Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Why is my .htaccess not working in VPS?

Monday, January 25, 2010 2:04 1 Comment

If you have a VPS or Linux server running Apache the good old fashioned way without fancy control panels, you’ll quickly have to learn some Apache tweaks.
One of the main issues we commonly run into is a non-working .htaccess file.  Apache doesn’t come with .htaccess support automatically turned on.  You’ll have to turn it on [...]

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Eclipse error – Cannot connect to keystore

Friday, November 6, 2009 5:39 No Comments

I have recently started working on android SDK and it is the future I say. Android is here to stay for long.  I use eclipse for development and android sdk fits just fine with ADT plugin for Eclipse. But some of us must have faced a error that says “Cannot connect to keystore” while installing [...]

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Mounting CIFS network share in linux

Monday, April 13, 2009 1:19 No Comments

This is a simple sub-tutorial on mounting network shares in linux – not only fedora. These network shares can be mounted with SMB and CIFS but in this tutorial, I am talking about CIFS mounts. This, Common Internet File System (CIFS) is a proposed standard protocol that lets programs make requests for files and services [...]

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One fine morning, We migrated to Linux

Thursday, April 2, 2009 5:13 No Comments

I work as a project manager/Team Lead and also look after Systems and Networks. Looking after Systems and Networks is not my primary job there but I like to tickle with Networks and Systems.
Our system had been infested with lots of viruses and it is natural when we use Microsoft windows in almost all [...]

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Listing Users in Linux

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:28 No Comments

Have you ever tried to list all registered users in linux? I tried it today. I hit the terminal with users and it responded with few names. I noticed that this is much less number of people than that I have registered in the system. Oh! Where are the other users? I googled for a [...]

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chkconfig and my problem

Friday, March 13, 2009 2:58 No Comments

chkconfig is used to add service, activate and deactivate the services during boot. We can say that! . This is a handy tool to set up services to start during boot. This can relieve users from activating services manually.  Enough said about chkconfig!
Sometime ago I wanted to start openfire – A Collaborative software by [...]

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Deleting Folders with rm in linux

Friday, March 13, 2009 2:25 No Comments

A newbie in linux with some basic knowledge of linux commands usually get stuck deleting folders in linux terminal. I happen to be newbie and had to face problems when deleting folders in linux earlier. I use fedora.
Usually there are folders with many deep rooted sub folders which you might need to delete in one [...]

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