Jan 19, 2009 | General, linux, QuickFix, Technical
To quickly search the package of a file which is found in system directories you can use the following command. dpkg -S Or you can also also install a small application called apt-file and search the package to which your file belongs to as follows: apt-file...
Jan 14, 2009 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
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)...
Jan 14, 2009 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical
Let’s try setting up a server at home using existing broadband connection. This requires access to DSL modem provided. In this example, I’m using ZyXEL (MROTECK) DSL modem provided by Airtel. First, access the DSL modem control panel. It’s accessible...
Jan 13, 2009 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
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...
Jan 12, 2009 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
If you’re using cPanel 11.24+ you might find that the files under /etc/vmail folder vanishes at times. Horde and other webmail authentication issues are caused due to this bug. This folder content is required even for email account verification. I wrote a small...
Jan 9, 2009 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical
The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter that uses ffmpeg to convert between popular desktop formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis Audio (ogg), Wave Audio (wav), MPEG video, AVI, Windows Media Video (wmv), Flash Video (flv) and...
Jan 7, 2009 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
The basis of using ssh without typing your password is public key based authentication. You need to generate a pair of public/private keys for this. 1. Firstly, generate your public/private keys using ssh-keygen #ssh-keygen -t rsa You must use the -t option to specify...
Dec 31, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
Some of us find it easy to work as root access instead of sudo. To permanently enable root access to your Debian/Gnome desktops edit the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file. In [seurity] section Allow root by setting the value to True. Once you’re done with it, you need to...
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