How do I install the extra repositories such as Fedora EPEL repo on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server version 7.x or CentOS Linux server version 7.x? You can easily install various packages by configuring a CentOS 7 or RHEL 7 system to use Fedora EPEL repos and third party packages. Please note that these packages are not officially supported …
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In the first part we talked about find command basic usage. Now let us see how to use find command (a) To gain lots of useful information about users and their files (b) Monitor and enhance the security of system using find command Finding all set user id files setuid (“suid”) and setgid are access right flags that can be assigned to …
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CSF : It is the abbreviation of Config Server Security & Firewall. CSF is for configuring or managing your server firewall easily and simply. Here is some useful steps to Install , configure and uninstall csf on server with CentOS. Installation Process: SSH to your server and do the following steps as root user. Step 1: Downloading csf package. rm -fv …
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MongoDB is one of those technologies that you should be paying attention to because it’s changing the way that developers interact with databases. MongoDB is officially a “NoSQL” database. Thanks to its architecture and BSON structure, it can scale more easily than other popular database servers like MySQL. MongoDB helps you to integrate database information into your apps easier and faster. That’s …
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Is there any log entries to find-out directly the total number of connections in server? In some high connection high load servers, this log would be helpful to monitor and tune the server with number of connections on it. We can simply sort out the total number of connections in a port by using the command netstat. There isn’t any …
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mod_geoip is an API module released by MaxMind for Apache (or interchangeably, LiteSpeed) to quickly and easily obtain your website visitors’ geographical information. It offers high performance IP lookup especially when used together with PHP. See benchmark While instructions to install mod_geoip on Linux with Apache are easily available on the Internet, not much is written on how to install the module on WHM/cPanel servers. This tutorial will …
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Most hardcore command line users and unix geeks love vi, but I prefer nano. If you want to change your default crontab editor to nano, here’s how to do this: For a one time edit, launch the terminal and type: EDITOR=nano crontab -e If you want to set nano as your default editor in general, you use this command: export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano …
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