• Metalog is an easily configurable system logger daemon which can be substituted for standard syslogd and klogd. It has one limitation though, that you cannot log to remote machines. It’s very easy to configure Nginx to use Syslog (Metalog, in my case). All you need to do is compile nginx [...]

  • Linux has a in built timezone converter and I have been using various web services ever since. Timezone is controlled by the TZ environment variable and you can set it to the desired timezone before executing a command, which will make the command think that you are in that particular [...]

  • Roboto font comes from Android and Google designed it really well. It looks awesome on desktops and laptops. But getting it working as a default system font in Linux is quite a task because the font package of Roboto available has multiple font forms declaring same type of text style. [...]

  • NFS cannot allocate memory seems to be common issue a lot of people face while mounting NFSv4 shares, as revealed from search results on Google. Even I faced it when trying to mount a NFS share exported from my desktop on my Raspberry Pi. It didn’t give the error on [...]

  • Many of us have multiple ISP uplinks for different reasons like reliability, download limit, etc. but there is no clear guide [at least, I couldn’t find any] on routing for multiple links. I came across the same problem — I got a new fiber connection, but it is a capped [...]