Starting with Ubuntu 15.04, Upstart will be deprecated in favor of Systemd. With Systemd to manage the services we can do the following: systemctl start SERVICE – Use it to start a service. Does not persist after reboot systemctl stop SERVICE – Use it to stop a service. Does not persist after reboot systemctl restart…
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration nJoy 😉
The disk will not automatically resize on many platforms once more disk space was made available. Particularly in Ubuntu 16.04 Rescanning the device for size maps : echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_device/2\:0\:0\:0/device/rescan Then standard procedures to grow the fs apply. nJoy 😉
Hi, Ubuntu does not carry chkconfig any more .. besides the standard update-rc.d apache2 defaults or update-rc.d apache2 remove There is a cool tool called : sysv-rc-conf. This tool can be installed using : sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf On its own the command opens a cool ncurses interface like this : …
To find out what triggered this use : more /var/run/reboot-required.pkgs nJoy 😉
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer nJoy 😉
This was a weird one. It took me ages to discover why SSH X11 died at some point after tuning a box. It so happens that disabling IPv6 ( not used on my networks) is assumed in SSH at some point and if you disable it (which many people say is a way to avoid…
So … At time of writing Latest version can be found here :Â http://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php wget “http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick-6.8.6-9.tar.gz” sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall && sudo apt-get build-dep imagemagick tar xzvf ImageMagick-* cd ImageMagick-6.8.6-9 ./configure –prefix=/opt/imagemagick-6.8 && make
This .htaccess file does the following: Allow SSI lines 1/2/3 Reauire Authenitcation for all outside except those from a particular IP the rest .. Options +Includes    AddType text/html .shtml .html AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml .html AuthType Basic AuthName “Password Required For INGG Monitor” AuthUserFile /var/www/passwords/password.file Require valid-user Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow…
Introduction Postfix is the default Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for Ubuntu. It is in Ubuntu’s main repository, which means that it receives security updates. This guide explains how to install and configure postfix and set it up as an SMTP server using a secure connection. What is a Mail Transfer Agent In other words, it’s a…
