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How To Allow and Deny SSH Access To Specific Users

From recent SSH post entry of restricing SSH access to specific IP address and computer hosts, we now move on to restrict SSH port and SSH connection to specific or particular users. As a requirement, an existing SSH server should be currently installed and running. If not, simpl install openssh server rpm package and start [...]

How To Enable IP Forwarding in Linux

By installation default, Linux distribution such as Redhat, CentOS, White OS, and Fedora comes with IP Forwarding disabled. The reason for this is that default linux installation, whether desktop or server, does not consider a default OS installation of forwarding IP packets and request by default, as the linux OS is not fully aware of [...]

How To Mount Remote Folder Location Via SSHFS

File transfers between hosts can be secured by using SSH protocol. Transferring files from current to remote location can easily be done from terminal using the scp linux command. However, it would be more convenient to have those remote folders and files be mounted locally from our own drive and access them locally using a [...]

How To Install VirtualBox on Fedora 9

VirtualBox has been recently bought by Sun Inc, the maker of Sun’s Java. VirtualBox had proven to do their job when it comes to operating system virtualization. Virtualization using Virtualbox had come to a long way, which enabled every virtual users and system admins to further evaluate different virtual machines to perform its task without [...]

How To Install PHP5 and Apache HTTP Server

Apache HTTP server is responsible for most web servers around the world. It empowers most longest running web servers around the WWW. While PHP5 is web development tool you could use to run along with Apache web servers. Here’s a quick and easy way to install Apache and PHP5 on your Fedora boxes. To install [...]

How To Install Fedora 9 From The Internet

Fedora 9 Linux OS can be installed from many variety of ways. There are a lot of Fedora ISOs you can download depending on your system architecture and resources. One of which is that Fedora 9 can be installed via the internet. Here’s how to install Fedora 9 from the internet. Fedora 9 Installation via [...]

How To Kill Application Process ID (PID) The Faster Way

At times, we need to kill an application immediately for some reasons. Sending a termination signal to a process rehups and kills a process ID (PID). This can easily be done in several ways. Here are many alternatives way on killing PIDs. Kill A Process ID Traditionally, with X installed, one can install a taskbar [...]

How To Install TuxPuck Reflexive Mouse Game

Most PC games that are available today require user skills to be analytical, logical and skillful attacking the opponent in many various ways using a wide array of keyboard key combination commands. Here’s a very simple, easy, reflexive and addicting linux game that you can install into your PC desktop to atleast kill time while [...]

How To Monitor Linux System Latency

Latency monitoring can also be done in linux specially in Fedora. Latency is a big part of monitoring ethics as the latency is always being checked, not only between two hosts but also from inside the server itself. Here’s a quick post on how to monitor system latency from your linux box. What is LatencyTop? [...]

How To Monitor and Measure HTTP Latency

The highest part of linux system administration tasks are making use of widely available linux and free open source software be fully part of sysad job accomplishment and functions, with the use of linux resources around. Here’s a quick entry on how to monitor and measure HTTP or website latency. Introducing HTTP_PING In a simple [...]

How To Download MetaCafe/Google Video/YouTube Videos From Terminal

Recently, we have covered downloading of youtube videos from command line terminal here using youtube downloader called youtube-dl . Now, here’s an alternative that download’s video from many video websites like Google Video, Metacafe, Sevenload including YouTube and saved it as MP4 video file. Introducing Clive Video Downloader Clive is a linux video extraction terminal [...]

How To Edit and Re-Encode Video Files via Linux X

With recent post of converting a video file format to another video format using ffmpeg via terminal, here’s another post on alternative means of video re-encoding with a highlight feature of video editing via linux X. Introducing Avidemux Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. Avidemux supports many [...]

Three Steps To Have Perfect Fedora 9 Desktop Experience Part 2

After following a recent post of a perfect fedora 9 desktop, which automatically installs most requested fedora desktop softwares, you can install another and more fedora applications easily by referring to another automatic fedora installer called Easylife, as an alternative automatic installer for fedora desktop systems. Easylife covers a lot of rpm package and features [...]

How To Monitor and Be Informed of IP Address Changes From Your Network

An IT client enters your company, your boss ordered you to provide a browsing local IP address for that client’s laptop for one week. Your boss gave emphasis to also monitor his IP address changes if any and let him be informed immediately for such IP address changes. But you don’t have access to your [...]

How To Install Adobe Flash Player 10 into Firefox 3 under Fedora 9

The latest release for Adobe Flash Player reaches version 10, code-named Astro. As seen from Adobe’s site Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named “Astro,” introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences.  These new capabilities also empower the community to extend [...]