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OpenLDAP – error: BDB/HDB: BerkeleyDB not available

piyushmap — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:08:22 PST

Today, I was installing “openldap-2.4.28.tgz” package and I got below error. [root@piyush openldap-2.4.28]# ./configure –with-tls=openssl configure: error: BDB/HDB: BerkeleyDB not available After reading installation doc of openldap and README file, found that Berkeley DB is required for slapd. SLAPD: BDB and HDB backends require Oracle Berkeley DB 4.4 – 4.8, or 5.0 – 5.1. It is highly recommended to apply [...]

Desktop Session Recorder

piyushmap — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:05:28 PDT

Istanbul is a desktop session recorder for the Free Desktop. You can easily make video by this software. It records your session into an Ogg Theora video file. To start the recording, you click on its icon in the notification area. To stop you click its icon again. It works on GNOME, KDE, XFCE and [...]

How to enable the APC extension in php

piyushmap — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:25:44 PDT

Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free, open source framework that optimizes PHP intermediate code and caches data and compiled code from the PHP bytecode compiler in shared memory. What this means is that APC reads your PHP files, parses them into a more efficient binary format and then caches them in memory so that [...]

Access Your MySQL Server Remotely Over SSH

piyushmap — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:49:59 PST

Hello Friends, Access Your MySQL Server Remotely Over SSH | SSH Tunnel Everybody wants to secure their server and also wants to access application from remotely. So if you have MYSQL server, But bydefault its only opened for local machine for the security reasons. And if you want to access your database server or database [...]

How to Setup Forward DNS

piyushmap — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:46:57 PST

Hello Friends, DNS Forwarding | Configure Local and Live DNS | Forward DNS | Local DNS Cache Setting up a DNS which should have my server’s forward entries. I have a live dns server for abc.com domain and running 500 subdomains (i.e. alive.abc.com, blive.abc.com etc..) through that servers. And secondly i have local dns server [...]

ip and port forwarding

piyushmap — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:44:42 PST

Hello Friends, IP Forwarding | Port Forwarding | Redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another Since 3 days i was in trouble, i want to redirect my all incoming request port 8080 (i.e.) to remote machine port 8080. I have set lots of iptables rules but none of those working on [...]

How to install Skype on Ubuntu

piyushmap — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 03:20:24 PST

Hello Friends, Skype is proprietary software that allows you to make calls over the Internet using your computer. Skype uses decentralized peer-to-peer technologies, so your calls do not go through a central server, but through distributed servers and other users. It uses its own proprietary communication protocol to achieve this. In addition, all communications are [...]

Installing Skype on older Ubuntu versions

piyushmap — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 03:14:43 PST

Hello Friends, Suppose you are running ubuntu 7.04 or 8.x. Skype is not available in any Ubuntu software repository, and therefore cannot be installed with Ubuntu’s package management software such as Synaptic or apt-get without adding a repository containing Skype. There is the official Skype repository: Skype Forum Using Skype’s apt repository Simply add the [...]

Removing a password from an SSL Key

piyushmap — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:46:43 PST

Hello Friends, Removing a password | passphrase from an SSL Key You can create an SSL Certificate by following steps. Everybody wants to create secure cert with an including strong password, From a security point of using a passphrase is a good thing, but from a practical point of that is not very useful. When [...]

ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so

piyushmap — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:49:57 PST

Hello Friends, requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so to be installed by the site administrator. Ioncube loader is used to Secure your PHP scripts with the ionCube PHP Encoder. Protect files with PHP encoding, encryption, obfuscation and licensing capabilities. If your server does not have ionCube support already enabled, you can obtain Loaders for your [...]

How to Navicat for Mysql on CentOS

piyushmap — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:55:43 PST

Hello Friends, Navicat for MySQL is a powerful MySQL Database Server administration and development tool. It works with any MySQL version from 3.21 or above and supports most of the latest MySQL features including Trigger, Procedure, Function, Event, View, Manage User, and so on. You can download navicat from here. [root@map007 /]# cd /opt/ [root@map007 [...]

Howto Samba on Fedora | Centos

piyushmap — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:09:46 PST

Howto Samba on Fedora | Centos Hello Friends, Samba is an open source implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. It allows the networking of Microsoft Windows®, Linux, UNIX, and other operating systems together, enabling access to Windows-based file and printer shares. Samba’s use of SMB allows it to appear as a Windows server [...]

Install skype on CentOS 5.4

piyushmap — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:30:20 PST

Hello Friends, Yesterday, i was searching skype rpm for CentOS on web. But didn’t find it. However, there is no binary RPM for CentOS. You can install the static version by follow steps. First you need to make sure you have various 32-bit libraries installed on your CentOS box : [root@centos ~]# yum install glib2.i386 [...]

Google Launches Open Source YouTube Channel

piyushmap — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:16:32 PST

Hello Friends, Google has launched an open source channel on YouTube. The aim is to collect and organize all the videos related to Google and open source projects in one location. This YouTube channel is managed by the “Open source programs office” of Google, who’s duty is to maintain a healthy relationship with the open [...]

Windows Authentication with LDAP

piyushmap — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:37:04 PST

Hello Friends, Windows XP/Vista/7/2008 Authentication with LDAP | 389 Directory Server | Fedora Directory Server Today we are going to learn, A very interesting topic, i.e. windows authentication with LDAP. Its very easy task by pGina open source tool. We need to configure samba and do lots of configuration for windows client machines. But now [...]

389 DS | LDAP password information update failed

piyushmap — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:21:34 PST

Hello Friends, 389 DS | LDAP password information update failed | user is not allowed to change password | passwd: Permission denied 3 Days back i have installed 389 Directory Server | Fedora Directory Server on my CentOS box. And i have tested or done with all basic configurations and user’s authentications. And i was [...]

Happy New Year 2011

piyushmap — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:37:06 PST

Now time to say good bye 2010…… Wish you a Very Happy & Auspicious New Year. May God bless you with good health, happiness and peace. ************************************************************************************************************************ Enjoy Linux !!!

Create a user in Fedora DS and Client Authentication

piyushmap — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:39:45 PST

How to install Fedora DS | 389 Directory Server on CentOS First we are going to create a user under Directory server, So open your directory server console…by entering below command. Note:- your Host Name or FQDN name “389ldap.linuxsurgeon.org” should be resolve. [root@389ldap ~]# 389-console * Enter your password and login into directory server. Now [...]

389 Directory Server | Fedora Directory Server on CentOS

piyushmap — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:10:30 PST

Hello Friends, First you need to download & install epel rpm package, that is repository rpm packages for RHEL4 and RHEL5. The repository package installs the repo details on your local system for yum or up2date to use. Then you can install packages with your usual method, and the EPEL repository is included. [root@389ldap ~]# [...]

Google’s ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman

piyushmap — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:58:42 PST

Google’s ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman New cloud computing OS released by Google is plan to push people into ‘careless computing’, warns free software advocate (updated) Google’s new cloud computing ChromeOS looks like a plan “to push people into careless computing” by forcing them to store their data in [...]