Swap space can be a dedicated swap partition , a swap file or a combination of swap partitions and swap files. In this article, we will learn to find swap partition or swap file in the Linux Operating System. Methods to find the swap partition / file The given below are the mostly used methods…
In this post, learn how to convert video file into gif file through command line in linux. For converting the video file into gif file there are many methods. We tried most of the methods. We used some software package like mplayer and image-magick. Image-magick has one issue that is related to memory allocation. With…
ISO file is known for archive file of optical disc like CD/DVD . ISO name has been taken from ISO 9660.The .iso file extention is mostly used for disc images. In Linux you can also create .iso image of directory.The method will help to take archive of desired directory in filesystem. It has one more…
Learn tar command and know about its precaution Tar(Tap Archive) command is used in Unix like operating system for archiving the files. Archive is a file which has number of files and these files can be extracted to its original format with the help of extraction programmes. These archived files are called tarballs. If you…
create noreply email id in Virtual Domain and Users postfix mail server in postfixadmin’s mysql database I always prefer to go with Postfix mail server with mysql and dovecot. For postfix mysql as backend I generally use the postfixadmin. Postfixadmin is easy to configure whereas through web interface or command line you can manage the…
configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables This kind of error generally comes when you are installing the package from source code. The source code have many C or C++ files which require C compiler. To solve this issue in CentOS and Red Hat ,run the below given command. Here we are using wildcard *…
NOTICE: nagios.cmd file not found. Please specify the location of this file in your /etc/vshell.conf file This is continue of my last post on how to change nagios frontend with vshell Nagios version : 3.x While configuring the vshell it might be possible you can get this warning message.The warning message occur when you run…
In this post, we will create a custom Nagios NRPE plugin to monitor openerp service. We have named it as check_openerp and it is written in bash script.
Date command is not only use for setting and viewing the date and time of system but it can also be used to display current date and time running in some other country or can also display future date and time of other country. For this we must need the time zone information of the…
In this post we will learn about how to set date and time as well as how to get date and time information with date command.Note: If you want to set date and time of system you must be login with superuser or root. Date command is one of the useful command in linux. At…
check_memory unable to read output Nagios nrpe While setting up the nagios Monitoring system in my new network.I decided to use check_memory plugin. I downloaded the plugin from exchange.nagios.com Here below one is given link. check_mem_avail While working I got this error from check_memory plugin “NRPE : unable to read output” . After debugging I…
Change default editor of crontab in Ubuntu When you first time open the crontab with command crontab -e it will ask you to set the default editor. In this tutorial we will see how to set default editor of crontab as well as how to change it to other default editor. I usually work with…
how to deny root ssh access in linux server For security point of view we generally restrict root direct ssh access in server.But keep in mind you also must have user who can access the server other than root. So before doing this practical ,check if you have access to server with other user or…
send email after mysql backup through bash script in simple way In Facebook group one of the user asked this question “how to send email after mysql backup through bash script”. If you know bash scripting a bit it is just a one liner. It can be write in more advanced form but here I…
In this tutorial we will learn how to configure nginx with django project in Ubuntu. Here in this scenario I have already putted the Django Project code in /opt and before this I installed django from its source code. Actually in this scenario the code was developed in staging machine and I moved it to…