Browsing category

How To’s

Setup SysLog Server on CentOS 6 / RHEL 6

Today we will be looking into how to setup a centralized log management for Linux servers, this will help the Linux admin to have a multiple server logs into one single place. The Linux admin not required to login in to each servers for checking the logs, he can just login into the centralized server […]

How To Install Apache Tomcat 9.0 / 8.5 on CentOS 6 / RHEL 6

Apache Tomcat is an open-source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Oracle and provides a “pure Java” HTTP web server environment for running the Java codes. Apache Tomcat includes tools for configuration and management, but can also […]

How To Secure MariaDB Server with mysql_secure_installation command

The mysql_secure_installation command helps us to improve the security of the MariaDB installation. With this command, You can set a password for root accounts. You can remove root accounts that are accessible from outside the local host. You can remove anonymous-user accounts. You can remove the test database (which by default can be accessed by […]

Upgrade from Ubuntu 13.04 to Ubuntu 13.10

Today we will be looking in how to upgrade Ubuntu 13.04 to Ubuntu 13.10, this will take a approx 30 mins to complete; it also depends on internet speed. Before upgrading, it is recommended to take a backup of important files to secure location. You can do on own risk. Follow the steps to upgrade. […]

How to update CentOS 6.2/6.3/6.4 to CentOS 6.5

CentOS community has released its major release of CentOS 6.5 on 1st December 2013, Since from the day of release every one is looking for upgrading the current version to latest CentOS release. This how to is mainly focusing on upgrading previous release of CentOS 6.x to the latest. Before going to update, lets look […]