While updating a server, I got perl dependency error with Samba
# yum upgrade
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samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5.i386 from base has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: perl(Convert::ASN1) is needed by package samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5.i386 (base)
Error: Missing Dependency:...
Monit is another tool for monitoring, it just do not give you a graphical interface, but it also setup alerts for you when your server use more cpu or ram, or if some service like apache stop, it automatically try to restart it.
Official website: http://mmonit.com/monit/
Documentation:...
In previous post, I explained how to install Munin on CentOS and here I will explain how to configure and view it.
Open /etc/munin/munin.conf
It will be like
dbdir /var/lib/munin
htmldir /var/www/www.myliteraturetechlife.com/web/monitoring
logdir /var/log/munin
rundir ...
Installation of Munin is briefly explained in its documentation for almost all Linux distributions. In this post, I will just explain how to install it in CentOS.
We will use yum to install Munin, however for this we will have to add repo
rpm -Uvh...
Munin is a free tool to monitor a server, if you are running a high traffic production servers then it is very important to monitor it and Munin provide a graphical interface to monitor a server.
Munin official website: http://munin-monitoring.org/
Munin official documentation:...
Today I installed munin on a new server, and after then when I ran yum update, it got me dependencies error
[root@~]# yum -y update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, protectbase
Determining fastest mirrors
* addons: pubmirrors.reflected.net
* base: mirror.fdcservers.net
* epel:...
As the internet is becoming larger day by day, therefore security risks for your servers are also increasing. If your server is connected to internet and is hosting some good high traffic and popular websites, then there are high chances that you get SYN flooding. SYN flooding is a kind of DOS...
All linux and Unix distributions comes with kill command inside.
Killing process by name
If you know the process name which you want to kill then you can simply use
killall [process_name]
killall -9 [process_name]
Killing process by process ID
You can find process ID of a process...
If you find a process creating load on your linux machine, and you want to find the application, file or script which is running this process and ps aux command is your friend.
Suppose, a php process is running and creating load, you can run
ps aux | grep php
It will show the the path to file...
Magento is a campus management system. Some time when you move your website to new location or to new directory, it require to change Base URL in the database of Magento.
You can use phpmyadmin to change this database or you can directly change it from command line
Using PhpMyadmin
Open...