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cPanel 11.24 Enters STABLE!

From cPanel blog: Previous postings have discussed at greater length the benefits and enhancements introduced in 11.24.  Now, server administrators that prefer to use our STABLE build can experience all these important new optimizations and performance increases....

Force fsck on boot with /forcefsck

If you want to run fsck on the system for file system check during next reboot,its very simple. Nope, you need not boot your system in recovery mode or via live cd. All you need to do is this: login as root #su – Type the following command #touch /forcefsck c)...
Installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox

Installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox

Installing Windows 7 beta on to VirtualBox 2.1 running on my Ubuntu laptop. I was not expecting the installation to be so smooth. Will write more about my experience with Windows 7 soon. I can see windows fans prasing Windows 7 after such a PITA with Vista. If you...

Adding cdrom to yum as repo

If you want to be able to install the packages from DVD or CDROM available with you try the following instructions. First take the backup of /etc/yum.repos.d, remove those old repo files and add a new file called local.repo with the following lines: [local] name=Local...

NIS Authentication issue on Fedora 10

I tried adding an NIS client installed with Fedora 10 today and found that it was not able to authenticate the users via NIS. I found some hints on this link before I solved the problem. The issue as caused due to NetworkManager entires added into...