Author Archives: Mel Kham

About Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

How to install nagios in RHEL|Centos|Fedora

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

Nagios is the industry standard in enterprise-class monitoring for good reason. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It’s stable, scalable, supported, and extensible.

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Firefox: “Could not find compatible GRE”

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question : Firefox: “Could not find compatible GRE” 

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Sharing printer on Ubuntu Linux with Windows

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials, Ubuntu

Updated 26-04-2013: Got Ubuntu Linux server to share it’s printer with Windows XP. After setting up samba (i.e. installing the samba package) and getting it to a state where the server PC appeared in the workgroup (make sure workgroup has … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to centos 5.3

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in CentOS

CentOS Team just anounced the avaibility of CentOS 5.3 ,  Major changes in CentOS 5.3 compared to CentOS 4 include: this

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Uninstall Gnome and Office

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question :   If you have a server there is no need of the GUI interface, is there?  Answer : A good linux admin will never need it. So I am removing it, here are the commands:

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HowTo Instal Nessus on Debian

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

Nessus is one of the best security auditing tool out there, it has been developed by Tenable Network Security.

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How to remove directory from $PATH

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question :How to remove directory from $PATH

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How to reinstall Grub in linux

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

This short Totorial shows you the snelest way to reinstall Grub

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Setup a transparent proxy with Squid in three easy steps

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

i) System: HP dual Xeon CPU system with 8 GB RAM (good for squid). ii) Eth0: IP:192.168.1.1 iii) Eth1: IP: 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.0/24 network (around 150 windows XP systems)) iv) OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (Following instruction should work with … Continue reading →

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Debian Lenny ATI HD 3450 AGP Ati proprietary drivers

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Hardware Linux

This guide will show you how to install on Debian Lenny proprietary drivers for ATI HD 3450 AGP Ati The packaging scripts for Catalyst drivers 9.1 and 9.2 seem to be broken on Debian Lenny, and as of 9.2, Debian … Continue reading →

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