Dec 31, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
Some of us find it easy to work as root access instead of sudo. To permanently enable root access to your Debian/Gnome desktops edit the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file. In [seurity] section Allow root by setting the value to True. Once you’re done with it, you need to...
Dec 28, 2008 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical
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...
Dec 27, 2008 | General, linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
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...
Nov 29, 2008 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
It’s quite easy to get your server added as a Nagios client for monitoring on your centralized Nagios server. You need few nagios packages listed below to be installed on your server first # aptitude install nagios-plugins nagios-nrpe-plugin...
Nov 25, 2008 | General, linux, Product Info, Technical
Today, I forced myself to revisit and reuse Empathy, a simple messaging client for Linux with rich set of widgets. Just because, pidgin has been eating up resources and it was found to be hanging or taking too long to pull in the friends list during which my IM...
Aug 30, 2008 | General, linux, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
If you want to view your Debian/Ubuntu desktop, you need to add the language support for your language via System -> Administration -> Language Support Menu option. Once you’re in-front of language support window, do select the language which you want for...
Aug 29, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Security, Technical
Today I was unable to start apache on one of the VPS servers. Here is the error_log output. [Thu Aug 28 16:45:02 2008] [warn] pid file /var/run/apache2.pid overwritten — Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? [Thu Aug 28 16:45:02 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.3...
Aug 29, 2008 | linux, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
How do I manage my startup scripts? You can do it in Many ways, manually or by using scripts or sysvconfig command. sysvconfig interface in console looks like this : I don’t find chkconfig command in Ubuntu/Debian. How do I add custom scripts to start up? Do I...
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