How to Set an Hourly Cron in Ubuntu Server
Just a quick reminder to myself as to how to set an hourly cron on an Ubuntu Server instance using the standard Crontab mechanism (use...
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Ubuntu Server: How to Install Applications from .deb Files
October 30, 2014
by Craig Lotter
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It’s pretty seldom that you have to install packages that aren’t part of the official repositories (for which apt-get is king), but every now and...
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Ubuntu Server: How to Extract a .tar.gz Archive File
October 30, 2014
by Craig Lotter
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An old one, but for my own reference purposes, worth noting down here in these pages. In order to extract the contents of a .tar.qz...
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Ubuntu Server 14.04: How to Install Webmin
October 23, 2014
by Craig Lotter
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So you’ve loaded up a copy of Ubuntu Server 14.04 (Trusy Tahr) on your VM, and because you don’t feel like doing everything via the...
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Ubuntu Server: Start Halted Process
July 7, 2014
by Craig Lotter
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My Linux knowledge is rather rusty, so needless to say, I managed to frustrate myself by accidentally halting a running program (VMware Tools installer) by...
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Ubuntu Server: How to Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
July 7, 2014
by Craig Lotter
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Every now and then I need a new SSL certificate for a server, and of course therefore need to produce the relevant certificate signing request...
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XBMCbuntu: Recover from “Error: File Not Found. Grub Rescue” Fail
July 4, 2014
by Craig Lotter
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The problem with running your Media Center PC on the floor next to the television is that your little three year old girl who likes...
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XBMCbuntu: How to Automatically Shutdown your PC
July 3, 2014
by Craig Lotter
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Because XBMCbuntu is essentially a light-weight Ubuntu install configured to run XBMC at startup, you have access to most of the basic commands that a...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04: How to Enable phpMyAdmin
July 1, 2014
by Craig Lotter
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The last little while I’ve slowly been bringing all our servers up to a base level of operating system, in this case Ubuntu Server 12.04...
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Where is the Proxy Setting saved on Ubuntu Server 12.04?
June 25, 2014
by Craig Lotter
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I was having annoying issues on an Ubuntu Server 12.04 which I hadn’t done the original setup of but which I had done the upgrade...
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