Category Archives: unix

How to enable CUPS remote administration

Posted on December 16, 2008 by admin

CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X and other UNIX-like operating systems. The default installation of CUPS only enable you to manage it from localhost computer. However, … Continue reading →

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Eth0 is not active at Linux Fedora Startup

Posted on December 7, 2008 by admin

Sometimes even though you have configure such that “Activate device when computer starts” for eth0 in Linux Fedora, it appears to do nothing – eth0 is not active at startup. This maybe a bug with Fedora. One way to overcome … Continue reading →

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How to add static route to your Linux Fedora machine

Posted on December 1, 2008 by admin

To add a default route into your Linux box, route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 10.0.0.1 However, if you only execute this command, the route will disappears if you reboot your system. So, what would be the best way … Continue reading →

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How to find port number

Posted on October 11, 2008 by admin

In our previous post on How to test if a port is open on a server or PC, we have indicated that in TCP/IP networking,  port 25 is used in SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), port 110 is for POP3 … Continue reading →

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