Sharon Christine

Sharon Christine

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How to Enable and Install Third Party Packages Using EPEL Repository on CentOS/RHEL

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 1K+ Views

In this article we shall try to learn, how to add EPEL Repository for Linux. EPEL (Extra Package for Enterprise Linux) is an open source and free community based repository from the Fedora community team which provides high quality and good add-on software’s for Linux distributions. It has Red Hat Enter Linux, CentOS, Scientific Linux and most of the repositories which are maintained by the Fedora team only.Why we use EPEL Repositories for PackagesProvides a lot of open source packages which are installed using yum.EPEL repositories are open source and they are 100% free to use.There will not be any ...

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How to Deal With Team Attrition

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 327 Views

Last week, while discussing with my colleagues on various topics, the discussions took an unexpected turn and reached to one of the trending topic called ‘Employee Attrition’. Frankly saying it was not unexpected, actually for the last couple of months we have been seeing many ‘good-bye’ or ‘keep in touch’ kind of parting emails almost twice or thrice in a week. Everybody is discussing on it, whether it is during lunch time or coffee breaks, the gossip and rumors are in the air!These type of discussions are not only restricted to one company. Actually, you can see such trends in ...

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How to Create a RAID 5 Storage Array with ‘mdadm’ on Ubuntu 16.04

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 3K+ Views

In this article, we will learn how to create a RAID 5 Array configuration using the ‘mdadm’ utility.The ‘mdadm’ is a utility which is used to create and manage storage arrays on Linux with RAID capability where the administrators are having great flexibility in managing the individual storages devices and creating the logical storage with a high performance and redundancy.RAID 5 Array is a type where we implement by striping the data across the total available devices. Every component of the each stripe is calculated by parity block. If any device fails the parity block, it will use the remaining ...

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How To Configure mod_rewrite for Apache on CentOS 7

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 1K+ Views

In this article, we will learn about how to configure the mod_rewrite for Apache on CentOS 7, Apache is a very popular web server which allows us to customize and enable its capabilities and disable them. if we now needed more, the Apache administrator has permissions to change according to our needs of the web application.PrerequisitesWe needed a Linux machine installed with CentOS 7.We need a non-root user with sudo permissions.Installing the Apache Web ServerWe will install the Apache Web Server using yum as, Apache is available with the default packages with the management utility of the CentOS repository.The Apache ...

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How To Change The MySQL Data Directory to Another Location on Ubuntu 16.04

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 2K+ Views

In this article, we will learn how to change the MySQL Data Directory or relocate the MySQL Database data to the new location, this situation may be used when the database is growing very fast, or for some security reasons we want to move the data directory to the new location.PrerequisitesAn Ubuntu machine with a non-root user with Sudo permission.MySQL installed and working.A new volume or location where we want to move the database data location, the new location will be /mnt/data_vol/MySQL as the data_vol is the new volume attached to the machine or server.Changing the MySQL Data Folder LocationBefore ...

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How to Change Apache Default Web Root Folder to a New Location on Ubuntu 16.04

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 13K+ Views

In this article, we will learn how to change the Apache default web root folder to a new location. By default, the Apache web root or Document root folder location is at /var/www/html.These type of changes will be useful for security reason or having the space issue due to data size, we want to change the document root folder to another location or mount point. This will be helpful if we have multiple instances and we want to keep the data for each website into their own volumes or folders.PrerequisitesAn Ubuntu 16.04 server with a user with Sudo permissions on ...

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How to Avoid Spyware during Online Browsing?

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 182 Views

Spyware is an unwanted program that gets installed in user’s system without his/her permission and tracks all the activities like important log-in information, valuable data, internet interactions etc. In addition to that, it hampers the performance of systems and even redirects web browser searches.Its rank on vulnerability is high because detection is very difficult. Before some spyware will be installed on your system, you have to open or click on some programs. The usual sources of these are spam folders of your mail, free downloaded software, misleading pop-ups and corrupt websites. Unless you are not sharp enough to judge these ...

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How to Add Disk Storage to Oracle Virtual Box on Linux

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 18K+ Views

This article is for those who are looking to install software on your Virtual Box but running low disk space issue. At the same time, you might also feel the need to add disk storage to Oracle VirtualBox by creating a new and larger drive to build the existing drive. Below are the steps to allocate more space by adding a virtual drive to a Virtual Box, The Guest VirtualBox is running the Red Hat Linux 6.7.Adding the Virtual DriveOpen Oracle VM Virtual Box Manager, select the Virtual Box for which you want to add the new disk and click ...

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How to Add a New Disk Drive to a Linux Machine

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 10K+ Views

This article helps you to configure and add a new disk to the Linux box. This is one of the most common problems encountered by system administrators these days since the servers are tending to run out of disk space to store excess data. Fortunately, disk space is now one of the cheapest. We shall look at the steps necessary to configure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. x to add more space by installing the disk.ContentsMounted Filesystems or Logical VolumesGetting StartedFinding the New Hard Drive in RHEL 6Creating Linux PartitionsCreating a Filesystem on an RHEL 6 Disk PartitionMounting a ...

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How Technology can Boost your Career

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 770 Views

We never think about the complexities involved in the basic things we use daily. However the luxuries we enjoy are just because of the advancement in technologies, and it’s a beautiful thought to try and understand how to use these everyday tech apps to improve your career goals and plans.Adopting and learning new technologies is no more limited to techies, as it has today become a basic necessity for individuals in each and every field. Beginners also realize now that they need to learn and practice new concepts so that they can prove their worth to the recruiting world.Sometimes a ...

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