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Memcached is very fast caching system for MySQL. It uses libevent or epoll (Linux runtime) to scale to any number of open connections and uses non-blocking network I/O. Required Packages 1. memcached : High Performance, Distributed Memory Object Cache. 2. memcached-selinux : SELinux policy module supporting memcached. 3. perl-Cache-Memcached : Perl client for memcached. 4….

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS Linux Q. How do I enable EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repo and install the packages under RHEL / CentOS Linux? A. EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages that complement…

Retty (short for “remote tty”) makes TCP connections available as pseudo ttys. It allows you to use access servers with direct access to the modems (such as Cisco NAS) as ordinary dial-out modems for faxing, sending sms or visiting BBS’. It offers functionality similar to Cisco’s Dialout Utility, but on GNU/Linux instead of Windows. It…

I just has to post this. “MAKE’s yearly open source hardware guide is now online with over 125 projects in 19 categories. The creators of all of these projects have decided to publish completely all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings, and ‘board’ files to recreate the hardware. They also…

Hi, I have been playing with this option for many months to try and get code to display properly in the posts. I was using the code: ***code goes in here*** which was giving me the look seen in this post: I am now using the CodeColorer Word Press plugin which provides the following features:…

Here is a simple one liner to aid you in remembering certain tasks you need to complete. This command will create a popup on screen (tested using Debian based distros) as a reminder to complete the job assigned; echo “DISPLAY=$DISPLAY xmessage remember to reset account ips” | at 03:00 In the command (echo “DISPLAY=$DISPLAY xmessage…

How to Install Java and Apache Tomcat on a Centos 5 server; Question: How do I install Tomcat on Centos? Answer: In order to install Tomcat on Centos you first need to install Java. Both free and non-free packages are required for the installation. The non-free packages do not cost money however you must download…

How to recover data from a Damaged Drive or Filesystem From linuxers.org In this article I will tell you how to recover data from such media devices using ddrescue. According to the software’s man page – GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device to another to…

You might have heard a lot of people say that linux shell is very powerful. But have you ever tried to think why do they say that. What secrets do they know about it that you don’t? I bet most of you never think this way but if you want to know these so called…

How To: Upgrade CentOS Linux 5.3 to v5.4 How do I upgrade CentOS Linux from version 5.3 to latest version 5.4 over the Internet? CentOS Linux v5.4 has been released and available via mirrors for immediate update. The new version includes the kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) virtualization, next generation of developer features and tools including…