Archive for the 'Fedora' Category

Configuring Postfix and dovecot POP3 and IMAP on Red Hat or Centos using local system accounts

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Postfix is one of the most widely deployed mail servers. In this tutorial, I will first show you how to configure Postfix for local system accounts and then I will describe how to configure Dovecot for POP and IMAP servers so remote users can retrieve their emails using email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird, Evolution or [...]

Manipulating, converting and editing audio and video

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

In this tutorial, we will see how to get information about audio or video file, convert from one audio or video format to another, capture audio or video from a device, capture screen and extracting audio or video from a multimedia file using ffmpeg.

Installing and configuring BIND9 DNS server

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

This video tutorial will show how to install and configure BIND9 DNS server on Red Hat 5, Centos 5 , Fedora or one of their derivatives. Checkout the text version of this tutorial. The tutorial was specifically written for Red Hat, Centos, Fedora and derivatives but it can be used for any Linux distributions.

Automating rsnapshot backups

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

In my earlier tutorial, I showed you how to do manual backup with rsnapshot. You should have completely followed that tutorial before continuing on with this one. In this how-to I will describe how to automate rsnapshot backups

Configuring Bind9 Domain name server on Centos or Red Hat

Monday, September 14th, 2009

In this tutorial I will show you how to set up simple but complete DNS system  on Red Hat or Centos. We, humans, are good at names while computers require IP numbers to communicate. To help us with that DNS comes to our rescue. BIND is open-source software that implements the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols for the Internet. The name BIND stands for “Berkeley Internet Name Domain”, because the software originated at the University of California at Berkeley.

Using ping for network troubleshooting

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Ping which stands for Packet INetrnet Gropper, is a great utility when it comes to troubleshooting network issues. It is part of iputils package. It sends ICMP “echo request” packets to the target system and listen for “echo response” replies. Ping records the round-trip time and records any packet loss. It prints a summary at [...]

Installing Grub boot loader

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Grub stands for GRand Unified Bootloader. When a PC starts, processor executes code stored in flash memory on the motherboard commonly known as BIOS (Basic Input Output System). Bios performs power-on self test (POST) which checks hardware. It then finds the device from which to boot the PC and loads its first sector into memory.

Resetting forgotten root password on Centos/Red Hat

Monday, September 7th, 2009

If you are desperate because you have forgotten root password, don’t be. This tutorial will show you how to reset root.

Linux command line calculator

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Some of the time, we are in need to do some quick calculations while on console or terminal. Here what bc, a command line calculator, comes in handy.

Editing and manipulating images from Linux command line

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Imagemagick includes a number of useful tools that allows us to manipulate, edit and get information about image files from command line First we have to install the package. In Debian/Ubuntu, do apt-get install imagemagick In Red Hat/Centos/Suse, we do