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.

Some Linux/Unix Security Guidelines

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux distributions, Uncategorized

Unix security  is  a big world including Software  and  hardware, there is no  guaranties to  make your  Unix system safe,  but you can make it very difficult for  the Crackers en Hackers; in this quick guide will show  you  some  … Continue reading

Script to Install and Secure Apache2 PHP5 MySQL5 in Ubuntu/Debian

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux distributions, Linux Mint, Ubuntu

In this quick post will  show you how  to install fast en secure lamp in Ubuntu and Debian via this small script.

What are the sendmail configuration files?

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions, Linux distributions

Question: what are the sendmail configuration files  ?

Install and Configure Samba share in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail , 12.10, 12.04| Howto

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

Updated 05-04-2013: One of the most asked features for Samba is a graphical user interface to help with configuration and management,  there are several GUI interfaces to Samba available, for me the most  simple and powerful one of these tools … Continue reading

Solved – PHP Warning: Module 'PDO' already loaded in Unknown on line 0.

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question : I got this error  Log in CMS  (Joomla  and  WordPress) : PHP Warning: Module ‘PDO’ already loaded in Unknown on line 0.

How to switch between runlevels in Fedora 16 ?

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in CentOS, Fedora, Frequently Asked Questions, Linux tutorials, Uncategorized

How  to  switch  between runlevels  in Fedora 16 ?

Howto- Disable SELinux on Fedora/Centos/RHEL/SL

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in CentOS, Fedora, Frequently Asked Questions

 Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux feature that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, through the use of Linux Security Modules (LSM) in the Linux kernel. It is a set of Kernel modifications and user-space tools that … Continue reading

How to Backup and Restore MySQL Database on Fedora16, Centos and Redhat

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in CentOS, Fedora, Linux tutorials

The mysqldump client is a backup program originally written by Igor Romanenko. It can be used to dump a database or a collection of databases for backup or transfer to another SQL server (not necessarily a MySQL server). The dump … Continue reading

Fedora- Google Earth has caught signal 11. | Solved

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Fedora, Frequently Asked Questions, Linux distributions

Question : Google earth  is  crashing in Fedora when starting, it gives  this error: Google Earth has caught signal 11.   , How  to   solve this.  ?

postgresql-bin/systemctl initdb postgresql.service Unknown operation initdb | Solved

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Fedora, Frequently Asked Questions

Question : I get this error when starting postgresql server on fedora 16