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In this guide, we are going to learn how to set system wide proxy in Ubuntu 18.04. Imagine you are in a local network environment where access to the Internet is also possible when you are going through a proxy server. Well, in this guide we are gonna learn how to configure system wide proxy settings on your Ubuntu...

In this guide, we are going to learn how to install and configure SNMP on Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS 7. SNMP is an acronym for Simple Network Management Protocol. It provides an agentless method of managing and monitoring of network devices and servers for health information, system metrics such as CPU load, Physical Memory usage, number of running processes,...

Today, we are going to learn about how to install and Use VeraCrypt to Encrypt Drives on Ubuntu 18.04. So what is VeraCrypt? VeraCrypt is an open-source software forked from TrueCrypt whose development and maintenance has since been discontinued. It is used for performing on-the-fly disk encryption (OTFE). On-the-fly encryption means that data is encrypted before it is written to...

In this demo, we are going to learn how to install and setup DokuWiki on ubuntu 20.04 server. DokuWiki is an opensource software written in PHP that allows users to create and edit pages using a web browser. It works on plain texts and requires no database. DokuWiki is feature rich. Read about the features on DokuWiki features page. Install and Setup DokuWiki on...

I have an OpenLDAP server for central authentication. How can I configure DokuWiki to enable authentication against OpenLDAP server. In this guide, we are going to learn how to configure DokuWiki for OpenLDAP authentication. Configure DokuWiki OpenLDAP Authentication Before you can proceed, ensure that you got OpenLDAP server and DokuWiki installed. Follow the guides below to learn how to setup OpenLDAP...

Welcome folks to this very tutorial on how to install and setup Zsh and Oh-my-Zsh on Ubuntu 18.04. Z shell (ZSH) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as well as a command interpreter for shell scripting. It incorporates features of other shells such as Bash, tcsk, ksh. Some of the features include; ...

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to configure remote logging with Rsyslog on Ubuntu 18.04 Log files are files that contain messages about the system, including the kernel, services, and applications running on it. There are different log files for different information. For example, there is a default system log file, a log file just for security...

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about installing PHP 7.3.3 on CentOS 7.6. The PHP development team has announced the availability of PHP 7.3.3. This is a security release of the more stable version of PHP. The release has addressed a handful of bugs. You can check these fixes on the ChangeLog. Our previous guide describes installation of...

In our previous tutorials, we learnt how to install Nagios plugins as well the Nagios NRPE agents from source. You can check them via the links below; How to Install Nagios Plugins From Source RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux How to Install Nagios NRPE Agent on RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux Well, in this article, we are going to learn how to install Nagios Plugins and NRPE agents...