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Rescuing system with Linux Rescue

On November 12, 2011 By

You are reading this article, most probably you faced trouble booting your Linux. Follow the steps below to fully chroot into your system as you booted regularly. Please note that we offer you to take a disk clone before doing anything in your boot configuration. To do so, you can use dd or dd_rescue to [...]

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If you want to show console output from a Serial device such as RS-232 interface, you need to make minor modifications in pfsense 2.0 distro.

Switch to shell by pressing 8 from the pfsense console menu and edit the file /boot/loader.conf by typing:

vi /boot/loader.conf

Add the below lines to the file after pressin “i” [...]

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In the beginning of the year 2011, we decided to apply IPv6 configuration to our data center (VeriTeknik) and requested our IPv6 block from RIPE. RIRs give out /32 blocks to LIRs at the first assignment.

The Preperation Steps Request your IPv6 Addresses from your RIR or LIR Add IPv6 Route [...]

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Using LINUX as a server?, if so please read below

Most of the Linux distros released as CD or DVD media for installing and if you install Linux with defualy options you get a nice user interface and a bunch of applications that you will never use in a server environment. Also default [...]

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Running /tmp partition makes great performance enhancements as soon as you store temprorary information, please be aware that you mustn’t store valuable data as a reboot will flush all the data inside.

/tmp & /var/tmp runs faster from RAM, to do so:

vi /etc/fstab Switch to Insert mode by pressing I [...]

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Using vi Editor

On April 27, 2011 By

Vi is the one of the mostly used editor in Linux via terminal. In most cases where Linux is used as a server operating system, admins use the terminal, where GUI uses more system resources & network bandwidth. Since Vi is used from the terminal, the lack of GUI force the user to learn function [...]

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How to update Linux with Yum

On April 26, 2011 By

Updating RedHat & CentOS with Yum

 

If you are using RedHat & its clones like CentOS or CloudLinux etc. you can use Yum or up2date to upgrade your current system.

Please note that is you have a RedHat Enterprise Linux Subscription we offer you to use the command up2date, to upgrade your server with [...]

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You can use du command to see the folder size in LINUX including subfolders.:

With du

du -h # including subfolders (-h means human readable format in MB, GB or TB)

If you want to exclude subfolders, type:

du -h –max-depth=1

 

If you want to know a specific folders size (easy to remember) type:

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Disabling IPv6 in Linux

On April 25, 2011 By

In default LINUX installation IPv6 is enabled. IPv6 might use system resources.

Run this command as root:

echo “alias net-pf-10 off” >> /etc/modprobe.conf echo “alias ipv6 off” >> /etc/modprobe.conf

You need to restart your server after this command.

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LINUX Version Info

To learn the architecture and kernel version info use the shell command below:

less /etc/redhat-release

The output will be like

CentOS release 5.6 (Final)

To learn the architecture & kernel version:

uname -a

you can use the command above, the last numbers marked as red below is your architecture:

Linux [...]

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