How many times have you installed a LAMP server only to find Apache doesn’t seem to want to run right? Or you install a new module only to see Apache try to download pages as file, instead of displaying them on screen?
There are a hundred and one thousand things that can go wrong with any [...]

Tags: apache, apache log, apache2, apache2ctl, log files, php
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development

Mandriva is another one of the Linux distributions that has been around for quite some time. Beginning as Mandrake Linux, the company MandrakeSoft was forced to change its name when sued by the Hearst Corporation because of the claims that Mandrake Linux was inspired by their comic character “Mandrake the Magician”. So the change in [...]

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If you are looking for an easy to install, configure, and use systems monitor, look no further. The Munin is a network/systems monitor that presents all its data is easy to read graphs. Munin is setup as a server/client (or node) which makes this system very flexible. Munin also offers an extensive plugins library that [...]

Tags: Network Monitoring, system monitoring, ubuntu, web monitoring
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There are plenty of times when you may want to add a new service to start when your Linux machine boots. Or you may want to stop a service from starting upon boot. And, like nearly every aspect of Linux, there are many ways to deal with this scenario. And different distributions handle this in [...]

Tags: boot services, init, linux boot, rc.local, runlevels, sysV
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I have written a few articles on Samba here on Ghacks. And most people know how to connect to Samba shares via Windows. Generally speaking (when all is set up correctly) it’s just a matter of opening up Explorer and entering \\ADDRESS_OF_SAMBA_SERVER\SHARENAME to get to your Samba shares. But what about in Linux? How do [...]

Tags: GNOME, samba, samba shares, smb.conf, smbclient
Categories: Advice, Linux, Server, Tutorials Advanced, Windows, software

CentOS has not received much attention here on Ghacks, so I thought I would remedy that by introducing this outstanding flavor of Linux not by way of a Live CD (CentOS does have a Live CD, but you can not install from that CD), but by way of traditional means. Because of this you will [...]

Tags: CentOS, enterprise linux, KDE, Red Hat Linux, RHEL
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If you are one of those that depends upon a scanner for your daily work, and you want to handle this task using the Linux operating system, you are in luck. In the past, Linux has had some serious issues with scanning tools. When USB scanners replaced the old parallel port scanners it seemed nothing [...]

Tags: Espon, flatbed scanners, linux scanning, scanning, usb scanners
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