Linux Shtuff

From lifehacker.com We love Linux, and want to make it easier for others to do so, too. This first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Linux includes our favorite apps that get things done and make your desktop great. Linux isn’t quite like Windows or Mac, as there are many, many distributions, usually running on…

From derwiki.tumblr.com How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love SSH Before there were VPNs, there was ssh. And when you don’t have access to your VPN or can’t set one up, you can still get most of the functionality over ssh. Quick and dirty HTTP tunneling This is useful if you need to hit…

From lazyscripter.com Alright, here’s a post for the advanced Linux users that doesn’t have time to mess around. Have you ever wanted to track what accesses a file on your server? Using the auditd daemon, you can do just that. Is auditctl installed? [root@eclipse ] ~ # which auditctl /sbin/auditctl How to install auditctl If…

From phoronix.com With many Linux distributions receiving major updates in recent weeks and months we have carried out a five-way Linux distribution comparison of openSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, PCLinuxOS, and Arch Linux. We have quite a number of tests comparing the 32-bit performance of these popular Linux distributions on older PC hardware. Our test system was…

From gnuru.org If you want to use proper database features in mysql – the sort that Postgresql has as standard – you need to use the InnoDB storage engine rather than the default MyISAM. To see what sort of storage engine your tables are currently using do this in the mysql shell: SELECT TABLE_NAME, ENGINE…

From xrado.hopto.org Just as mysql has a slow log which is enable through the /etc/my.cnf, php slow logging can be enabled via the following info… A few days ago a friend called me, asking me how could he find the slowest PHP scripts on its server? ..and didn’t think of anything. Of course there are…

From linux-mag.com Quick and Dirty MySQL Performance Troubleshooting – What are the first things you should look at after learning of a sudden change in MySQL server performance? Sooner or later, you’re going to get that phone call (or email, SMS, instant message, tweet, or whatever): The database is slow! Fix ASAP! And you’ll be…

From petur.eu Howto download ISO files directly to a CD/DVD/BLU-RAY It is possible to download .iso files directly onto a cd\dvd\blu-ray disk. /dev/shm is a directory found on Debian & RedHat based distributions. (Please let me know if you find it on dists as well) /dev/shm is a dynamic RAM disk, meaning it’s size will…

What is the best way to generate a htpasswd? htpasswd is used to generate, store and update the file used for basic http authentication. To create a new password file from the command line; # htpasswd -c /home/user/.htpasswd username The previous command will generate a new file called .htpasswd in the users /home/user directory and…

Plesk Quick Reference… for those of us who hate Plesk. Update Plesk Version: /usr/local/psa/bin/autoinstaller Plesk user: (also the name of the init script) psa. Plesk Daemon: Is actually “sw-cp-server” and logs to /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log There is an issue with it on 9.0 and the CentOS openssl package. http://kb.parallels.com/8338 Mail: qmail. Maildirs are in /var/qmail/mailnames/ config is…