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How to change the Apache HTTP port number

On August 3, 2012

The default apache HTTP Listen port number is 80. If you want to change this port, you need to edit the httpd.conf file. If you have installed apache http server from source code, then the default installation path is /usr /local/apache2 or if you have installed it  using repository then the apache configuration file httpd.conf is [...]

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How to check the Video and Audio File properties – Media Information

On July 29, 2012

To know information about audio and video file, we just check its properties. But those properties information does not display all the information. It will display only certain information such as date of creation, date of modification, format, file name, file size etc., If you want to know more information like video codec, audio codec, [...]

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How to change the time zone, time and date using commands in linux

On April 18, 2012

Question : How to change my system timezone from the command line without using redhat-config-date and how to adjust the time and date ? This answer is especially for RPM based distribution ( Redhat, Fedora, CentOS ). To change or update the time zone in linux, we need to edit the /etc/sysconfig/clock file. Before that you have [...]

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How to install VLC on Fedora Linux

On December 16, 2011

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. Its available for Unix, Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. In this article i ll explain you how to add the VLC repository and how to install it on [...]

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Fedora 16 “Verne” released and ready to download now

On November 13, 2011

Fedora 16 Codenamed as “Verne” is released on this november 8 2011 and it brings you a lot of features in Virtualisation, USB Network Redirection, and Cloud Computing.  Here are some of the newly upgraded features Ada developer tools – Tools and bindings for Ada developers. Aeolus Conductor – The Aeolus Conductor is a web [...]

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How to install Xen on CentOS

On November 6, 2011

Virtualisation plays a major role in  the cloud and other distributed environment. There are lot of virtualisation softwares are available. One of the most popular open source software is XEN and this tutorials explains about how to install xen on rpm based distributions. ( Works well on CentOS, Redhat Enterprise Linux , Fedora ). The [...]

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How to install and configure apache server from source

On October 23, 2011

Apache httpd has been the most popular web server on the Internet. It is avail for all platforms including Linux, Unix, Windows etc., . Installation and compilation of Apache Server from source is simple. Download the source from apache mirror. Download : #wget http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/apache//httpd/httpd-2.2.21.tar.gz Extract : # gzip -d httpd-2.2.21.tar.gz #tar xvf httpd-2.2.21.tar.gz Configure  : [...]

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How to Detect Hardware Information

On October 1, 2011

You’re looking a new systems, or installing Linux on a box that used to run a different operating systems and you’re wondering if all the components – Video, Modem, Ethernet, Sound will work on Linux. The vendors can’t, or won’t, tell you if their products will work on Linux distributions. You need to know what the [...]

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How to install and configure NFS Server

On September 4, 2011

Sharing resources is an important task in networks. There are numerous ways are used to share the files and directories over the network. In the Linux Operating system, Network File System Server enables the user to share their files and directories within the network environment. To install Network File System (NFS), your system must satisfy [...]

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How to install and configure SSH Server

On September 1, 2011

Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows users to open a window on a local computer and connect to a remote computer as if they were sitting there. SSH allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices. Installing and configuring SSH is very easy in linux os. Here i am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux [...]

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