case Find all files having .txt extension find /home/stefin -name ‘*.txt’

Auto Login to Linux Console in CentOS 6

Posted on March 9, 2013 by admin

To auto login to linux console on boot, edit /etc/init/tty.conf vi /etc/init/tty.conf Find exec /sbin/mingetty $TTY Replace with exec /sbin/mingetty –autologin root $TTY diff with original tty.conf [root@localhost ~]# diff /etc/init/tty.conf ~/tty.conf.original 9c9 < exec /sbin/mingetty --autologin root $TTY ---

Converting CentOS to CloudLinux

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Annie

To Install CloudLinux, run If you have key based license, run If you have IP based license After installation finished, reboot the server, so server will boot into CloudLinux kernel After reboot, you will see kernel with “lve” Back to

Windows 7 Sins

Posted on June 7, 2010 by admin

After going through ubuntu forum i found The site tells why you should not use windows.

Install festival tts in ubuntu

Posted on September 12, 2009 by admin

festival is a tts (text-to-speech) software in ubuntu that offers several different voices. To install festival, run sudo apt-get install festival Now to use festival, in command line type echo “Host On Net Provides Web Hosting” | festival –tts Or

Linux netbooks expected to reach 50% market share

Posted on May 15, 2009 by admin

Linpus Technologies Inc, a Linux operating system (OS) developer, expects Linux-based netbooks to reach 50 percent market share by next year, on a par with Microsoft Inc’s Windows platform, company general manager Stephen Lim said yesterday. “More and more chip

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