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My debian days…

My debian days…

I had dedicated few days of past few weeks for Debian in search of stable, secure and reliable solutions.  With Debian, I ended up finding robust solutions for lots of questions which we had while setting up LAN resources. Debian net install CD which weighed...

Enabling root access for Kubuntu

While we tried adding our desktops to NIS + NFS servers, we needed an account on local system which will enable us to make further modifications to configuration during network failure. Hence we needed root access for Kubuntu systems. By default root access is...

Setting GRUB password

If you don’t want any one to access your system without permission, you should confirm that you don’t have recovery mode enabled in GRUB boot loader or it must be password protected. Otherwise any one can get into root console as and change the password to...

Set email alerts for cron jobs

After scheduling the cron jobs, its important to ensure that they are running without any errors.  In such cases it’s important to set email alerts for crontab. To set email alert for your cron jobs; Edit the crontab entry: $ crontab -e and enter the email...

Redirect HTTP request to HTTPS

To redirect http requests to https on your Apache web server use .htaccess and add the following rewrite rules. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond     %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$ RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L] You can also add it inside the...