Mutt is a very powerful and fast email client (text based )in linux.
here is a small tutorial how to use mutt as a email client on Linux.
First you need to install mutt :
for this in Ubuntu open ur console and type in : sudo apt-get install mutt
in fedora : yum install mutt
once it is installed you need to create a couple of directories in your home folder:
$mkdir -p ~/.mutt/cache/headers
$mkdir ~/.mutt/cache/bodies
$touch ~/.mutt/certificates
Now type in nano /home/username/.muttrc and fill in the according to the sample muttrc file below:
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2010/06/muttrc-gmail.txt
Edit the .muttrc file and fill in ur username and password in appropriate place and then save it.
Now go back to ur terminal and type mutt.It will prompt u to save certificates from google.Type a(always save) and Bingo !
You have ur working email client at ur disposal.
How To Configure Mutt in Linux
01 Dec 2011
How To Setup A Web-Server in fedora/Ubuntu
01 Dec 2011
This is the first self-help guide to configure your web server in an Ubuntu/fedora. Only the very basic and initial server config will be dealt in this post.Subsequent post will have the advanced stuffs.
First inorder to configure your system to act as a web-server, the best and most favourable thing u can do is that you install the server installation repos initially.If you are installing fedora from a dvd, they give you four options and you should select the server option.So that your OS is already optimized to be a server.And don’t worry it will be having all the stuff you need in a graphical desktop.
Here are the steps you need to follow once you are connected to an internet connection with decent speed.
Any server in Linux is based on LAMP.
Its works as good as any xampp server you have used in Windows.Though you need to have some basic understanding of permissions in Linux.
To install MySQL5, you need to do this:
yum install mysql mysql-server
Then we create the system startup links for MySQL (so that MySQL starts automatically whenever the system boots) and start the MySQL server:
chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
Run
mysql_secure_installation
to set a password for the user root (otherwise anybody can access your MySQL database!):
[root@server1~]# mysql_secure_installation
NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MySQL
SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!
In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we'll need the current
password for the root user. If you've just installed MySQL, and
you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank,
so you should just press enter here.
Enter current password for root (enter for none): <-- ENTER
OK, successfully used password, moving on...
Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MySQL
root user without the proper authorisation.
Set root password? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
New password: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Re-enter new password: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Password updated successfully!
Reloading privilege tables..
... Success!
By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone
to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for
them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation
go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a
production environment.
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!
Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'. This
ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!
By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can
access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed
before moving into a production environment.
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
- Dropping test database...
... Success!
- Removing privileges on test database...
... Success!
This is the first self-help guide to configure your web server in an Ubuntu/fedora. Only the very basic and initial server config will be dealt in this post.Subsequent post will have the advanced stuffs.
First inorder to configure your system to act as a web-server, the best and most favourable thing u can do is that you install the server installation repos initially.If you are installing fedora from a dvd, they give you four options and you should select the server option.So that your OS is already optimized to be a server.And don’t worry it will be having all the stuff you need in a graphical desktop.
Here are the steps you need to follow once you are connected to an internet connection with decent speed.
Any server in Linux is based on LAMP.
Its works as good as any xampp server you have used in Windows.Though you need to have some basic understanding of permissions in Linux.
To install MySQL5, you need to do this:
yum install mysql mysql-server
Then we create the system startup links for MySQL (so that MySQL starts automatically whenever the system boots) and start the MySQL server:
chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
Run
mysql_secure_installation
to set a password for the user root (otherwise anybody can access your MySQL database!):
[root@server1~]# mysql_secure_installation
NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MySQL
SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!
In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we'll need the current
password for the root user. If you've just installed MySQL, and
you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank,
so you should just press enter here.
Enter current password for root (enter for none): <-- ENTER
OK, successfully used password, moving on...
Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MySQL
root user without the proper authorisation.
Set root password? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
New password: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Re-enter new password: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Password updated successfully!
Reloading privilege tables..
... Success!
By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone
to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for
them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation
go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a
production environment.
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!
Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'. This
ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!
By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can
access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed
before moving into a production environment.
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
- Dropping test database...
... Success!
Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far
will take effect immediately.
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!
Cleaning up...
All done! If you've completed all of the above steps, your MySQL
installation should now be secure.
Thanks for using MySQL!
[root@server1~]#
Since you have installed the server edition,Apacche will be installed by default,if not install using following commands.( Yum install httpd or Sudo apt-get install httpd)
Also u need to add install apache too.To do so you need to type these in terminal
yum install httpd
then if u want your system to start this service at startup you need to type this.
chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on
and you can start apache by
service httpd start or /etc/init.d/httpd start
To install PHP5 you need to type
yum install php
and then restart the server by service httpd restart
To get Mysql support in PHP5 you need to type
yum search php and then
yum install php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-eaccelerator php-magickwand php-magpierss php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mssql php-shout php-snmp php-soap php-tid
And then again restart the apache2.
Now to install PHPMyadmin
You need to use these commands
yum install phpmyadmin and then we need to configure phpmyadmin to accept connections from other than localhost for that you can
use either vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf or gedit /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf or nano etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf
Now all u need to do is to comment out out the stanza):
Once you are done with this you are good to go.Now go into terminal,Login as root and type init 6 so as to restart your computer so as changes takes effect
and then you do the following steps.
Check out whether the apache and mysql are running or not by typing
service httpd status and service mysql status.
If the are running go to your browser and type localhost /127.0.0.1
you would see you server running as u can get a apache page.
Now you can put your site files or wordpress/joomla/drupal cms in /etc/html/www
and follow the installation steps.
Note: you need to be root to do most of the steps. ubuntu user can replace yum with sudo apt-get in all these commands.
Once you have experience in all these stuffs you can install using a single line.But here this is elaborated and detailed so that you may understand the components you have installed.
Any problems if any can be posted .
First inorder to configure your system to act as a web-server, the best and most favourable thing u can do is that you install the server installation repos initially.If you are installing fedora from a dvd, they give you four options and you should select the server option.So that your OS is already optimized to be a server.And don’t worry it will be having all the stuff you need in a graphical desktop.
Here are the steps you need to follow once you are connected to an internet connection with decent speed.
Any server in Linux is based on LAMP.
Its works as good as any xampp server you have used in Windows.Though you need to have some basic understanding of permissions in Linux.
To install MySQL5, you need to do this:
yum install mysql mysql-server
Then we create the system startup links for MySQL (so that MySQL starts automatically whenever the system boots) and start the MySQL server:
chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
Run
mysql_secure_installation
to set a password for the user root (otherwise anybody can access your MySQL database!):
[root@server1~]# mysql_secure_installation
NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MySQL
SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!
In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we'll need the current
password for the root user. If you've just installed MySQL, and
you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank,
so you should just press enter here.
Enter current password for root (enter for none): <-- ENTER
OK, successfully used password, moving on...
Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MySQL
root user without the proper authorisation.
Set root password? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
New password: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Re-enter new password: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Password updated successfully!
Reloading privilege tables..
... Success!
By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone
to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for
them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation
go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a
production environment.
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!
Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'. This
ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!
By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can
access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed
before moving into a production environment.
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
- Dropping test database...
... Success!
- Removing privileges on test database...
... Success!
This is the first self-help guide to configure your web server in an Ubuntu/fedora. Only the very basic and initial server config will be dealt in this post.Subsequent post will have the advanced stuffs.
First inorder to configure your system to act as a web-server, the best and most favourable thing u can do is that you install the server installation repos initially.If you are installing fedora from a dvd, they give you four options and you should select the server option.So that your OS is already optimized to be a server.And don’t worry it will be having all the stuff you need in a graphical desktop.
Here are the steps you need to follow once you are connected to an internet connection with decent speed.
Any server in Linux is based on LAMP.
Its works as good as any xampp server you have used in Windows.Though you need to have some basic understanding of permissions in Linux.
To install MySQL5, you need to do this:
yum install mysql mysql-server
Then we create the system startup links for MySQL (so that MySQL starts automatically whenever the system boots) and start the MySQL server:
chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
Run
mysql_secure_installation
to set a password for the user root (otherwise anybody can access your MySQL database!):
[root@server1~]# mysql_secure_installation
NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MySQL
SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!
In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we'll need the current
password for the root user. If you've just installed MySQL, and
you haven't set the root password yet, the password will be blank,
so you should just press enter here.
Enter current password for root (enter for none): <-- ENTER
OK, successfully used password, moving on...
Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MySQL
root user without the proper authorisation.
Set root password? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
New password: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Re-enter new password: <-- yourrootsqlpassword
Password updated successfully!
Reloading privilege tables..
... Success!
By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone
to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for
them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation
go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a
production environment.
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!
Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'. This
ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network.
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!
By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can
access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed
before moving into a production environment.
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
- Dropping test database...
... Success!
Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far
will take effect immediately.
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] <-- ENTER
... Success!
Cleaning up...
All done! If you've completed all of the above steps, your MySQL
installation should now be secure.
Thanks for using MySQL!
[root@server1~]#
Since you have installed the server edition,Apacche will be installed by default,if not install using following commands.( Yum install httpd or Sudo apt-get install httpd)
Also u need to add install apache too.To do so you need to type these in terminal
yum install httpd
then if u want your system to start this service at startup you need to type this.
chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on
and you can start apache by
service httpd start or /etc/init.d/httpd start
To install PHP5 you need to type
yum install php
and then restart the server by service httpd restart
To get Mysql support in PHP5 you need to type
yum search php and then
yum install php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-eaccelerator php-magickwand php-magpierss php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mssql php-shout php-snmp php-soap php-tid
And then again restart the apache2.
Now to install PHPMyadmin
You need to use these commands
yum install phpmyadmin and then we need to configure phpmyadmin to accept connections from other than localhost for that you can
use either vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf or gedit /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf or nano etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf
Now all u need to do is to comment out out the stanza):
Once you are done with this you are good to go.Now go into terminal,Login as root and type init 6 so as to restart your computer so as changes takes effect
and then you do the following steps.
Check out whether the apache and mysql are running or not by typing
service httpd status and service mysql status.
If the are running go to your browser and type localhost /127.0.0.1
you would see you server running as u can get a apache page.
Now you can put your site files or wordpress/joomla/drupal cms in /etc/html/www
and follow the installation steps.
Note: you need to be root to do most of the steps. ubuntu user can replace yum with sudo apt-get in all these commands.
Once you have experience in all these stuffs you can install using a single line.But here this is elaborated and detailed so that you may understand the components you have installed.
Any problems if any can be posted .
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VMware Player,Best In Class
27 Nov 2011
If you are Advanced Linux/Unix User and testing latest OS is what you enjoy, then you should definitely switch to VMware Player. Here is the link where you can download it. Once downloaded you can run the downloaded .bundle file using this command in your terminal ($sh ./filename.bundle ) . Make sure your PWD is same as that of the downloaded file. Once installed you are good to go. It is a hassle free software and in many case is better than all its counterparts.
Here is screenshot of the one I use.
Here is screenshot of the one I use.