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How To Install and Configure OpenNTPd on FreeBSD 10.2 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure OpenNTPd on FreeBSD 10.2

NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is a standardized protocol providing ways to synchronize time on various operating systems. OpenNTPd is a free and easy-to-use implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), originally developed as part of the OpenBSD project. It provides the ability to sync the local clock from remote NTP servers and can also act as server itself.

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How To Install and Secure the Mosquitto MQTT Messaging Broker on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure the Mosquitto MQTT Messaging Broker on CentOS 7

MQTT is a machine-to-machine messaging protocol, designed to provide lightweight publish/subscribe communication to “Internet of Things” devices. Mosquitto is a popular MQTT server (or broker, in MQTT parlance) that has great community support and is easy to install and configure. In this tutorial, we’ll install Mosquitto, retrieve SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt, and set up our broker to use SSL to secure our password-protected MQTT communications.

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How To Install Dropbox Client as a Service on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Dropbox Client as a Service on Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install the Dropbox client, and configure it to run as a headless service, on an Ubuntu 14.04 server. This will allow your server to connect to Dropbox so that you can keep a copy of your Dropbox files synchronized in the home directory on your server.

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Lesen und Einrichten von Umgebungs- und Shell-Variablen unter Linux — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Lesen und Einrichten von Umgebungs- und Shell-Variablen unter Linux

In Linux-Systemen werden Umgebungs- und Shell-Variablen verwendet, um Betriebsbedingungen für die Shell zu bestimmen. Sie können an untergeordnete Prozesse übergeben und verwendet werden, um Optionen festzulegen und bestimmte Informationen für Prozesse verfügbar zu machen, die in der Sitzung gestartet werden. In diesem Leitfaden werden wir über das Lesen, Ändern, Erstellen und Zerstören von Umgebungs- und Shell-Variablen sprechen.

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How to Connect Your Internet of Things with Node-RED on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Connect Your Internet of Things with Node-RED on Ubuntu 16.04

Node-RED is a switchboard for the Internet of Things, a visual tool that helps you connect your favorite apps, websites, and hardware together to do new and useful things. Node-RED has a powerful and flexible interface, and a large open source community creating *nodes* to interact with a wide variety of apps and services. In this tutorial, we’ll install Node.js and Node-RED, get an SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt, and use Nginx to handle secure connections for Node-RED.

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How To Install and Configure Sphinx on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure Sphinx on CentOS 7

Sphinx is an open source search engine that allows full-text searches. It is best known for performing searches over large data very efficiently. The data to be indexed can generally come from very different sources: SQL databases, plain text files, HTML files, mailboxes, and so on. In this tutorial, we will set up Sphinx with MySQL server using the sample SQL file included in the distribution package.

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