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Changing the Hostname in Ubuntu Server 16.04: Unit hostname.service is masked

October 3, 2017

by Craig Lotter

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For older versions of Ubuntu, many of the tutorials online show you how to edit your server’s hostname by simply editing /etc/hostname and then restarting...

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Ubuntu Server: How to change or set the Timezone

September 29, 2017

by Craig Lotter

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Dropping this as a quick reminder to myself. When confronted with a new Ubuntu server instance, I can check the currently set time zone by...

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Simple way to Backup Files from an Ubuntu Server to Amazon S3 Cloud

May 17, 2016

by Craig Lotter

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You can never have too many backups, and this is a simple way of backing up files from an Ubuntu server to the Amazon S3...

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How to Solve the “linux-server : Depends: linux-image-server” apt-get upgrade Error

February 19, 2016

by Craig Lotter

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After cleaning out an unexpected /boot full fault on one of the Ubuntu servers that I maintain, I next encountered an equally frustrating problem whereby...

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How to Solve Ubuntu Server /boot full Issue

February 19, 2016

by Craig Lotter

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If you manage an older Ubuntu server and do a lot of updates/upgrades, inevitably you’ll hit the annoying /boot full issue, which is essentially what...

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Ubuntu Server: Quick method to reset MySQL root user Password

July 9, 2015

by Craig Lotter

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The chance of remembering your MySQL root user account password when coming back to an Ubuntu server after a long period of time is pretty...

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Ubuntu Server: Add User to Sudo Group

July 6, 2015

by Craig Lotter

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Using Ubuntu server, how does one add an existing user to the sudo group (which is the “administrators” group in Ubuntu), thus granting that user...

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How to Solve: a2ensite “Error, Site does not exist!”

July 4, 2015

by Craig Lotter

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To enable a virtual vhost website on your Ubuntu Server running Apache, you need to first create a vhost configuration file (just copy 000-defaul.conf as...

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