Question: I installed VMWare ESXi 4.1 on a Dell Poweredge Server. I created a Virtual machine, and while installing Red Hat OS 6.1 64-bit, it gives the following error message. My server is a new Dell poweredge R710 server, which support 64-bit CPU. Why do I get this error message and How do I fix it?
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Using Apache Virtual Host, you can run several websites on the same server.
For example, I can run both thegeekstuff.com and top5freeware.com on a single physical server that has one Apache webserver running on it.
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Before we understand what is nginx, we should know how to pronounce nginx.
Its not N G I N X. nginx is pronounced as “Engine X”.
nginx is short form after you remove both the e’s from “Engine X”.
nginx is an open source web server that is similar to Apache, but very light weight. nginx is both web server and reverse proxy server.
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Question: I would like to automatically rotate the apache access_log and error_log files. Can you explain with an example on how to do this?
Answer: This can be achived using logrotate utility as explained below.
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Lazy sysadmin is the best sysadmin –Anonymous
System administrators job is not visible to other IT groups or end-users. Mostly they look at administrators and wonder why sysadmins don’t seem to have any work.
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This article provides a total of 24 examples on iostat, vmstat, and mpstat commands.
This article is part of our ongoing Linux performance monitoring series.
Please note that iostat and vmstat are part of the sar utility. You should install sysstat package as explained in our sar (sysstat) article to get iostat and vmstat working.
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Question: When I perform rsync, it asks for my password on the remote server before starting the transfer. I would like to avoid this, and perform rsync without password. Can you explain with an example on how to setup rsync over ssh without password on Linux?
Answer: The following steps explains how to setup rsync over ssh that doesn’t ask for a password. This is helpful when you are scheduling a cron job for automatic backup using rsync.
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