Files created in windows when moved to linux will have ^M character at the end of lines when you open the files in Vi editor. To remove the strange characters open the file in Vi editor and type

:%s/.$// 

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Linux supports many file system types like Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, NFS, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS etc. To find out what type of file systems are mounted in your system, issue the command $ df -T Output from the command

Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1     ext4    94088076   9090252  80218356  11% /
udev      devtmpfs     1023536         4   1023532   1% /dev

Fail2ban is a software used to ban IP's which shows strange behavior. It can be configured to reject IP's for a certain amount of time. To install Fail2ban we need to download the application from the source. Login as the root user and go to /opt $ cd /opt $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fail2ban/fail2ban-stable/fail2ban-0.8.4/fail2ban-0.8.4.tar.bz2?use_mirror=transact Next unzip the downloaded file $ tar -xf fail2ban-0.8.4.tar.bz2 $ cd fail2ban-0.8.4 (more…)

To check the Python version number in Linux, simply type $ python -V You will get an output

Python 2.4.3

First, download the Zend framework and unzip the file contents to a location. At the time of the writing ZendFramework-1.11.12 was in use and we have used that version in this example. Key content of the download is the /library folder which has Zend libraries in it. Then, go to the "conf" folder that was created when the site was created. Inside the conf folder, create a new file and name it vhost.conf Add the below contents to vhost.conf and save it. (more…)

... a question that raises in the mind of programmers developing applications in their local development environments. This can be achieved by making the following modifications. Step (i) Install the WAMP / XAMPP server in your windows machine. After this install you will be able to access sites created on the localhost with URL http://localhost Step (ii) Download and extract the send mail application for Windows from http://glob.com.au/sendmail/. Remember the path where you have extracted sendmail. For e.g. c:\wamp\sendmail Step (iii) Edit sendmail.ini within c:\wamp\sendmail. This ini file has enough documentation explaining how the configuration changes should happen on the file. (more…)