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VSFTPD Server with pop3 Auth
VSFTPD Server with pop3 Auth can be helpful as centralized auth with the use of users email id & password. Also there is no need to provide additional frontend to change their ftp passwords, as...
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OpenVpn drops connection after hour – fix.
Recently we noticed openvpn clients were disconnecting after every hour. We never realized it earlier as there was hardly any requirement to keep connection active for hours. This is probably issue...
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Fedora – Mount partition without authentication
This article is for Fedora Gnome Shell users, who does not wish to enter root password while mounting partition as normal user. You need to search & replace auth_admin_keep with yes from the...
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Fix Vnc Client blank screen on Mate Desktop – Fedora
By default when you run vncserver on Fedora box running gnome, you get desktop on vnc client connections. Whereas with MATE as the only desktop environment, you’ll not get any display on vnc...
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Mirror SVN Repository
Mirror SVN Repository can be useful to offload server or If you have developers at different location OR you have requirement to keep offsite mirror ready for recovery. I have used svn proxy. It works...
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Upgrade Fedora 17 to 18 -using shell
This post explains howto Upgrade Fedora 17 to 18 using shell. 32bit rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/DE7F38BD.txt rpm -Uvh...
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Upgrade Fedora 17 to 18 using fedup OR fedora-upgrade
Apart from using yum upgrade, you can also use fedup OR fedora-upgrade to upgrade fedora to latest version available. Using fedup With fedora 18 fedup replaces preuprade utility. It basically downloads...
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Fedora 18 switch to MATE Desktop
Fedora 18 is released with support for MATE desktop. For previous release one had to install MATE from third party repository. Whereas with latest version you can get MATE support with single command....
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How to Disable Graphical Boot & Shutdown on Fedora
If you are not a fan of graphical boot / shutdown & wish to disable it, this post will explain how to disable. sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/grub #change from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0...
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Install Citrix XenServer using PXE
This post covers how to Install Citrix XenServer using pxe. As a prerequisite you need to have tftp server configured. Create tftp dir for xenserver mkdir -p /tftpboot/images/xenserver Mount & copy...
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Ubuntu 12.10 – Switch to MATE
Ubuntu 12.10 – Switch to MATE. This post will help you to switch from Unity to Mate Desktop on Ubuntu 12.10 Install MATE #ADD Anyone sudo add-apt-repository "deb...
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Upgrade svn server using source
This post describes how to upgrade svn server using source. It works to upgrade subversion 1.7 to 1.8. tar jxvf subversion-1.8.tar.bz2 ./configure --bindir=/bin --sbindir=/sbin...
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Mirror SVN Repository – For 1.8.x
If you are using older version, refer. Mirror SVN Repository can be useful to offload server or If you have developers at different location OR you have requirement to keep offsite mirror ready for...
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Upgrade Fedora 18 to 19 -using shell
Fedora 19 is released, you can upgrade fedora 18 to 19 using shell OR download media for fresh installations. To upgrade using shell, you need to run following commands. sudo yum update -y sudo rpm...
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XenServer – Apply patches using bash script
With the release of XenServer 6.2, Citrix has provided best & easy to use virtulization option for free. Only limitation with free xenserver is you can’t use xencenter to apply patches. Which...
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Upgrade Fedora 19 to 20 -using shell
Fedora 20 is released, you can upgrade fedora 19 to 20 using shell OR download media for fresh installations. To upgrade using shell, you need to run following commands. sudo yum update -y sudo rpm...
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Physical to Virtual Machine Migration using Clonezilla – P2V
We have already used few methods for Physical to Virtual Machine Migration using different tools. This time we are focusing on clonezilla which is probably easiest tool available for p2v migration. You...
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Make your own SIEM solution for Free
To make your own SIEM solution all you need is Log collector agents Log parser Correlation engine Storage (back-end) Elasticsearch UI Here we will discuss each of the above one by one details like...
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Upgrade Fedora 20 to 21 -using shell
Fedora 21 is released, you can upgrade fedora 20 to 21 using shell OR download media for fresh installations. To upgrade using shell, you need to run following commands. sudo yum update -y sudo rpm...
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MediaWiki OpenLdap Auth
Following configuration will help you to make mediawiki users authenticate from existing openldap setup. Here following openldap properties is used. base dn='dc=linuxreaders,dc=com' user...
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