When moving some Sun Solaris servers to a new server room with a new KVM solution (Raritan Paragon 2) we had difficulty getting the Sun servers to display on the KVM. Keyboard seemed to work fine but the display would not. The issue seems to be with the... » More
On my Plesk installation the Horde themes are installed to /usr/share/psa-hordeI downloaded the wps_sober theme. To install it: - extract all the files of the archive to the /usr/share/psa-horde/ directory (Extract files directly to that dir, not to... » More
To determine the Operating System/Distribution version from the command line / terminal interface.How to tell the Ubuntu version?# lsb_release -rRelease: 7.10 How to tell the Slackware version?# more /etc/slackware-versionSlackware 10.2.0... » More
Instructions here for setting up Samba with the Freecom Network Media Player.http://www.lauracowen.co.uk/blog/2008/01/13/setting-up-a-freecom-media-player-with-ubuntu/
From Linux Format magazine. The Sticky Bit:"changes the rules about who can delete files. If the sticky bit is set on a directory, files within it can be deleted only by their owner, the directory's owner or the superuser."
Centos and Red Hat:/etc/sysconfig/networkNETWORKING=yesNETWORKING_IPV6=noHOSTNAME=myhostGATEWAY=123.123.123.1Ubuntu/Debian:/etc/network/interfacesgateway 192.168.1.254Command Line:route add default gw 192.168.1.254
We had a application using version 4 libraries of MySQL to talk to a MySQL 5 database which reported:<br />Error: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL clientThe temporary solution:SET... » More
On Ubuntu/Debian servers install apticron with:apt-get install apticronThis will run a daily job and send an email with available updates. The email address can be amended in/etc/apitcron/apticron.confQuick, easy and useful!
Opera is a great browser - magic wand, mouse gestures and less memory hungry than Firefox. It's also pretty good on the Wii. Install the .deb from www.opera.com/downloadThen to get flash working:sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so... » More
