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For our software development we use Subversion – a powerful free tool for version control of files. Any file types are supported, even binary files. To be able to work with Subversion you have to setup a Subversion server. Then you can access the server from Subversion clients. This blog entry shows one way to [...]

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eBox eBox is a web framework used to manage server application configuration. The modular design of eBox allows you to pick and choose which services you want to configure using eBox. Installation The different eBox modules are split into different packages, allowing you to only install those necessary. One way to view the available packages [...]

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vTiger is an open source Customer Relationship Management software with somewhat better features than SugarCRM. CRM is highly effective to automate the sales workforce and have better accountability on individual’s performance. Apart from sales and marketing modules, it also has features to generate Invoices, Purchase orders, sales orders, maintain inventory, etc. Installation of vTiger is [...]

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OCS is an open source inventory management software to provide detailed statistics on hardware and software usage in any network. Official website for OCS is http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org. To install the OCS Inventory NG, we need to visit the download section from the OCS website. At the time of writing this document, version 1.3.2 is available. Download [...]

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Article suggests the step-by-step procedure to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), the latest version of Ubuntu as on date of writing this article. Similar procedure should work on other Ubuntu versions. VirtualBox is a virtualization software using which we would install other operating systems as guest operating systems on the top of host [...]

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Nagios is a popular network monitoring application that helps an administrator to detect the faults in network components. It can also send e-notifications on detection of any fault or outage. Nagios includes following features: 1. Service monitoring (like http, ftp, smtp, dns, ping, etc) 2. Resource monitoring on hosts (like CPU, RAM, HDD, etc.) 3. [...]

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Squid is the most popular proxy server in the industry. Along with caching capabilities, squid includes access control lists (ACLs) to restrict users from accessing various internet resources. Although, IP address and MAC based ACLs are possible to configure in Squid. But its difficult to manage ACLs in DHCP environment because IP address keeps on [...]

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Samba can easily be integrated with most popular open source antivirus i.e. ClamAV. Below mentioned steps can do the job for you. Note that below steps were performed on CentOS 5 64 bit OS with samba version samba-3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4. Few changes might be required in other versions. Install Samba server using below command, if not already [...]

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Instead of entering passwords at SSH login prompt, administrators can login to remote Linux servers using public/private key pair. It can help administrators in following ways: Running commands on multiple server from a single console Automated server backups using scripts No need to remember passwords for multiple servers Due to limitations in SSH protocol version [...]

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It has been quite a while since we have been operating from our Sector-6, Noida based office. Good thing about this office was that it is almost on Noida-Delhi border and saves lot of travel time for visits outside of Noida. We recently moved into training domain and became Redhat authorized training partner to provide [...]

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