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TCP Vs UDP :

TCP -Transmission Control Protocol -It is a Protocol used in connection oriented networks
It breaks the data into packets and also supports error correction.
It supports error correction in the transmitted data and thus it is a reliable protocol. TCP is connection orinted protocol means it will get an acknowledgment for the packet it has forwarded.
It is [...]

Automatic way to fix RPM installations

Automatic way to fix RPM installations :
If you are installing rpm which is having many dependancies then you can do it with the up2date utility. It will automatically install all the dependencies for rpm package that is installed. If you have access to Red Hat Network (RHN) you can use the command up2date to update [...]

Setting up the Admin User for tomcat

Setting up the Admin User for tomcat
Edit the “tomcat-users.xml” file as
vi /usr/local/jakarta/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/conf/tomcat-users.xml
[You will have to find out the path for tomcat-users.xml on your server first]
Add a line like in that conf file as :
<user username=”username” password=”password” roles=”manager,admin”/>
You will have to check that none of the default users have the manager or admin roles.

Setting a Universal Co-ordinated Timezone

Setting a Universal Co-ordinated Timezone
If your company is in country A; the data center is having timezone B; your customers are in country Y; and say their users are in country Z.
In this case you can  try Universal Co-ordinated Time (UTC).
Please edit the file /etc/sysconfig/clock as
vi /etc/sysconfig/clock
and change the UTC line as
“UTC=true”
You can set localtimezone [...]

What is PEAR

PEAR Is short for ‘PHP Extension and Application Repository’
PEAR is having it’s primary goal to become a repository for PHP extensions and library code. The most important goal of the PEAR project is to try to define standard coding packages that can be used be developers directoly and it is re-usable coding.
Each package is a [...]

What does Web Hosting Uptime Gaurantee mean to you ?

When you begin to look for a company to host your website, other than the amount of space and bandwidth that is offered, a company will usually promote the web hosting uptime they offer. Most web hosting companies like 1and1 , pickaweb, uk2.net offer an uptime guarantee to promote how well their service is. Other [...]

How to set the mysql database backup cronjob ?

CRON
Cron is a linux utility that schedules a command (or commands) to be executed periodically at certain times. They can perform user-defined tasks such as backing up databases, scheduling mailing lists, clearing old records, etc etc.
To set up a CRON Job, you need to know two things.
1. The command that is to be executed (often [...]

PhpMyAdmin Installation Step by Step

If you are like me on a shared/reseller/dedicated hosting server chances are your web hosting account has cPanel or some other administration panel through which you can create/delete MySQL databases (DBs)/DB users. But you will not be able to:
a. Take selective backup. i.e., backup of only some tables in a DB in different format ( [...]

Horde session handler error

Hello,
If you are getting horde session handler error, then please check if horde db is present on server or not. You can check it with
#mysqlshow |grep horde
It should give you output like,
[~]#mysqlshow |grep horde
| horde [...]

Clientexec: Crontab is not available in your system

Hello,
If you are getting below mentioned error in your client exec
NOTICE: Crontab is not available in your system or you don’t have permissions to use it.
If you receive
If you want it to run from there then you can set it by going to /etc/cron.deny file for the user nobody and remove it.
Its the setting in [...]