Category: Linux Tips

Faster website access using Mod_Deflate Compression

There are many reasons for a website to run slow one of them is heavy content i.e. the website content received by client (browsers) is larger in size and on slower connections this could be a nightmare. Now using Mod_Deflate you can compress the size of files before delivering it to clients. Mod_Deflate is based
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FIX:- (28)No space left on device: Couldn’t create accept lock

Sometime Apache (HTTPD) service on a Server stops and while restart it shows following messages in error_logs [Wed Sep 17 00:28:23 2008] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/local/apache/bin/suexec) [Wed Sep 17 00:28:23 2008] [crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: Parent could not create RewriteLock file /usr/local/apache/logs/rewrite_lock Configuration Failed Such errors appears when you are
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Portmap Error: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer

_ While setting and configuring NFS share on a server when you try to restart portmap service you get following error [root@server mounted]# service portmap restart pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer Stopping portmap:                                          [FAILED] Starting portmap:                                          [  OK  ] [root@server mounted]# Logs (tail -f /var/log/message) shows that
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How to switch from KDE to GNOME in openSUSE

openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE and a number of other companies. After Novell acquired SUSE Linux in January 2004, Novell decided to release the SUSE Linux Professional product as a 100% open source project. openSUSE by
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Installation of GNUPG and GNUPG-PHP extension

GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a GPL Licensed alternative to the PGP suite of cryptographic software and in this post I am going to explain how you can install GNUPG and GNUPG PHP extensions on your Server. Step 1: Go to download Directory cd /usr/local/src/ Step 2: Download Required Modules Download GNUPG, libgpg-error
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FIX:- Performance Problem on Ubuntu (Slow ALT+TAB)

Last week I have installed “Macbuntu” on my Ubuntu 10.04 system which looks fabulous but it was putting extra burden on Resource of my system. So, I un-installed it and after reboot it was just like fresh installed system i.e. all my customized settings, desktop, wallpapers were switched back to default settings. After 20-30 minutes
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