linux tutorial
Convert an older Ubuntu installation
To convert an older version (Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10), Feisty (7.04), Edgy (6.10) or Dapper (6.06)), follow these steps: Download this file on your desktop. Open a terminal window (Applications→Accessories→Terminal) and move to the Desktop directory:
# cd ~/Desktop
HowTo Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu 8
Torrent is a great way to transfer large files very quickly. However most torrent clients are gui based and have quite some impact on system resources (e.g. Azureus). rTorrent is a lightweight client running from the terminal. Being able to run it in a screen session (also upon boot) makes it ideal to also control [...]
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS)
This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I’ll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses.
Setting Up PHPlist (Open-Source Newsletter Manager)
This document describes how to set up PHPlist on Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. This howto should also work for other distributions with little modifications. Taken from the phplist page: “phplist is an open-source newsletter manager. phplist is free to download, install and use, and is easy to integrate with any website. phplist is downloaded [...]
Install A TeamSpeak Server On Ubuntu
This tutorial describes how to set up a TeamSpeak server on an Ubuntu Server system. Teamspeak has the ability to make more than one server by setting different ports for each server. The user that controls all these servers is called the SuperAdmin, he has the ability to make more servers and users with or [...]
Using Linux as a Router
Linux can be a terrific “poor man’s” router. It takes a little more startup configuration than a typical hardware router, but once it is going, very little will stop it, at least in our experience. We’ve been using the router setup detailed below in production for six months now (a few months more worth of [...]
setting up a qmail server
Dan Bernstein’s qmail package is a fast, secure and state of the art mail transfer agent (MTA). However, people often have problems setting it up for large systems with virtual domain handling, POP-boxes and forwarding via dialup connections. Here are my thoughts on this and how we’ve handled it at SpaceNet.
Postinstallation Validation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 creates a number of files when installation is complete. These files essentially document what happened. The basic installation log file, /root/install.log, lists the packages that Anaconda installed on your system. The boot information is stored in the /var/log/dmesg file. The commands used by Anaconda to install [...]
Installation Troubleshooting
There are actually many processes running and many parts to the installation. The system logs everything to an installation log file and separates related information between four of the five virtual console screens supported during the installation.
