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Disk ARchive using dar and kdar(dar Frontend)

Mar 212007

Dar is a shell command that makes backup of a directory tree and files. Its features include splitting archives over several files, CDs, ZIPs, or floppies, compression, full or differential backups, strong encryption, proper saving and restoration of hard links and extended attributes, remote backup using pipes and external command (such as ssh), and rearrangement of the "slices" of an existing archive. It can now run commands between slices, encrypt archives, and quickly retrieve individual files from differential and full backups. Dar also has external GUI like kdar for Linux,thanks to the well documented API.

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Realtime Apache monitoring with apachetop

Webserver 1 Response »

Mar 192007

Apache top is a curses-based realtime utility to display information from a running copy of Apache.It is modelled after the standard ‘top' utility, and displays information such as the requests pers second, bytes per second and the most popular URLs displayed.It must be run from a machine running Apache, as it works by processing the logfiles found in /var/log/apache.

Special Characters made easier in Ubuntu

Other Linux 4 Responses »

Mar 172007

If you are using Ubuntu Dapper Drake, you could press CTRL+SHIFT and then the unicode for special characters so you didn't have to copy and paste them from the Character palette every time you wanted to use them.

Display system Information (Uptime,CPU,Memory,SCSI,IDE,PCI,Ethernet,Floppy,and Video) Using Phpsysinfo

Other Linux 1 Response »

Mar 152007

phpSysInfo is a customizable PHP script that parses various files in /proc and displays them. It will display information about system facts like Uptime, CPU, Memory, SCSI, IDE, PCI, Ethernet, Floppy, and Video. It now has full internationalization support along with customizable templates.

Network File System (NFS) Server and Client Configuration in Debian

General, Network 11 Responses »

Mar 122007

NFS was developed at a time when we weren't able to share our drives like we are able to today -- in the Windows environment. It offers the ability to share the hard disk space of a big server with many smaller clients. Again, this is a client/server environment. While this seems like a standard service to offer, it was not always like this. In the past, clients and servers were unable to share their disk space.

Private and Public IP Addresses Explained

Network 48 Responses »

Mar 112007

Public IP Addresses

What is Public IP address

Public IP Addresses (also known as Static IP Addresses) are IP addresses that are visible to the public.Because these ip addresses are public, they allow other people to know about and access your computer, like a Web server.In some cases, you do not want people to access your computer or you want to restrict certain individuals from accessing your computer or server.

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