When we use linux desktop environments, be it ubuntu / fedora, we may need to browse through the file or folder structure and may want a quick command to achieve this need. There are a couple of commands that you can try with these desktop environments. (more…)

There are different variants of Linux in the market like RedHat, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, Mandrake, Suse and a Linux beginner often ponder why they call Linux distributions by various names. The kernel or the heart of all the distributions is Linux and in bringing it to different market usage different community or vendors have adopted the kernel to serve that purpose. (more…)

/etc/apache2/conf.d/ and /etc/apache2/sites-enabled are the two locations from where configuration settings are ready by apache Apache configuration file has two lines (listed below) in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf which does that # Include generic snippets of statements Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/ # Include the virtual host configurations: Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

Files to check - /etc/apache2/ports.conf - /etc/apache2/apache2.conf Consider the ServerName to be "myserver". Check /etc/hosts for an entry 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.100 myserver.com myserver ... (more…)

Location where the Apache error log entries can be found in Ubuntu user@server:~# less /var/log/apache2/error.log

Step 1: $ sudo apt-get install postfix Postfix configuration screen throws you with the following options to choose from i) No changes (no changes to configuration settings) ii) Internet site (Mail sent and received using SMTP) iii) Internet with smarthost (Mail sent to another machine called smarthost) iV) Satellite system (All mail sent to another machine for delivery) v) Local only (No network based mail system. Only applied to this local machine) (more…)