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Quick Tip: Set or change Timezone in Centos/Redhat Linux using timedatectl

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Check the current timezone[root@linuxserver ~]# ls -lt /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 38 Aug 25 14:15 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York As you can see the current timezone is NY timezone, if we...

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SSH Remote Host Identification has changed

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SSH Remote Host Identification has changed Error and Fixes Normally you see this message by remotely accessing via ssh on target systems like Cisco, Juniper or Linux/Unix for possible reasons like: a.The target systems’...

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Quick Tip: Use tcpdump in Linux to capture network packets and view in wireshark

by Free Linux
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Important note to remember: a. capture it in full length, using the -s 0 options b. save it in a file, better to make the extension as .pcap so wireshark can associate directly 1.Identify which interface you want to listen...

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Quick tip: Change Timezone in Linux in different ways

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There is some instance during the Linux installation that you did not bother to set the correct timezone for any reasons like sometimes you are just lazy to set it, you’re in a rush to finish what your boss want you to...

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Quick tip: Set date and time in Linux

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There are few ways to set the date and time on Linux command line. In order to do this, you must login as root and execute the following methods as follow: For you to remember the syntax, issue the command “date”...

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Quick tip: how to connect linux php applications to MSSQL via freetds

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Here’s one trick to do that: Step 1. Install  FreeTDS FreeTDS Website: choose FreeTDS source distribution Compile parameter: –prefix=/usr/local/freetds –enable-msdblib Then, copy /etc/ld.so.conf, to...

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Quick tip: Disable FTP & Telnet access on HP-UX

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1. FTP & Telnet  daemons are controlled by the inetd, so to simply stop the service, just comment the lines under /etc/inetd.conf ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l telnet stream tcp6 nowait root...

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Configure Postfix to use Gmail in RHEL/CentOS

by tux
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Relaying to Gmail via smtp.gmail.com can be accomplished by configuring your Postfix with SASL authentication and TLS encryption. The common errors you will encounter if sending from your postfix mail server failing to gmail.com...

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Splitting up Apache Logs for Subdomains

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If you have multiple virtual hosts in your server and you specified different log files for each, it is more organized and easy to locate, but the downside is Linux has so called file descriptors or the number of files that it...

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Automatic unlimited subdomains via Apache mod_rewrite

by tux
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Wondering how blogger website gives you a subdomain from the blogspot.com domain based on  your username of your choice? Well, the concept for this tutorial is somewhat related with it on setting up unlimited subdomains...

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