It may be useful to make a backup of a specific database through the command line. Surely it is easier to use tools like phpMyAdmin, but in case of emergency or because you prefer use the shell, this info is certainly useful. The executable that performs the operation is “mysqldump” which is usually installed with [...]

Today we had the need to “burn” (of course the correct term is “load”) an ISO image on a bootable USB stick. The problem was  how to transfer a previously ISO image on a USB key and make it bootable. We found this very interesting project on sourceforge, named  UNetbootin.
This small program in Windows version ( [...]

Just installing NRPE client for Nagios into Suse Linux Enterprise 10.
After ./configure i get this error “configure: error: Cannot find ssl headers”
You can solve installing openssl-devel with Yast or with ” yast2 -i openssl-devel”

If you need to watch how many active network connections are running on your machine, and what processes using it, simply run from root (or under Sudo)
watch netstat -naop
where:
-n: show ip address
-a: show only active connections
-o: show the ports connected
-P: pid and name of processes