Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

How to recover (and even rename) a broken LVM volume

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

I was looking for a way to rename a Logical Volume on a Linux system, and found the following website useful. Unfortunately my attempt to rename a LVM based Linux installation failed miserably, and it never booted. So, I'll have to retry it sometime later again.

How to change file & folder permissions recursively in Linux

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Often times it's necessary to change the permissions on many files & folders recursively - i.e. change the permisssions on every file & folder. Todo so, login to your Server via SSH, and run the following commands as root. [sourcecode language='bash'] find /home/username/public_html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find /home/username/public_html/ ...

List of useful Linux system management scripts

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I was looking for a way to properly monitor XEN VPS's traffic, when I found this site: http://wikicompany.org/fs//system_management.html#traffic_accounting It has a long list Linux system management scripts

How to secure and optimize a VPS

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I found an interesting post on a HyperVM forum, on how to Secure & Optimize a VPS - the link can be found here Although a lot of this is aimed at cPanel VPS's it can be used on any other VPS without a cPanel control panel as well. Please note, ...

Interesting Linux & Windows compatible chat program

Monday, September 15th, 2008

For quite some time I've used BorgChat for Windows networks, and it works very well as a local chat client between users on the LAN, without having to use extra internet bandwidth. Recently, however, I wanted to join a Linux desktop to the Borgchat network, but since Borgchat doesn't ...