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Can u guess who is this?
What is a Non-IT Guy in this Forum doing?

Anyways,
Thanks for the referral,

Keep in touch and i will try it too,

Redmine is a software project management tool which has Wiki, issue tracer, source code browser and other cool features built in. If you want to install Redmine with MySQL and Nginx on CentOS 6, follow these steps.

I always use EPEL repository with CentOS. EPEL provides additional RPM packages. We can use Nginx and some Ruby gem packages from EPEL.

Enable EPEL:

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

Install required packages:

yum install nginx mysql-server ruby rubygem-rack rubygem-rake ruby-mysql

Redmine requires a Ruby gem called i18n. I couldn't find the RPM for i18n gem. I had to install i18n gem using the gem installer.

gem install -v=0.4.2 i18n

Start MySQL server:

/etc/init.d/mysqld start

Use the MySQL secure installation program:

mysql_secure_installation

Connect to the MySQL server as root:

mysql -u root -p

Create a MySQL database and user for Redmine:
mysql> CREATE DATABASE redmine character set utf8;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON redmine.* TO 'redmine'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secret_password' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Amazon Simple Storage Service or Amazon S3 is a storage service with a web API. I use Amazon S3 to store backups of my blog and other sites. I made a simple python script to handle file uploads to S3.

In order to use Amazon S3, first create a bucket using your Amazon AWS account. As the name suggests, bucket is a container. You can create buckets using the AWS management console.

The script we're going to write will take two input parameters

1. Path to file, local
2. Target S3 path

Title: Learning Nagios 3.0
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Author: Wojciech Kocjan
ISBN-10: 1847195180
ISBN-13: 978-1847195180

Nagios is a powerful and popular network monitoring software. I contacted PackT and asked for a review copy of the book.

Read the full table of contents on the publisher's site.

The topic being system administration, I could read the book from cover to cover in three days.

Like many other technical books, introductory pages of Learning Nagios 3.0 sells you Nagios. The first chapter convinces you why you should use Nagios to make your life easier by setting up automated monitoring of your servers.

Nagios is a popular networking monitoring software. Nagios lets you monitor your IT infrastructure, be it servers, routers, switches or other devices. In this post, I will walk you through the steps of installing and configuring a basic setup of Nagios on CentOS.

At the end of the tutorial you will be have a working Nagios setup to monitor

• local disk space usage
• local system load
• an external website

Whenever there is a problem or recovery with any of the above, Nagios will alert you via email.

Unless you have a strong reason to compile Nagios yourself, you should use the binary packages available for your Linux distribution.

RPMForge provides packages that are not included in CentOS repositories. We will use the Nagios packages from RPMForge.

Enabling RPMForge repository

For 32 bit machines use these commands:

wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

For 64 bit machines use these commands:

wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

Installing And Configuring Nagios

We discussed how to install LAMP in one of our previous articles. Some of you may be wondering how to create databases, users and tables on your newly installed MySQL server. This blog post introduces the preliminary steps to work with your new LAMP server.

We are going to learn the following:

• Changing MySQL user password
• Creating databases
• Deleting databases
• Creating MySQL user accounts
• Deleting MySQL user accounts
• Connecting to the MySQL server from the command line

Apache HTTP server is capable of hosting multiple websites on the same server. The feature is popularly known as virtual host.

The term Virtual Host refers to the practice of running more than one web site (such as www.company1.com and www.company2.com) on a single machine. When you configure virtual hosts your web server runs many websites at any given instance. You don't need to edit Apache configuration file and restart Apache every time you switch to a different website.

Follow the instructions below to configure virtual hosts in Apache.

Many of us have suffered from failing package repository mirrors. Some are slow, some won't have updated content, etc. You might want to remove/blacklist a particular mirror in your yum configuration.

Before trying to remove a mirror, install the fastest mirror plugin.

yum install yum-fastestmirror -y

The fastest mirror plugin is capable of determining mirror speeds and cache it. If that works for you well and good.

So, you've got a tarball and want to know how to extract it, huh?

Some background info about tar : In the olden days, people primarily used tape devices to store and retrieve data. Tape drives still exist and folks use them to archive data. The name tar is derived from from tape archive. The name of the program that creates and extracts tar files also has the same name - tar. Tarball refers to the archive file. They usually have the extension filename.tar.gz.

Extracting tar files with extension .tar.gz: To extract a tar.gz file use the below command. Assuming you have a tarball by name archived-file.tar.gz:

tar -zxvf archived-file.tar.gz

• z - filter the archive through gzip. gzip aka GNU Zip is a program used to compress files. When you use -z option, gzip will be used in tandem with tar.
• x - extract files from an archive. Pretty self explanatory, huh?
• v - verbosely list files processed. The -v option prints information on the screen when the files are being extracted from the archive. If you do not use this option, tar still extracts files silently.
• f - use archive file. This option tells tar to extract from a file. The -f switch is required.

If you want to quickly learn how to install, remove or update software packages on Fedora or CentOS, here is the short and sweet guide. To use yum you will require an Internet connection and the root password of your system.

Yum stands for Yellow dog Updater, Modified. Yum is currently maintained as part of Duke University's Linux@DUKE project. Using yum you can easily install, remove or update the software packages on your RPM based system. Fedora, CentOS and many other GNU/Linux distributions are based on RPM.

Yum is a command line utility. You will need to open the terminal and become root to use yum. On Fedora 8, click Applications on the gnone-panel, select System Tools and click on Terminal from the drop down menu. On the terminal, ie command line, type

su -
Type the root password

Updating all software packages

The first thing I do after installing Fedora is update the system. Free and open source software projects are updated rapidly. To keep your system current you have to update packages installed on your computer from time to time. Fedora maintains many software repositories and their mirrors. Whenever software packages are developed or updated, they would be stored on these repositories. When you update your system using yum, you download the latest packages from these repositories and install them on your computer. To perform a full update of your system type the below command in the terminal:

yum update