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Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Convert::ASN1) is needed by package samba

shk — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:10:10 +0000

While updating a server, I got perl dependency error with Samba # yum upgrade ..... ..... 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: perl(Convert::ASN1) is needed by package samba-3.0.33-3.7.el5.i386 (base) Recommended reading Missing Dependency: librrd.so.2 after munin installation Solution: ERROR: Unable to install [...]

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Installing and configuring Monit

shk — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:32:13 +0000

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: http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/ Official wiki: http://mmonit.com/wiki/ Yum is ofcourse will [...]

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Configuring Munin in CentOS

shk — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:19:01 +0000

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 /var/run/munin tmpldir /etc/munin/templates [server1.myliteraturetechlife.com] address 127.0.0.1 use_node_name yes You can replace htmldir with link of your html directory. [...]

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How to install Munin in CentOS Kloxo Lxadmin

shk — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:10:05 +0000

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 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm Just create the following file with the contents show [...]

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Monitor your server with Munin

shk — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:03:28 +0000

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: http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/Documentation Munin Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/munin/files/ I will be writing on installation and configuration [...]

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Missing Dependency: librrd.so.2 after munin installation

shk — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:03:59 +0000

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: mirror.steadfast.net * extras: centos.corenetworks.net * updates: centos.corenetworks.net addons | 951 B 00:00 addons/primary | 202 [...]

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Securing server from SYN flooding DOS attack

shk — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:24:57 +0000

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 attack, a.k.a “Deniel [...]

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How to kill a process in Linux

shk — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:09:33 +0000

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 using pidof [process_name] and then kill [process_ID] [...]

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How to find process root in Linux

shk — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:04:38 +0000

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 [...]

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How to change base URL in Magento

shk — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:01:47 +0000

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 database, Find the table [...]

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