Linux
Tutorials and tips on Linux system configuration and administration, and software for Linux systems.
MPlayer is a universal (nearly) movie/music player on Linux and many more systems. It’s also my favourite player and MPlayer plays movie or music files in any format that I ... read more »
mailx or mail command in Linux is still providing service for guys like me, especially when we need to send email automatically by script. gmail is great. Now, how to ... read more »
I usually keep Thunderbird open when my computer is open. But Thunderbird is minimized to the taskbar. It will be more convenient if it is minimized or closed to the ... read more »
ssh, scp, sftp and vnc are frequently used tools (both servers and clients) on Linux. We may want to remote control a Linux box from Windows such as when we make ... read more »
NFS is widely deployed and used even after more than twenty year. NFS is easy to set up and easy to use. This introduces how to set up the NFS ... read more »
Sharing the networking is important. Setting up a gateway is a good solution to it. Building up the gateway on a Linux box is easy and cost efficient, but reliable. ... read more »
This post compiles a list of tutorials on the Internet for Linux beginners. Linux beginners usually get headache from the “seemed” complexity of the Linux operation system. But once they ... read more »
This posts list benchmark (using bonnie++) result of I/O performance of Xen LVM and loopback backed VBDs.
The configuration of machines
Dom0
VCPU: 2 (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz)
Memory: 2GB
Xen and Linux ... read more »
We may need to flush DNS cache of our client when the site’s DNS has been changed.
Flush DNS Cache on Linux
1) Use su – to get root privilege or sudo ... read more »
How to create a Fedora live USB media is introduced in this post. We can boot to Fedora operating system environment through a live USB system in the USB flash ... read more »
I need to backup my Linux home directory to one of my portable hard disk. I tried to use git, but failed since git doesn’t support large file (I failed ... read more »
Vim is my favourite text editor and I also prefer to use Vim to compose Email. I ever used Vim as Thunderbird’s External editor with the help of plugin. I ... read more »
Git server throught SSH is easy and fast to set up, although every user will have accesses to all repositories in the git server and every user is administrator. This ... read more »
MAC stands for Media Access Control which is a six byte number, usually expressed as a twelve digit hexadecimal number. IPs in LAN are translated to MAC address by the ... read more »
Different Linux distros have different method to set the hostname. On Fedora Linux, it is quite simple.
Open the /etc/sysconfig/network file
# vim /etc/sysconfig/network
Find the line starting with
HOSTNAME=
Assign the hostname for this ... read more »
A method to send email notification to a list email addresses by the remote git server after every push from the client will be introduced.
After the client pushing to the ... read more »
How to create a LVM group from two hard disk partitions is introduced in this post.
Assume we have installed two hard disks /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc to the server, our task ... read more »
We introduced how to create a LVM group with two hard disk partitions, which the LVM group can be used for installing LVM backed Xen DomUs. The LVM volume can ... read more »
