Category: Open-Source

  • NFS Sharing Between CentOS Servers

    In this blog, I’m going to describe how we can share folders between CentOS servers using Network File System (NFS). For this purpose, I’m setting up two CentOS 6.5 Minimal servers named as CentOS-1 and CentOS-2. The IP addresses of CentOS-1 and CentOS-2 are 172.16.5.5 and 172.16.5.6 respectively. I’m going to create a folder in…

  • How To Restore Zimbra When LDAP DB Is Corrupted

    A week ago, I received a call from one of our clients to whom we provide system and networking support. They had called me to inform that their Zimbra server had stopped working after an unexpected power outage. So, I asked them to provide me a remote access to their server so that I could analyze…

  • Custom Disk Partitioning in CentOS

    Here, I’m going to explain how we can perform custom disk partitioning while installing a CentOS system. This is a continuity to my earlier blog in which I wrote about the installation of CentOS 6.5 Minimal system. If you haven’t read my previous blog and want to know from where I’m continuing this blog, please…

  • Initial Configuration of CentOS 6.5

    Hello! In this article, I’ll be explaining about initial configuration steps for CentOS 6.5 system. You can learn about CentOS from here. These are the tasks we need to perform after our new CentOS server is installed and before the specific applications or software are installed. Without further adieu, let’s get into the setup process. CentOS Networking Configuration If…

  • Installation of CentOS 6.5 Minimal

    Hello! In this blog, I’m going to write about how to install CentOS 6.5 Minimal operating system. To briefly introduce CentOS; it is an open-source operating system based on Linux kernel and derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is developed and maintained by the open source community. This open community itself provides support for the users…

  • CoovaChilli With EasyHotspot And Radius

    Hello and welcome! Thank you for visiting my blog. Today, I’m going to write about  CoovaChilli, formerly known as ChilliSpot. It is an opensource Wi-Fi hotspot solution. I’m setting up CoovaChilli with EasyHotspot, also an open-source web portal. And FreeRadius server is being used for authentication. If you want to do it Ubuntu, please read this article. Before I…