http://www.reviewlinux.com/Latest HowTos from ReviewLinux.Com.Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:18:55 GMTen-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssScript by Mike Perkswebmaster@reviewlinux.com (Mike Perks)webmaster@reviewlinux.com (Mike Perks)http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=13005This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Fedora 12) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and replica....Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:28:22 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=13005#13:28:22http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=13000This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing....Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:23:56 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=13000#13:23:56http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12988This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Fedora 12) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Fedora 12 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesys....Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:33:06 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12988#12:33:06http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12978This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Fedora 12) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage se....Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:47:49 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12978#12:47:49http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12970In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Lenny server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, e....Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:55:18 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12970#13:55:18http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12969This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Fedora 12. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable ....Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:38:53 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12969#13:38:53http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12967This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless Debian Lenny server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, ....Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:28:50 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12967#13:28:50http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12966Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer (or "packet sniffer") that can be used for network analysis, troubleshooting, software development, education, etc. This guide shows how to install and use it on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop to analyze the traffic o....Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:23:05 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12966#15:23:05http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12961AutoMySQLBackup is a shell script that lets you take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. It can back up multiple databases, compress the backups, back up remote databases, and email the logs. This tutorial expla....Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:13:10 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12961#11:13:10http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12957This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for hackers to sniff out passwords and data transferred between the master and slave). MySQL replication allows you to h....Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:22:59 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12957#13:22:59http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12947Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apac....Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:45:39 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12947#12:45:39http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12937Ksplice Uptrack is a subscription service that lets you apply 100% of the important kernel security updates released by your Linux vendor without rebooting. Ksplice Uptrack is freely available for the desktop versions of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and Ubuntu....Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:37:24 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12937#13:37:24http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12929Mary, the daughter of a friend is in college: her Windows XP laptop constantly reboots and, we suspect, has a bad hard drive. The system will boot a live CD (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Desktop), and data on the hard drive can be read. During boot, the ....Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:38:55 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12929#12:38:55http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12922This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless OpenSUSE 11.2 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, Vir....Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:50:29 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12922#02:50:29http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12917This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for hackers to sniff out passwords and data transferred between the master and slave). MySQL replication allows you to h....Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:28:39 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12917#01:28:39http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12910Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 12 s....Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:00:42 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12910#12:00:42http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12894This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on OpenSUSE 11.2. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache u....Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:37:17 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12894#12:37:17http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12888This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1 on a headless Ubuntu 9.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, Virtual....Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:03:43 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12888#13:03:43http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12883This tutorial shows how to set up a USB-over-IP server with OpenSUSE 11.2 as well as a USB-over-IP client (also running OpenSUSE 11.2). The USB/IP Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP network. To share USB devices betwe....Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:39:04 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12883#12:39:04http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12878This tutorial shows how to do data striping across four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 9.10) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 9.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered ....Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:11:02 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12878#13:11:02http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12875FreeNX is an open source implementation of NoMachine's NX Server. It is a bit more akin to Microsoft's RDP protocol than the usual VNC, so while keeping bandwidth to a minimum, it maintains good visual quality and responsiveness.Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:06:26 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12875#13:06:26http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12872module-assistant is a tool for building Debian kernel modules from source, without having to rebuild the whole kernel. It fetches module-source packages that have been prepared for the Debian distribution via apt and produces .deb packages. This tuto....Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:48:33 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12872#12:48:33http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12862This tutorial shows how to set up a USB-over-IP server with Debian Lenny as well as a USB-over-IP client (also running Debian Lenny). The USB/IP Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP network. To share USB devices between....Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:17:55 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12862#01:17:55http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12856This article explains how you can set up an SSL vhost under Apache2 on Ubuntu 9.10 and Debian Lenny so that you can access the vhost over HTTPS (port 443). SSL is short for Secure Sockets Layer and is a cryptographic protocol that provides security f....Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:26:23 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12856#13:26:23http://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12848This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 9.10) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and repli....Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:36:12 GMThttp://www.reviewlinux.com/?m=show&id=12848#12:36:12