Author: Babar Zahoor

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How to install CACTI ON CentOS / Red Hat / Fedora Linux

CACTI INSTALLATION ON CENTOS Install the required packages on your server machines, to install these packages you need to login as root  # yum install mysql-server mysql php-mysql php-pear php-common php-gd php-devel php php-mbstring php-cli php-snmp php-pear-Net-SMTP php-mysql httpd

City of Munich saved millions of EUROs with the help of Ubuntu and Open Source

City of Munich saved millions of EUROs by choosing Open Source as Official Standard Operating environment for their working computers. It was not easy to move towards Open Source Technologies, Ubuntu and Open Source helped City of Munich to make Linux and open source workable for them and to save millions of EUROs.

How to recover RPMDB in RHEL / CentOS / Fedora

You can see below is the error while updating RHEL/CentOS/Fedora using yum update [root@babar rpm]# yum update rpmdb: Thread/process 8367/457660786 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db4 error(-41638) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 – (-30575) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm CRITICAL:yum.main:…
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How to configure APACHE server with Self Signed Certificate on CentOS/ Red Hat Linux / Fedora

We need to follow below steps to configure APACHE with Self Signed certificate

SQUID Proxy Server Integration with Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory server for User Authentication on RHEL / CENTOS 6.x

Software used: Windows Server 2008 SP2 32-bit CentOS 6.5 (Final)  i386 samba 3.5.10-114 samba-winbind 3.5.10-114 krb5-server 1.9-22 krb5-workstation 1.9-22 ntp 4.2.4p8-2

APACHE OPENSSL CERTIFICATE, PHP MYSQL, HTACCESS WEB DIRECTORY with SQUID WITHOUT SSL AND with SSL SETUP

APACHE+OPENSSL+CERTIFICATE+PHP+MYSQL+HTACCESS WEB DIRECTORY SQUID WITHOUT SSL AND SSL SETUP vi /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=reverseproxy.node01 :wq!

Openfiler 2.99.1 Single node Installation by Ahmad Adnan

Openfiler 2.99.1 Single node Installation with RAID iSCSI and Physical Volume Step by Step with Screenshots Compiled by: Ahmad Adnan Dated: June 14, 2014 OS:         Openfiler ESA, version 2.99.1 RAM:     512 HDD:      8GB

Oracle VM Virtual Box: Virual Machine Copying UUID Error

Problem: When trying to add two VirtualBox virtual machines which have been originally copied (via simple file copy) from the same source, on adding the second one get the message: Failed to open virtual machine […] Trying to open a VM config […] which has the same UUID as an existing virtual machine.

3 Nodes DRBD 8.3 Highly Available Cluster on CentOS / Fedora / RHEL Setup by Ahmad Adnan

3 Nodes DRBD 8.3 Setup by Ahmad Adnan Three-way replication via DRBD stacking. Complied by: Ahmad Adnan

Installation of Oracle Java 1.6.0_45 on CentOS /RHEL 6.x

Download jdk-6u45-linux-x64-rpm.bin  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javasebusiness/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase6-419409.html [root@terracotta-02 downlaod]# ./jdk-6u45-linux-x64-rpm.bin