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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

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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

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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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Repairing Mysql replication

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One of the most important procedure in setting up master-slave replication on Mysql database successfully is to have a consistent dump or backup of database(s) from the master server by locking all tables during mysqldump so...

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no wifi,looping sound,no audio,slow audio playback on ubuntu?

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I’ve been working with the servers most of the time, and few days ago, i had free time to test ubuntu on one of my laptop, it’s not new but not too old either, it’s dual core MSI VR320 and guess what it’s...

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Configure Sendmail for SMTP Authentication

by tux
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1. Wonder why you can’t send email from your linux server? 2. Is your mail server or 3rd party email hosting provider requires authentication for your outgoing server to send out emails successfully? 3. Are you using a...

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Quick Tip: How to Install phpMyAdmin

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Assuming you already have mysql server installed on your machine, the reason you are installing phpmyadmin is to ease  your administration of  your MySQL like database creation and deletion, create/alter/drop/view tables and...

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