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- Monitor bandwidth with vnStat
- Vincent Danen helps you get started using the Linux tool vnStat to monitor your bandwidth usage. Keeping track of bandwidth usage is a good thing for a variety of reasons, particularly in situations where bandwidth accounting is required, such as paying for Internet services that are dependent...
- Tags: vnstat, linux, unix, vincent danen, open source, operating systems, monitor, linux tips newsletter, job, techrepublic inc., bandwidth, software
- Technical articles 2007-05-25
- Debug PHP applications with Xdebug and Komodo
- Learn to configure Xdebug and Komodo to work together and provide debugging for PHP applications on your server. Good developers use good tools and design when writing applications, and the same is true for Web-based applications written in PHP. Two tools that are very valuable for PHP...
- Tags: ide, php, xdebug, komodo, vincent danen, scripting languages, php application, server, linux tips newsletter, configuration, software/web development, web development
- Technical articles 2007-05-18
- Monitor remote systems with Nagios
- Vincent Danen introduces you to the potential of Nagios for monitoring your remote systems. Get to know this flexible and powerful tool. Nagios is a fantastic program that allows you to monitor remote systems for availability. Nagios, available from http://www.nagios.org/, is often provided by Linux vendors, so...
- Tags: nagios, vincent danen, open source, monitor, linux tips newsletter, administrator, pop3, configuration, definition, plug-in, host, hostgroup_name, check_command, linux, operating systems, software
- Technical articles 2007-05-11
- Provide secure file copying with RSSH and chroot
- Vincent Danen offers this tip on how to use restricted SSH and chroot to provide secure file copying to your filesystem. Using SSH is great for remote access, and using SCP or SFTP is better than using plain-old FTP. However, for the most part, if you grant SFTP...
- Tags: vincent danen, sftp, linux, open source, using ssh, scp, linux tips newsletter, techrepublic inc., file system, ssh, operating systems, software
- Technical articles 2007-05-07
- Keyboard shortcuts in bash and zsh
- Learn these timesaving keyboard shortcuts for working in the bash and zsh shells. The bash and zsh shells are very similar, with zsh being more of a "power-house" shell than bash. Key commands for both shells are similar and knowing these time-saving shortcuts can be a great...
- Tags: vincent danen, keyboard, keyboard shortcut, ctrl, current line, cursor, alt, shell, linux tips newsletter, word, cursor position, keyboards, linux, hardware, peripherals, operating systems, software
- Technical articles 2007-04-27
- Automount filesystems with flexible AutoFS tool
- Vincent Danen describes the AutoFS automounter and walks you through setup and configuration. In a previous tip, I looked at the Amd automounting daemon and how to use it to provide on-demand access to remote NFS shares. Amd is purely a user-space tool, available for Linux and...
- Tags: advanced micro devices inc., autofs, vincent danen, linux, unix, open source, operating systems, file system, tool, linux tips newsletter, directory, configuration file, software
- Technical articles 2007-04-20
- Protect PHP with Suhosin
- PHP is popular for scripting Web sites, but its built-in security is weak. Vincent Danen describes the Hardened-PHP project and the new Suhosin project, which offers additional PHP security configurations. PHP is arguably the most popular scripting language for Web sites. This popularity comes with a price, however,...
- Tags: php, vincent danen, suhosin, scripting languages, hardened-php project, linux tips newsletter, security, web site, extension, hardened-php, software/web development, web development
- Technical articles 2007-04-13
- Try this workaround for time-out issues in kernel 2.6.17 and higher
- Have you found that there are some Web sites that time out on you, and you're not sure why? It may be due to the TCP window scaling issue in Linux kernel 2.6.17 and higher. This tip gives you the background on the problem and a workaround. Because of...
- Tags: tcp, construction, linux, vincent danen, tcp/ip, networking, tcp packet, window, window size, router, kernel, linux tips newsletter, problem, operating systems, software
- Technical articles 2007-04-06
- Use lbdb to combine contact sources for easy address lookup
- Vincent Danen describes a handy little tool that makes it easy to search for addresses outside of your e-mail client. See what the Little Brother's Database lbdb can do for you. Address book storage varies by e-mail client; many keep contacts in their own storage format that makes...
- Tags: vincent danen, little brother, ldap, apple mac os x, linux, storage, operating systems, mutt, lookup, database, linux tips newsletter, techrepublic inc., e-mail client, address book, e-mail, databases, directory services, enterprise software, software, apple mac os, online communications, hardware, data management
- Technical articles 2007-04-02
- Connect to MySQL in OpenOffice.org
- Vincent Danen tells you how easy it is to connect to databases using OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org is one of the premier office suites available on Linux. It has a lot going for it: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. It also can connect you to any kind of...
- Tags: mysql, openoffice.org, jdbc driver, vincent danen, openoffice, databases, storage, java, open source, database, linux tips newsletter, odbc, data entry, office suites, software, enterprise software, data management, hardware
- Technical articles 2007-03-26
- Use Ajaxterm for remote administration tasks
- Ajaxterm offers a simple solution to those who want to run a terminal over the Web for performing remote administration tasks. Vincent Danen tells you how to get it and configure it for Apache. Remote administration usually requires access to a terminal on a remote system, but if...
- Tags: ssh, apache software foundation, vincent danen, open source, ajaxterm, remote administration, linux tips newsletter, remote administration task
- Technical articles 2007-03-16
- Set up Logical Volume Manager in Linux
- You can use the Logical Volume Manager LVM in Linux to create virtual drives, and when used with RAID, LVM provides redundancy. Vincent Danen's tip will show you how to create your first volume. Logical Volume Manager LVM, is a mechanism to create virtual drives out of physical...
- Tags: vincent danen, open source, linux, using lvm, linux tips newsletter, disk, volume, raid, unix, operating systems, software, storage, hardware
- Technical articles 2007-03-09
- Use WebDAV for remote personal storage
- If you want the convenience of having access to your files even when you're away from home, but you don't want to store them on someone else's server, here's a quick tip from Vincent Danen on how to use WebDAV for your remote personal storage. The popularity of off-site...
- Tags: webdav, vincent danen, open source, server, storage, linux tips newsletter, servers, hardware
- Technical articles 2007-03-05
- Use Amd to automount NFS shares
- If you need a program to automount remote filesystems, Vincent Danen has a recommendation for you: the BSD Amd suite. Read this tip to get started. Using networked filesystems is very commonplace, be it NFS or Samba. For most people with Linux networks, NFS is the more popular....
- Tags: network file system, advanced micro devices inc., linux, vincent danen, operating systems, unix, open source, linux tips newsletter, file system, software
- Technical articles 2007-02-26
- Mine /proc for system information
- In this tip, Vincent Danen shows you the virtual filesystem /proc for Linux. The script examples here demonstrate the wealth of system information that /proc puts at your fingertips. The /proc virtual filesystem is one of the most interesting virtual filesystems available on Linux. Here you can...
- Tags: linux, vincent danen, processors, linux tips newsletter, techrepublic inc., file system, information, system information, unix, operating systems, open source, software
- Technical articles 2007-02-16
- Using script to record terminal sessions
- In this Linux tip, Vincent Danen explains the usefulness of script to log transcripts of network changes. There are also a couple of things to look out for if you use it. Most sys admins know the importance of keeping an action log where various tasks, configuration changes,...
- Tags: linux, vincent danen, open source, linux tips newsletter, session, file, unix, operating systems, software
- Technical articles 2007-02-12
- OpenSSH login tricks
- Vincent Danen is a fan of OpenSSH for remote connections. Here, he shares some tricks for streamlining remote access to systems using SSH. OpenSSH is a fantastic tool with a great variety of options and tricks available if you're creative enough to figure them all out. For ...
- Tags: ssh, openssh, vincent danen, remote system, linux tips newsletter
- Technical articles 2007-02-02
- Use MySQL GUI tools remotely and securely
- Vincent Danen looks at MySQL GUI tools for database-driven Web applications. Here are his tips for getting the most of the GUI tools, even while connecting remotely, without compromising security. MySQL is a database that is synonymous with ease-of-use, and most database-driven Web applications use it as their...
- Tags: mysql, gui, databases, vincent danen, open source, tool, database, linux tips newsletter, enterprise software, software, data management
- Technical articles 2007-01-29
- Get started with the Eclipse IDE package
- Vincent Danen gives you a quick introduction to the Eclipse development package, a free download available with a selection of plugins. If you've ever looked for the one developer's tool that contains the proverbial "kitchen sink," look no further than Eclipse. Eclipse is more than an Integrated...
- Tags: ide, eclipse, vincent danen, java development tools, open source, plug-in, linux tips newsletter, innoopract site, development tools, software development, software/web development
- Technical articles 2007-01-22
- Monitor your server with Munin
- Vincent Danen tells you how to use Munin plugins to create graphs that offer a visual display of your servers' processes. Similar to MRTG, this tool will help you keep an eye on your servers. Similar to MRTG Multi Router Traffic Grapher, Munin can graph various parts of...
- Tags: vincent danen, munin, server, monitor, plug-in, linux tips newsletter, techrepublic inc., perl, servers, hardware
- Technical articles 2007-01-12
