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The Five Distros That Changed Linux
Dec 17th
You can measure Linux’s history in many ways. We usually think of it in terms of releases. The Linux kernel got its start in September 1991 with version 0.01. The kernel turned 18 this fall with the release of 2.6.something-or-other. But, another way of looking at Linux is in terms of its important distributions.
Block an IP Address
Dec 15th
If you think you are being attacked by an IP Address, you could block it by either firewall like: (more…)
Deleting a dir symlink
Dec 11th
Good thing about shells is that they have so many features like tab-completion and bad thing is that these features can sometime turn against you. (more…)
Simulating Debian’s Apache Configuration Management on CentOS
Dec 11th
I am a big fan of how debian/debian-based distro maintain apache’s configuration and specially virtualhosts and mods. (more…)
Packages being kept back?
Dec 4th
Sooner or later when you upgrade your system you would see something like: The following packages have been kept back: empathy mplayer mysql-server mysql-server5.0 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
This doesn’t really impose a big problem if its your laptop. Why it happens? Well usually because the “newer” versions of those packages has unsatisfied dependencies or they need to remove something already install on your system, so they pass the ball to your court and decide whether to remove and upgrade or not. (more…)
Monitoring Apache with mod_status
Dec 3rd
I was put into a situation at office where i had to check if apache was crashing or not, hits on vhosts, and etc, so i enabled mod_status and went ahead with it. Here is an excerpt from an article that helped me getting started: (more…)
