Well its over month we at Csscorp , my current workplace released a complete beginners guide on the deployment of Openstack for Ubuntu natty. All the information for the same can be found at http://www.cssoss.wordpress.com Am lucky to be part of the team where i got my first hand into cloud computing and i can …
Category Archives: Gnu/Linux
Desktop Summit 11 Speakers announced!!
Am very happy to say that my talk has been selected for this year`s Desktop Summit in Berlin. I will be talking about “Indian Government Adoption to FOSS.” The complete list of talks are here https://www.desktopsummit.org/program I just hope to get Visa on time. š
spellchecker in (OO) open-office on ubuntu !!
After 2 hrs of brain storming on weekend in my office finally got spell checker working for my open office 3.2 on ubuntu 10.04. i had to take expert help from Hobbes, nigleb and lastly Indranil dada and it worked. sudo apt-get install hunspellĀ myspell-en-us openoffice.org-help-en-us Once this is installedĀ open a open office document …
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Setting up Monit (On Ubuntu) ..
Apart from playing with the Source Code Open Source Software has given us. Installing Monit :– sudo apt-get install monit This command will install Monit on Ubuntu. In order to Start the Monit we need to edit fileĀ “/etc/default/monit” and set theĀ “startup= 1” This will start the Monit, but we need to do …
Curious case of denyhost and ssh.
I been using denyhost on my own server and many other boxes i been taking care of. I was getting error whenever i tried connecting to my server “ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host” After checking logfile i figured that its happening because of the denyhost. The documentation at the denyhost website explains how to …
Gtalk via Emacs in Ubuntu(Jaunty)
sudo apt-get install emacs-jabber sudo apt-get install gnutls-bin sudo apt-get install openssl (setq jabber-account-list ((“yourid@gmail.com” (:network-server . “talk.google.com”) (:connection-type . ssl))))
Setting Up Local Ubuntu(Jaunty) Repository via Apt-Mirror.
The article mentions the method to deploy APT-MIRROR so that you can use a local repository in your intranet insted going to internet again. I will use the local repository IP to 192.100.100.40 Packages required:– 1.Apt-Mirror 2.Apache Webserver (to distribute to whole intranet) Steps :— 1.Setting up the apt-mirror $sudo apt-get install apt-mirror $sudo nano …
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Installing/Compiling Nagios03 on rhel5
Okey i been planning to do this long back.on rhel5 box here is a simple guide i have made which lets you compile nagio3 from source and install in RHEL5 box. Make sure you have these packages installed:– 1.Apache 2. GCC compiler 3.GD development libraries You can use “yum” to install these packages by running …