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How To Selectively Archive and Backup MBox/IMAP Mails Using ArchiveMail
What is Archivemail? Archivemail is a tool written in Python for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes. Archivemail can move specific and/or group of mbox/imap email messages older than the specified number of days to a separate mbox format mailbox that is compressed with gzip, or optionally just delete old email or simply archive [...]
How to Change Linux RunLevels
Runlevels on linux OS presents major differences on how your linux box will boot up and behave. Runlevels on linux changes a variety of execution patterns on loading up INIT process, environment, kernel modules, applications and services when booting up a linux box. In Linux, runlevels are represented by /etc/inittab text file. The default runlevel [...]
How to Spell Check Files via Terminal
Here’s another useful command liner utility that can check and correct spelling of a file. How to check the spelling of a HTML file from terminal? How to check the spelling of a Latex file from terminal? How to check the spelling of a nroff/troff file from terminal? How to check spelling of a file [...]
How to Convert PDF to HTML/XML/PNG in Linux
Here’s a quick howto on converting PDF files into HTML file. PDFtoHTML linux tool converts PDF files into multiple file formats like HTML, XML, and PNG images. By default usage, the output is written to current working folder. PDFtoHTML linux tool is based on XPDF version 3.00. PDFtoHTML PDF converter tool is part of poppler-utils [...]
3 Easy Install Steps of Microsoft Fonts in Fedora 8
There are nice fonts included with the default Fedora 8 X installation. Some people love it, others want more. If you are fond of using Microsoft fonts, here’s a quick entry on how to have microsoft fonts installed from your Fedora 8 box. Three easy steps on how to install Microsoft Fonts in Fedora 8. [...]
How to Display a Tree of Linux Processes
Everybody knows the benefit of having an overall idea and infrastructure connectivity of your own local network by looking at our own network diagram. In linux world, being aware and knowing what processes are currently running at all times is one good practice of managing your linux box. This practice involves monitoring of your memory [...]
How to Install IfTop Bandwidth Monitoring Tool
Here’s another bandwidth monitoring tool from linux console. Iftop is another console-based bandwidth monitoring tool available from linux. Iftop offers more feature that can be quite useful on monitoring bandwidth from console terminal. When executed, this bandwidth monitoring tool displays source and destination hosts currently passing thru its current selected interface(s). Iftop can also display ports [...]
How to Install NetSpeed Traffic Monitoring Applet
Now, if you want to monitor your network interface from GNOME X, here’s another linux network interface usage and monitoring tool you can use and install. Netspeed is a little GNOME-applet that shows how much traffic is currently passing thru on your specified network devices. NetSpeed monitoring applet can show current network incoming and outgoing traffic from [...]
How to Install VnStat – Long-Term Traffic Monitoring via CLI
Another interface monitoring tool that logs and keeps track of past traffic usage and statistics is VnStat. VnStat is a console-based long-term traffic monitoring utility that makes use monitors traffic usage and details and stores them into flat database for future comparison and statistical purpose. VnStat does not require root access and privilege to do [...]
How to Install Bandwidth Shaper – Trickle on Fedora
Shaping bandwidth traffic has been a usual part of job function from any IT company infrastructure providing online services to the web. From small scale company to enterprise scale, bandwidth shaping needs to be implemented and applied properly and effectively. Here’s one lightweight linux traffic shaper that makes use of existing network traffic shaping that [...]
How to Enable PortMap on Fedora 8
Looking for portmap rpm package in Fedora 8? How to recover and install portmap on Fedora 7 and Fedora 8? Have you lost or uninstalled your portmap package on Fedora 7/8? Does your NFS service handing due to deactivated portmap service? Are you experiencing weird start up problems with your NFS? What is Portmap? Portmap [...]
How to Install VMWare Workstation on Fedora 8
Installing VMware Workstation software on Fedora 8 should not be a problem at all using Fedora rpm package installer. Considering an old postof installing VMWare on Fedora 7, I have encountered a strange installation issue and changes of installing VMWare workstations 6.02 on Fedora 8. Here’s how to install VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 on Fedora 8. Pre-Requirements First, check [...]
How to Install VMWare Server on Fedora 8
Desktop virtualization has been continuously capturing users and web services. More and more companies are creating virtual machines and appliances that can be of productive service to many web users around the globe. From recent post, here’s a quick howto install VMWare Server on Fedora 8. VMWare Server Pre-Requirements VMWare Server package needs to compile its [...]
