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  Install and remote access phpMyAdmin on CentOS

phpMyAdmin is a free and open source tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL with the use of a Web browser. It can perform various tasks such as creating, modifying or deleting databases, tables, fields or rows; executing SQL statements; or managing users and permissions.Today I walk through you the steps to install phpMyAdmin on CentOS. Actually, these steps are applicable to other Linux systems as well. 1. Download the phpMyAdmin from Sourceforge.net. Run command:wge...

   phpMyAdmin,linux,installation,demo     2012-06-21 07:30:29

  A simple tutorial on Linux nohup command

In our daily work, there might be need to run some important program for hours or even days without being abruptly terminated. In such case, we may want to run the program with command nohup. nohup is the abbreviation of no hangup, i.e, don't hang up or terminate the process. This command will tell the process to ignore the system HUP signal. The HUP signal will be emitted when the terminal is exited or disconnected. Normally process will abort its execution when receiving this signal.  Bas...

   NOHUP,LINUX     2020-08-08 01:14:50

  OpenLDAP Proxy -- Installation and configuration

After understanding what the configuration would be for an OpenLDAP proxy, it's time to explain the installation of OpenLDAP proxy and how to make it run. In this post, we will cover how to install OpenLDAP proxy both locally and using docker. Local installation The installation is quite easy, there are a few packages to be installed including the ldap server, ldap client and some utilities. Below steps are for CentOS, the instructions for other platforms should be similar with minor differ...

   INSTALLATION,CENTOS,DOCKER,OPENLDAP,OPENLDAP PROXY     2017-11-03 20:26:41

  Networking Terminologies

Portmaps sudo apt-get install -y portmap Portmap is a part of ONC RPC (Open Network Computing Remote Procedure) collection of software for implementing remote procedure calls between Computer Programs. It is widely used by NFS (Network File System) and NIS. Portmap is a server that converts RPC program number to DARPA protocol port number. It must be used in order to make RPC calls. Network Infomation Service (NIS) sudo apt-get install -y nis NIS is a client server directory service provi...

   Linux,Network programming,Network file system     2012-02-16 06:22:30

  What can .htaccess file do?

A .htaccess file is a directory-level configuration file supported by several web servers, that allows for decentralized management of web server configuration. What can a .htaccess file do? We summarized some of them here.  Hope it may help you. 1. Timezone settingSometimes when you use date() or mktime() functions in PHP, , it may display some weird information because of the timezone difference. For example, one possible warning is :Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the syste...

   .htaccess,setting,tip     2012-06-15 06:39:39

  9 reasons to use Zsh

Like majority *nix users, I have been using bash for many years. Sometimes I feel uncomfortable with bash. I tried use some other shells as well such as ksh, tcsh and zsh which I am going to talk about. A few days ago, I found an open source project ranking in the 6th named oh-my-zsh on Github, I downloaded it and had a try with it. It's amazing. We should use zsh to replace bash now. Why do we need to use zsh? Here is a 4 minutes YouTube video which shows many reasons why we should switch from ...

   zsh, advantage, command     2012-09-28 12:46:39

  How to use xargs command in Linux

What is the xargs command? The xargs command constructs and executes commands provided through standard input. It takes input and converts it into command arguments for another command. This functionality is particularly useful in file management and can be combined with commands like rm, cp, mkdir, and others. Using the xargs command When used alone, the xargs command prompts the user to enter a text string and then passes it to the echo command. This example demonstrates the input provided an...

   XARGS,LINUX     2023-11-17 11:19:41

  Can we believe our eyes?

Several days ago, one of our customers submitted a sample (SHA1: fbe71968d4c5399c2906b56d9feadf19a35beb97, detected as TrojanDropper:Win32/Vundo.L). This trojan hijacks  the hosts “vk.com” and “vkontakte.ru” (both social networking sites in Russia)and redirects them to 92.38.209.252, but achieves this in an unusual way. A common  method used to hijack a website and redirect it to a site of the attacker’s choice is to add an entry in the Windows hosts f...

   Window,Software,Eye,Weired     2011-08-22 12:12:16

  Something you may not know about Shell

Shell is also called command line interface, it is the interface between *nix users and computer. Shell is a program which provides service to access OS kernel services. This article is to introduce some not so well known but useful and interesting knowledge about shell. Wiki shell was born almost at the same time as Unix. The first UNIX shell was written by Ken Thompson in 1971 and its name is Thompson sh. It's older than Linux kernel. The default Shell in most *nix and MacOS is bash, bash was...

   Linux, Unix,Shell,Command     2012-11-24 07:19:47

  How to reset root password in MySQL 8

The user password in MySQL is stored in the user table, the password reset is actually to change the value of record in this table. To change the password in case the password is forgotten, the idea is to bypass the authentication of MySQL and get into the system and update the record password value with SQL command. In MySQL 5, one can start MySQL service with --skip-grant-tables option, this option will tell the service to skip loading the grant tables when starting, hence the root user can lo...

   MYSQL,PASSWORD,MYSQL 8     2018-12-24 21:27:13

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