Category: Linux

How To Define Nagios Contacts With Email

Nagios is one of the best open source server and network monitoring solutions available.  Using the flexible nagios framework, you can monitor pretty much anything (including database and custom application)....

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How To Install Nagios On CentOS 6

Step 1 – Install Packages on Monitoring Server rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm yum -y install nagios nagios-plugins-all nagios-plugins-nrpe nrpe php httpd chkconfig httpd on && chkconfig nagios on...

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Installing and configuring FFmpeg and FFpeg-Php

FFMPEG is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video segments. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. NOTES: This guide had been used effectively on several...

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CentOS 6 – MySQL Server & PHPMyAdmin

Install and Configure Notes If you already have MySQL installed from the yum repositories, then you won’t be able to follow this guide as your MySQL version is too old....

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CentOS 6 – Apache Web Server

Install, Configure and Secure Environment Fresh install of CentOS-6.3-x86_64-minimal with the latest updates yum update -y # uname -sro Linux 2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.x86_64 GNU/Linux I used nano as the text editor, but you can just as easily...

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Clear Memory Cache on Linux Server

By default the Linux OS has a very efficient memory management process that should be freeing any cached memory on the machine that it is being run on. However when...

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How To Extract .bz2 Files

In order to extract .bz2 compressed files on Linux 1. If the file is .tar.bz2, then you can use [code]tar xjvf file.tar.bz2[/code] 2 To extract it all at once. If...

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How to Install an OpenVPN Server on CentOS 6

This article will guide you through the setup and configuration of OpenVPN server on your CentOS 6 cloud server. We will also cover how to configure your Windows, OS X,...

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How to setup OpenVPN in a Debian 6 VPS

Sometimes, especially with all of the sales, you can gather quite a few extra VPS servers. Especially small ones that aren’t very good for large scale projects. This is why...

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PPTP Debian/Ubuntu OpenVZ Setup Script

This guide is intended for those who want to set up a PPTP VPN on OpenVZ with Debian or Ubuntu on a capable provider such as ShineServers.Com . Lots of time has...

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