How To Create Linux LVM In 3 Minutes

What’s LVM? Why using Linux Logical Volume Manager or LVM?These questions are not the scope here. But in brief, the most attractive feature of Logical Volume Manager is to make disk management easier in Linux! Basically, LVM allows users to dynamically extend or shrink Linux “partition” or file system in online mode! The LVM can resize volume...
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Snmpd filling up /var/log/messages

Update May 2009: This post has generated lots of alternative ideas in the comments so make sure you read through them to see what might work for your server. At work we have a central monitoring system for servers called Solarwinds Orion Network Manager, this uses standard snmp connections to servers to get their status, disk usage, CPU performance. On my...
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How To Look Like A UNIX Guru

UNIX is an extremely popular platform for deploying server software partly because of its security and stability, but also because it has a rich set of command line and scripting tools. Programmers use these tools for manipulating the file system, processing log files, and generally automating as much as possible. If you want to be a serious server developer, you will need to have a certain facility...
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Apache 2 with SSL/TLS: Part 3

Introducing part three This article concludes our three part series dedicated to configuring Apache 2.0 with SSL/TLS support -- for maximum security and optimal performance of SSL based e-commerce transactions. Part one introduced key aspects of SSL/TLS and then showed how to compile, install and configure Apache 2.0. The second part discussed the configuration...
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Apache 2 with SSL/TLS: Part 2

In the first article of this three part series, the reader was shown how to install, configure, and troubleshoot Apache 2.0 with SSL/TLS support. Part two now discusses the recommended settings for the mod_ssl module that lets us achieve maximum security and optimal performance. The reader will also see how to create a local Certification Authority and a SSL...
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