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How to setup a redundant NFS server with DRBD and Heartbeat in CentOS 5

How to setup a redundant NFS server with DRBD and Heartbeat in CentOS 5

by on 18. Jan, 2009 in Featured Articles, Linux, Software

This tutorial will guide you through the entire process of setting up a highly available NFS server.  To proceed, you must have the following: 1. 2 servers with similar hard disk setup (These will be used to create a redundant nfs server) 2. atleast 1 server where the nfs share will be mounted. 3. Static [...]

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How to Install ThinkorSwim in Linux

How to Install ThinkorSwim in Linux

by on 11. Oct, 2008 in Featured Articles, Linux, Miscellaneous, Software

Here are the quick an easy steps on how to install TOS in Linux (Debian Distro). First you will need to setup Java on your computer so lets go ahead and do that. Open up the console and login as super user. su Now that we have full privileges, lets edit the sources.list file so [...]

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Understanding Linux File Permissions

Understanding Linux File Permissions

by on 03. Oct, 2008 in Featured Articles, Linux

File permissions in Linux are actually pretty easy to understand and modify.  To check the permissions on a file just navigate to the directory and use the following command to list the files and their details. ls -l As you can see, the first piece of information on each line are the permissions.  There are [...]

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