(LinuxWorld) -- I compared network and system administration to cooking in
Part 6, "How to install Red Hat over a network" and, in this installment,
individual Debian X terminals are on the menu. First, let's tidy the kitchen
and clean the stovetop -- because some more readers have reported that their
Red Hat preparations boiled over! (All right, I promise -- no more kitchen
references. For a while. Maybe.)
The department of "Not quite errata and not quite Murphy's Law"
Several readers reported their X terminal machines will boot to a gray screen
and nothing else -- the GUI login window of their remote application server
never appears anywhere except on the application server's local console. Most
of these readers are running Red Hat on their application servers and
configured the machines to boot to runlevel 5, the networked, multi-user,
graphical runlevel by edi... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- Before we continue and begin the integration of mail and
QuickPage on our Text Messaging Gateway, there are a couple of items that
need to be addressed.
The first comes under the general heading of "Errata." It is no show stopper,
but in Part 10 of this series, I told you that Debian's Apt utility helps
ensure that you get the benefit of their latest security enhancements. Then,
I immediately proceeded to leave out an essential line in
/etc/apt/sources.list! Okay, I'm an idiot!
Let's take care of this right now. Change to the /etc/apt directory, and with
a text ... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- Why is accounting ignored by the Linux community? I find this
puzzling. When I am puzzled, I sometimes rant and rave. If things get out of
hand, sometimes the nice men in uniforms come to my side and inject me with a
calming substance.
I'm all better now, and let me tell you what I've decided to do instead of
starting yet another rant. I'm going to find a Linux-based business
accounting system that I like and that dovetails nicely with our Linux
Network for Peanuts. I think I may have found one.
It is called Nola. Today, we will prepare you to set up your own serv... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- A problem inexperienced Linux users (like me) must overcome
is the diversity of Linux distributions that result from free access to
source code. Freedom comes at a price, and part of that price is paid when
one attempts to install software that comes from third party developers.
Their time and resources are limited, and the tendency is to focus on one
Linux distribution, particularly during the early stages of development.
Red Hat, as the most widely known commercial Linux distribution, receives the
lion's share of attention from developers. Our purpose is to evalu... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- The Information Technology (IT) industry serves acronyms for
breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven da... (oops! I meant to write, "24/7
365"). I've searched diligently for the right Linux accounting solution since
Q4 Y2K minus 2, and naturally enough, there's an acronym for the type of
application we are evaluating together here. Nola (as we are deploying it) is
a LAMP application, which merely means that it runs on Linux, it's Web
enabled and served to the network with Apache, while data is handled by the
MySQL database, and users see, and interact with dynamic Web ... (more)
When not buried under his real job in commercial two-way radio system design and sales, Colin Mattoon is a part-time Linux system administrator at Northwest Communications in Lewiston, ID.
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