This is a short but potentially extremely handy guide to ghosting one Linux box to another (or simply making a full backup of a desktop/server). Credit goes to ‘topdog’ for this.

You might have a small office where you customise one desktop just how you like it and need to roll this out to N other PC’s or simply want a backup of a server or desktop to another machine or even to an image file.
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Hi guys, seems like it’s been sometime since the previous how-to guide for horde webmail, since I see someone needing help, I might as well post how I did it

This is only tested on CENTOS 4.2
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I’ve  never got to grips with using ‘vi’ to edit files from the command line. So one of the first things I need to do is configure the nano/pico text editor so I can properly edit and save out files. Here’s a nice and simple howto get nano running on a FreeBSD server.

Sudo to root and then execute the following command:

1. cd /usr/ports/editors/nano && make install clean

Thats it.

If you have people who can’t stop themselves typing ‘pico’ to bring up the text editor then you can symlink to the new nano binary as follows:

1. ln -s /usr/local/bin/nano /usr/local/bin/pico
2. rehash
3. pico

Job done!

This comes up in discussions almost every new project I work on, because it’s a very important thing to consider when designing a database.

When deciding when and how to create an index in your MySQL database, it’s important to consider how the data is being used.
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