February 4, 2010 · Server · 3 comments

This tutorial will explain some useful commands to manage apache2 sites and Modules
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January 31, 2010 · Networking, Server · 36 comments

This tutorial describes how you set up a computer as a dedicated VPN server for your network. With a VPN server you can open secure data tunnels and access files and deivces in your local network (eg. home or office) from remote locations, which is not only a pretty cool thing (accessing your media library from anywhere) but also very handy for system maintenance or customer support or if you want to work from home.

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January 20, 2010 · Server · 16 comments

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices.

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December 25, 2009 · Monitoring, Server · 6 comments


Logwatch is a modular log analyser that runs every night and mails you the results. It can also be run from command line.The output is by service and you can limit the output to one particular service. The subscripts which are responsible for the output, mostly convert the raw log lines in structured format.
Logwatch generally ignores the time component in the output, that means, you will know that the reported event was logged in the requested range of time, but you will have to go to the raw log files to get the exact details.

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December 18, 2009 · Server · 16 comments

We have already discussed how to install ubuntu 9.10 LAMP server .If you are a new user and not familiar with command prompt you can install GUI for your ubuntu LAMP server using one of  the 2 options
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