One of the most useful tools for multimedia conversions (audio/video) is ffmpeg. This tool has a long tradition: started in 2000, it is used by many Linux programs (both command line and with visual interface). In order to install it, you will need to setup first RPMforge and Epel repositories. You can find here the… Read More »
One of the basic (yet very useful) operation you can do on a server is to change the hostname. The hostname is basically a label you assign to it so you can identify it more easily. To change it you need to edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network: HOSTNAME=myserver.domain.com
One of the nasty tasks you sometimes have to do is to duplicate one file and replace a certain text (for example a subdomain name) with a different one (maybe another subdomain name?). Sure, you can just go and edit it manually, you can download the file, use Find/Replace in an editor and I’m sure… Read More »
Everyone uses yum command to install packages on Red Hat/CentOS platforms, but not many people actually care what happens behind the scene. Did you know that the packages installed by yum and nothing more than rpm files? Sure, in 90% of the cases you don’t really care .. if it works, well .. it works.… Read More »
One of the most common problems of a VPS server is the CPU usage. Of course, each process that runs on the machine requires CPU resources. The most common measure of CPU usage on Linux is the server load. Basically, the bigger the load value, the more your CPU is used. To see the current… Read More »