Just recently it was necessery to load up a tun kernel module on few CentOS Linux servers. I’m using Debian on daily basis, and everybody that had even little of experience with Debian should already be aware about the existence of the handy: /etc/modules file. On Debian to enable a certain kernel module to load [...]
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How to auto restart CentOS Linux server with software watchdog (softdog) to reduce server downtime
February 5th, 2012 
Frank BorosIf you are in charge of dozen of Linux servers these days and therefore required to restart many of the servers with a support ticket (because many of the Data Centers where the servers are co-located does not have a web interface or IPKVM connected to the server for that purpose). Therefore the server restart [...]
How to automatically reboot (restart) Debian GNU Lenny / Squeeze Linux on Kernel Panic
February 5th, 2012 Frank BorosIn this tutorial i will show you how to automatically reboot Debian Squeeze Linux on Kernel panic to avoid CPU overload or system crash. If you are a system administrator, you have probably wondered at least once how to configure your Linux server to automatically reboot itself if it crashes, is going through a mass [...]
How to disable Ipv6 on GNU / CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Redhat
February 2nd, 2012 Frank BorosIn this tutorial you will learn how to disable IPv6 on Debian and other linux distributions (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu). I have few servers, which have automatically enabled IPv6 protocols (IPv6 gets automatically enabled on Debian), as well as on most latest Linux distribituions nowdays. Incoming search terms:centos 6 disable ipv6 (54)disable ipv6 centos 6 [...]
How to clear Squid Proxy Cache on Debian and Ubuntu
February 2nd, 2012 Frank BorosIn this tutorial i will show how to clear squid proxy cache on Debian and Ubuntu Linux. It was necessery to clean up some squid cache for some proxy users on a Debian host. Until now I’ve used to run only custom build Squid server on Slackware Linux. Thus I was curious if Debian guys [...]
How to Split files on Linux FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
January 30th, 2012 Frank BorosDid you have the need to sometimes split an SQL extra large files to few pieces in order to be able to later upload it via phpmyadmin? Did you needed an extra large video or data file to be cut in few pieces in order to transfer it in few pieces over an USB stick? [...]
How to install the phpbb forum on Debian (Squeeze/Sid) Linux
January 30th, 2012 Frank BorosIn this tutorial you will learn how to install phpbb3 on Debian Linux phpBB forum is a free flat-forum bulletin board software solution that can be used to stay in touch with a group of people or can power your entire website. With an extensive database of user-created modifications and styles database containing hundreds of [...]
Installing LAMP Server on Debian Squeeze
January 29th, 2012 Frank BorosLAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is an open source Web development platform that uses Linux as operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the relational database management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language. In this quick tutorial we will explain you how to install LAMP SERVER on Debian Squeeze (For [...]
