Alternatives to adobe flash player in ubuntu linux

Tamil — Sun, 26 May 2013 08:46:16 +0000

Abode Flash player is a common swf webplayer used by everyone nowadays. There are some alternatives swf players available in the ubuntu linux

1. Gnash
2. LightSpark

This simple guide explaining about how to install those applications in your ubuntu linux machine [...]

Easy method to install Adobe Flash player in ubuntu linux

Tamil — Sat, 25 May 2013 19:05:28 +0000

This quick guide explains you how to install Adobe flash player in ubuntu linux, especially for ubuntu 12.04, 1210, 13.04 versions. Ubuntu does not ship it by default. We need to install it using the “ubuntu-restricted-extras” repository.

Open “Ubuntu Software Center”

Search “ubuntu-restricted-extras”

Now Install the repository and it will enable all the [...]

Nagios : make[2]: * [check_http.o] Error 1 make[1]: * [all-recursive]

Tamil — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:03:22 +0000

Few days back, I was trying to configure Nagios NRPE clients with Nagios Server in my linux box. During the compilation time I had experience some errors and took more time to resolve.

make[2]: *** [check_http.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/plugins’
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.16′

Easy method to install Skype in CentOS 6.3, RHEL – 6.3

Tamil — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:36:19 +0000

This is the easy method I usually follow to install Skype in CentOS, RHEL linux. Hope this will be useful to you! Installing Skype in CentOS and RHEL requires more dependencies and it’s not possible to install all the dependencies manually. So the better option is setup a repo for Skype or install a repository [...]

Easy method to recover linux root password

Tamil — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:21:57 +0000

Did you forget your linux root password ? Don’t worry! you can reset it in simple methods.

This is the easy and simple method I usually follow to recover my root user password in linux when I forget the password.

1. Save and close all your applications if you have opened already.

Easy method to install KDE in ubuntu 12.04

Tamil — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:11:22 +0000

K Desktop Environment (KDE) is especially designed for desktop users. It provides an user friendly environment to the desktop users and it’s a free desktop environment for Unix like operating system. KDE provides 3D interfaces, custom widgets for your desktop screen, custom panels etc.,

This guide explains you how to install KDE in ubuntu 12.04

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How to disable selinux

Tamil — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:23:22 +0000

Open the selinux configuration file.

[root@localhost ~]# vim /etc/selinux/config

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing – SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive – SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled – SELinux [...]

Change selinux to permissive

Tamil — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:12:36 +0000

To change selinux policy to permissive. This guide is applicable to CentOS, Redhat, Fedora linux.

Open the selinux configuration file

vim /etc/selinux/config

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing – SELinux security policy is enforced.
[...]

How to check selinux status

Tamil — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:51:38 +0000

Selinux is a security tool which provides additional security to linux. This guide applicable to CentOS, Redhat, Fedora Linux.

To check the selinux

[root@localhost ~]# sestatus
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /selinux
Current mode: permissive
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy version: 24
Policy from config file: targeted [...]

Get website details

Tamil — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:53:34 +0000

Question : How to get the website details in terminal ?

Solution : “whois” command allows you to get the website details.

whois searches for an object in a RFC 3912 database. This version of the whois client tries to guess the right server to ask for the specified object. If no guess can [...]

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