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Rename multiple files to another extension in Linux 2007-08-12 11:06:32 Let us say that you want to rename all of your “.php5″ files to “.php” files. You can use for loop. for old in *.php5; do cp $old `basename $old .php5`.php; done Thats all there is to it. Let us say you need to rename index.php5 to index.php. The way above snippet works is that it loops through current directory and finds all the files with extension “.php5″ and processes ‘one by one. In our index.php5 file example, it finds index.php5 file, does a cp index.php5 `basename index.php5 .php5`.php ...

Envy - ATI and NVIDIA drivers installation made easy 2007-08-07 07:47:04 “Envy” is an application for Ubuntu Linux and Debian written in Python and PyGTK. Envy Features detect the model of your graphic card (ATI and Nvidia cards are supported). However “Manual installation” is also available download the right version of the proprietary driver for your ATI or Nvidia card from ATI or Nvidia’s websites handle the dependencies (compilers, OpenGL, etc.) (according to your OS version and kernel) required to build the module install/uninstall the driver set up your xorg.conf (i.e. the configuration file of the Xserver) for you (according to your system specifications) restart the Xserver for you (if you wish so) (this feature is available only in the textual interface) Install Envy in Debian Etch You need to download envy latest version from here using the following command #wget http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/envy_0.9.4-0ubuntu4_all.deb Now you need to install envy_0.9.4-0ubuntu4_all.deb package using th ...

A SUCCESSFULL installation guide to VHCS2 on Debian Etch (4.0) 2007-07-30 08:54:53 I’ve read a lot of manuals, how-to’s etc. describing the process of setting a Debian webserver containing the great VHCS2 control panel system. I’ve tried them all, and all were failing for me on several critical points. So i tried to gathered all steps to this one-stop how-to. First of all, download your debian-etch iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r0-i386-netinst.iso (for i386 systems only, please visit http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/ for other distributions) and burn your iso to CD-ROM (you can use CDBurnerXP for free, http://www.cdburnerxp.se/). Startup your server with the CD inserted. When the boot-manager is shown, ENTER. The setup wizard for Debian Etch will start and guide you through the installation procedure of Debian. Important!: when asked at software selection choose Standard system only and hit continue when asked if the GRUB boot loader has to be installed, choose Yes Next we go on preparing our sy ...

Use Google Linux repositories in Debian 2007-07-26 06:00:04 Google’s Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories. First you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list file #vi /etc/apt/sources.list add the following line # Google software repository deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free Save and exit the file you must download the key and then use apt to install it and refresh your package indexes. Run these commands as root: #wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add - Now you need to update the source list using the following command #apt-get update Install google applications now you can see the following command to install google picasa #apt-get install picasa Tags: google earth debian, Google Linux repositories, Google Linux repositories in Debian, install Google software from Linux repositories in Debian, picasa ... Google

Monitoring Debian Servers Using Monit 2007-07-22 00:48:26 monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. Monit Features * Daemon mode - poll programs at a specified interval * Monitoring modes - active, passive or manual * Start, stop and restart of programs * Group and manage groups of programs * Process dependency definition * Logging to syslog or own logfile * Configuration - comprehensive controlfile * Runtime and TCP/IP port checking (tcp and udp) * SSL support for port checking * Unix domain socket checking * Process status and process timeout * Process cpu usage * Process memory usage * Process zombie check * Check the systems load average * Check a file or directory timestamp * Alert, stop or restart a process based on its characteristics * MD5 checksum for programs started and stopped by monit * Alert notification for program timeout, restart, checksum, stop resou ...

Enable Foreign Language Support For PDF 2007-07-17 05:49:31 XPDF is a suite of tools for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. These are sometimes referred to as ‘Acrobat’ files after the name of Adobe’s PDF software. To enable support for Foreign Languages including Chinese to view PDF Files you need to install the language support. Here are the instructions. The tools include xpdf, a PDF viewer (in the package xpdf-reader), and PDF converters (including to/from PostScript) (in the package xpdf-utils). To install the xpdf type; sudo apt-get install xpdf-%langugae% where %language% is the language you wish to install. The following languages are available; Arabic: xpdf-arabic.tar.gz (1058 bytes) Chinese/simplified: xpdf-chinese-simplified.tar.gz (835807 bytes) Chinese/traditional: xpdf-chinese-traditional.tar.gz (794568 bytes) Cyrillic: xpdf-cyrillic.tar.gz (1326 bytes) Greek: xpdf-greek.tar.gz (1164 bytes) Hebrew: xpdf-hebrew.tar.gz (1314 bytes) Japanese: xpdf-japanese.tar.gz (494624 bytes) Korean: xpdf-korean.tar.gz (470 ...

Gip - IP calculator for GNOME desktop environment 2007-07-15 08:23:09 Gip is an IP address calculator that integrates well with the GNOME desktop environment.Gip provides system administrators with tools for IP address based calculations. For example, an administrator who needs to find out which IP prefix length equals the IP netmask 255.255.240.0, just types in the mask and gets the prefix length presented. But many more advanced calculations can be made. Gip can convert an address range into a list of prefix lengths. It can also split subnets using a given IP netmask or IP prefix length. Many more calculations are possible. Install Gip in debian #apt-get install gip This will complete the installation If you want to open this application open terminal type the following command gip Once it opens you should see the following screen which is IPV4 Address Analyzer IPv4 Range Prefix Converter screen IPv4 Subnet Calculator Screen Tags: gip debian, ip calculator debian, IP calculator for GNOME debian, Networkgip debian, ip calculator debian, IP calcula ...

Load Applications Quicker in UBUNTU Using Preload 2007-07-09 07:43:23 Preload is an adaptive read-ahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times. It runs as a daemon in the background so it is unobtrusive to your desktop. To install Preload open up Terminal and type in; sudo apt-get install preload For example, if you run Firefox, GAIM, and OpenOffice everyday Preload will determine these are common applications and will keep the libraries in your RAM before you even load them up - this leads to a faster startup time. Preload is also adaptive enough to determine if you change your working habits as well. Preload does not need to be configured, it is adaptive and merely relies on a count of the number of times an application is launched to perform the preload. Do not confuse Preload with Prefetch which is still under development and is expected to be part of Gutsy Gibbon in Oc ...

Configure GMail in Evolution, Thunderbird or KMail 2007-07-02 07:38:48 Many of us would like to use our GMail accounts in Evolution, and to a lesser degree Thunderbird and KMail. Here is a step by step guide on how to configure Evolution, Thunderbird and KMail to access you GMail account. The first step is to log in to your GMail account and to click on Settings and click on the Forwarding and POP tab. Under POP Download select Enable POP for all mail and click Save Changes. Log out of GMail and go to your UBUNTU or Linux install. Evolution Start Evolution If you have not used Evolution before, or haven’t set up an account the New Account Wizard will launch. Click Forward. Type in your Full Name and your Gmail Email Address and click Forawrd. Select SMTP as the Server Type. The Server is smtp.gmail.com. Encryption is TLS, Authentication is Plain and fill in your full Gmail Email Address. Click Forward. Give your account a name, it does not have to be anything Logical. Click Forward. Select the current Time Zone and click Forward. ...

Ubuntu Studio Screenshots Tour 2007-06-18 02:06:12 Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavour of Ubuntu. It’s built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional.Ubuntu Studio is an unofficial derivative of the Ubuntu open source operating system, based on Ubuntu, which is explicitly geared to general multimedia production. This screenshots tour includes internet, multimedia,graphics,system applications,network application and other applications click on the image for complete Gallery. Ubuntu Studio Screenshots Tags: Other Linux, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Studio gallery, Ubuntu Studion ScreenshotsOther Linux, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Studio gallery, Ubuntu Studion Screenshots  ...

Import Thunderbird Email Into Evolution 2007-06-09 08:33:48 This Tutorial will explain how you can import mails from Thunderbird to Evolution. Changing email clients can be a risky task, as you usually want to keep your old email just in case you need to refer back to it. This can usually be easily done by using the Export function from the client you want to move from, and finally import to your new client using the Import function. Unfortunately, Thunderbird does not offer an export option yet. Because of that, importing your old mails to Evolution is not made that easy. But, luckily enough, Thunderbird uses a standard mail box format: mbox. mbox format is suported out of the box by Evolution through its import feature. We know that we can easily import mails from thunderbird, the only thing left, is to find out where those emails files are. The location can be found through the account properties page. In Thunderbird go to Edit—>Account Settings… and select the account you want to import the mails from, then select the sub-entry ...

Apache Log file analyzer Using Awstats in Debian 2007-06-04 02:50:36 AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers. Install awstats in Debian #apt-get install awstats This will complete the installation Configuring Awstats Now you need to Run the awstats configure script located at cd /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples/awstats_configure.pl to setup awstats for the domain you want to monitor. You need to repeat the configuration process for each domain you want to monitor. perl /usr/share/doc/ ...

Filesystem Encryption Tools for Linux 2007-05-25 03:05:12 Crypto filesystems keep your data safe – even if someone steals your computer.Linux offers a number of encrypted filesystem options – each with a different approach to the encryption problem.Encrypted filesystems may be overkill for family photos or your résumé, but they make sense for network-accessible servers that hold sensitive business documents, databases that contain credit-card information, offline backups, and laptops. Now we will see some of the Filesystem Encryption Tools for Linux • Loop-AES Fast and transparent file system and swap encryption package for linux. No source code changes to linux kernel. Works with 2.6, 2.4, 2.2 and 2.0 kernels.Loop devices are block devices that don’t store any data directly, but rather redirect all reads and writes to an underlying block device or file, possibly encrypting or decrypting data in the process Project Homepage :- http://sourceforge.net/projects/loop-aes/ Current Stable :- 3.2a • DM-Crypt Device-mapper is a new ...

Howto Change Default editor in Debian Etch 2007-05-21 01:10:31 By Default Debian Etch Provides the nano editor you need to follow this procedure.In this example i want to use vi editor as my default editor Administrators who wish to change the default editor for all users will have to update the alternatives system using: # update-alternatives --config editor Once you enter it opens available editor options from your server you should see similar to the following screen here i have selected option4 for vi editor If you are an user wishing to change the default editor can define the environment variable EDITOR by introducing the following lines in their own profiles EDITOR=vi export EDITOR alias editor=$EDITOR Tags: change default editor debian, change default editor debian linux, change default editor etchchange default editor debian, change default editor debian linux, change default editor etch ...

Howto Convert a .nrg (Nero) file to a .iso file in Debian 2007-05-17 04:36:34 If you want to convert .nrg file to .iso file you can use nrg2iso tool to create this. nrg2iso is a program that extracts ISO9660 data from Nero “.nrg” CD-ROM image files. Install nrg2iso in Debian #apt-get install nrg2iso Using nrg2iso Usage nrg2iso [nrg-file] [iso-file] Example nrg2iso image.nrg image.iso Now you can burn your iso with your preferred linux burning app. Tags: convert .nrg to .iso file, convert .nrg to .iso file debian, convert .nrg to .iso file linux, general, install nrg2iso debian, nrg2iso debian, using nrg2iso debianconvert .nrg to .iso file, convert .nrg to .iso file debian, convert .nrg to .iso file linux, general, install nrg2iso debian, nrg2iso debian, using nrg2iso debian ...