Admins eHow SysAdmin Tips & Tricks

September 3, 2012

Install SNMP on Debian

Filed under: Debian — Tags: , , , — admin @ 10:15 am

The following easy steps will install snmp daemon on your Debian server :

apt-get install snmpd snmp

now snmpd simple configuration ( change SECRET_NAME to a complex string ) :

echo rocommunity SECRET_NAME > /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

restart snmpd :

/etc/init.d/snmpd restart

last step to check snmpd is working ( change SECRET_NAME to the string you have chose before ) :

snmpwalk -v 1 -c SECRET_NAME -O e 127.0.0.1

you should get an output like below :

iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 = STRING: "Linux debian 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:01:19 UTC 2012 i686"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 = OID: iso.3.6.1.4.1.8072.3.2.10
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 = Timeticks: (7026) 0:01:10.26
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.4.0 = STRING: "root"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0 = STRING: "debian"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.6.0 = STRING: "Unknown"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.8.0 = Timeticks: (0) 0:00:00.00
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.1 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.10.3.1.1
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.2 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.11.3.1.1
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.3 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.15.2.1.1
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.4 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.1
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.5 = OID: iso.3.6.1.2.1.49
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.6 = OID: iso.3.6.1.2.1.4
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.7 = OID: iso.3.6.1.2.1.50
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.2.8 = OID: iso.3.6.1.6.3.16.2.2.1
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.1 = STRING: "The SNMP Management Architecture MIB."
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.2 = STRING: "The MIB for Message Processing and Dispatching."
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.3 = STRING: "The management information definitions for the SNMP User-based Security Model."
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.4 = STRING: "The MIB module for SNMPv2 entities"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.5 = STRING: "The MIB module for managing TCP implementations"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.6 = STRING: "The MIB module for managing IP and ICMP implementations"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.7 = STRING: "The MIB module for managing UDP implementations"
iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.9.1.3.8 = STRING: "View-based Access Control Model for SNMP."

September 9, 2011

Install Apache2 + PHP5 on Debian

Filed under: Apache,Debian,PHP — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 8:16 am

Very Simple…

apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

July 16, 2010

How to install Byte UnixBench on debian lenny

Filed under: Debian,General — Tags: , , , , , , — admin @ 2:28 pm

From UnixBench website :

UnixBench is the original BYTE UNIX benchmark suite, updated and revised by many people over the years.

The purpose of UnixBench is to provide a basic indicator of the performance of a Unix-like system; hence, multiple tests are used to test various aspects of the system’s performance. These test results are then compared to the scores from a baseline system to produce an index value, which is generally easier to handle than the raw scores. The entire set of index values is then combined to make an overall index for the system.

Some very simple graphics tests are included to measure the 2D and 3D graphics performance of the system.

Multi-CPU systems are handled. If your system has multiple CPUs, the default behaviour is to run the selected tests twice — once with one copy of each test program running at a time, and once with N copies, where N is the number of CPUs. This is designed to allow you to assess:

  • the performance of your system when running a single task
  • the performance of your system when running multiple tasks
  • the gain from your system’s implementation of parallel processing

Do be aware that this is a system benchmark, not a CPU, RAM or disk benchmark. The results will depend not only on your hardware, but on your operating system, libraries, and even compiler.

First install required libraries for compilation :

apt-get install libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxext-dev perl  perl-modules make

Then get the unixbench and run it :

wget http://byte-unixbench.googlecode.com/files/unixbench-5.1.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf unixbench-5.1.2.tar.gz
cd unixbench-5.1.2
./Run

August 5, 2009

Install locate and updatedb on CentOS and Debian

Filed under: CentOS,Debian,General — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 3:55 pm

locate and updatedb commands are the best commands to search and find files in Linux. if you dont have them installed on your Linux , use the following commands :
Debian :

apt-get install locate

CentOS :

yum install mlocate

July 15, 2009

How to install ffmpeg on Debian Lenny from SVN

Filed under: Debian,General — Tags: , , , — admin @ 11:36 am

From ffmpeg.org :

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library.

Installation Guide :
download the following debian package and install it :

wget http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/d/debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb
dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb

Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/source.list :

nano /etc/apt/nano sources.list
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main

update your apt cache :

apt-get update

install needed utils :

apt-get install checkinstall yasm git-core subversion

install ffmpeg dependencies :

apt-get build-dep ffmpeg

Install x264 :

git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
cd x264
./configure
make
checkinstall --pkgname=x264 --pkgversion "1:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`" --backup=no --default

Install libtheora :

wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf libtheora-1.1.1.tar.gz
cd libtheora-1.1.1
./configure
make
checkinstall --pkgname=libtheora --pkgversion "1.1.1" --backup=no --default

remove old libx264-dev :

apt-get remove libx264-dev

download the latest release of ffmpeg using subversion :

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg

configure and make ffmpeg :

cd ffmpeg/
./configure --enable-version3 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-libgsm --enable-postproc --enable-libxvid --enable-libfaac --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis --enable-gpl --enable-x11grab --enable-nonfree
make
checkinstall --pkgname=ffmpeg --pkgversion "4:0.5+svn`date +%Y%m%d`" --backup=no --default

and we are all set 🙂
just one more note , if you are going to convert flv files to 3gp files like me 😀 use the following command :

ffmpeg -i input.flv -s 176x144 -vcodec h263 -acodec aac output.3gp

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