If you are new to Linux, chances are you will meet a stupid person perhaps in a forum or chat room that can trick you into using commands that will harm your files or even your entire operating system. To avoid this dangerous scenario from happening, I have here a list of deadly Linux commands […]

If you want to work with zip files in Ubuntu command line interface, you will need these commands: zip and unzip.
Zip
To install zip if you don’t already have it, do this
sudo apt-get install zip
The simplest way to create a zip file (archive) is
zip myzipfile.zip file1 file2 file3 …
Where myzipfile.zip is the file (zip archive) you […]

1. Checking for cacti location and see db setting.
monitor# pwd
/usr/local/share/cacti/include
see setting dbnya.
monitor# cat db-settings.php
<?php
/* make sure these values refect your actual database/host/user/password */
$database_type = “mysql”;
$database_default = “cacti”;
$database_hostname = “localhost”;
$database_username = “cacti”;
$database_password = “cacti”;
$database_port = “3306″;
?>
2. Enter database with information taken from db-settings.php information.
monitor# mysql -ucacti -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end […]