Question: How do I find out the DELL service tag and express code of a PowerEdge server that is running VMWare ESXi (or VMWare Server)? Answer: Depending on what you are running (i.e VMWare ESXi or VMWare Server), use one of the methods shown below to identify the DELL service tag. Method 1: Identify DELL [...]
November 2010
Monit is an open source utility that provides several system monitoring functionality that are extremely helpful to sysadmins. This article provides a jumpstart guide on monit installation and configuration. We also discuss a specific example related to processes monitoring. 1. Install monit On Fedora, openSUSE, Debian install monit as a package from the distribution repository. [...]
Earlier we discussed about Linux Directory Structure. This article is similar, but for Solaris. 1. / – Root Every single file and directory starts from the root directory. Only root user has write privilege under this directory. / is also the root account home directory. 2. /dev – Device files. Contains device files. These include [...]
These are the best portable GPS for your vehicle. All of these are text-to-speech supported, which will speak the street names and directions while you are driving, helping you to keep your eyes on the road. If you have an older model, holiday season is the best time to upgrade. Some of these have live [...]
vsftpd is lightweight, highly stable, secure, and fast FTP server for Linux environment. vsftpd powers lot of heavily used FTP service in the internet (including ftp.redhat.com). vsftpd also supports virtual ip, virtual users, bandwidth throttling, IPv6, encryption etc., This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to setup vsftpd on your server from source. 1. Download [...]
Question: I have a *.deb file that I like to install on Red Hat. Is it possible to convert a *.deb to *.rpm package (and vice versa)? Answer: You can use alien command to convert *.deb to *.rpm file. Also, if you have a *.rpm file that you want to install on a Debian or [...]
These are the best digital camcorders. All these are light weight, HD, and with image stabilization. Any one of these can be a great gift for your family members. Did we miss any of your favorite digital camcorders? Please leave a comment and let us know. 1. Flip UltraHD Video Camera If you have kids, [...]
Inside the /proc directory, you’ll see two types of content — numbered directories, and system information files. /proc is not a real file system, it is a virtual file system. For example, if you do ls -l /proc/stat, you’ll notice that it has a size of 0 bytes, but if you do “cat /proc/stat”, you’ll [...]