I need another Red Hat look alike and chose Fedora. My target is Virtual Box on Windows 8.1. So remember, Install from Live CD, reboot yum install dkms binutils gcc make patch libgomp glibc-headers glibc-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel yum update reboot install guest additions, if that fails set & export KERN_DIR, for Fedora it’ll be in…
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Log Rotate and *NIX
This has changed since my days at Pyramid. There has been quite a lot of thinking and engineering about dealing with daemon logs. The places to look are via the syslogd, newsyslog project, you can see a the newsyslog man pages and using the keyword “rotate log”. The idea is that logs are rotated, although…
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Ubuntu 13.10
I am installing this on the Mac under Virtual Box. This snip is about Ubuntu. The first problem is that it comes with quite a bit of crap installed and the Unity search is over zealous and too network noisy. This might be helpful, an article about the first 10 things to do. I seem…
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System V init scripts
I really like Ubuntu’s system V initialisation scripts and features. This is now based on the LSB standard. The Debian Wiki documents how to make an LSB init script here…. This has been replaced by systemd.
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Centos 6.x
I downloaded this from http://centos.mirroring.pulsant.co.uk/6.4/isos/x86_64/ The comments on downloading and installing packages to allow Virtual Box Guest Additions on my Centos 5.3 pages seem to still apply. You need a bunch of non-standard packages and to set a variable to point at the Kernel Source.
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File Transfer
I need to revise file transfer over TCP/IP. This article consists of links on encryption, sftp man pages, restricting shell escapes, sshd, ssh keys, restarts and scp.
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Configuring NTP
I want to configure NTP on this box, i.e. the Cobalt Qube as its losing time. Badly. This was written in 2011 or earlier, and should probably therefore not be used any more.
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Recently I have been working with Open SUSE, this has some interesting and frustrating differences to the Linux versions I am used to. These notes talk about Samba, Services and the Firewall.
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I have been experimenting with an OpenSUSE Linux VM running in Virtual Box.
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Discovering Linux ‘Distro’ Facts
This article documents my version of whatdistro, I needed a User Procedure to report certain distro facts. I wrote a script called showdistro which works on a bunch of distros with varying verboseness. This is now implemented as a function on github : https://github.com/dfl1955/ubuntu-tools/blob/master/dfl1955_functions implemented as whatdistro.
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Amazon Web Services
I created this article in 2011, it was copied across to the wordpress wiki in the summer of 2013, and then amended in November 2013. I returned to it in Feb 2015, to document my adventures with wordpress. In 2017, I wanted to return to VNC/RDP and so came back to this page and I reviewed the…
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Centos 5.3
I installed this on the Mac. I also have Centos 5.9 on the HP Probook. Here are my notes; it’s much easier these days. This was created in Apr 2010.
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LAMP & Ubuntu
This should be easier, but I think made harder because I corrupted my Firefox applications helper list, and then chose the wrong way out My problem, the browser tries to download index.phtml, in retrospect because, I believe that the module wasn’t properly installed into apache. Using Ubuntu 9.04 The Right Way This page, Apache MySQL…
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Centos 4.7
I built a Sun Virtual Box VM based on Centos 4.7. June 2009. This item is now deprecated.
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Making a Yum Repo
While trying to install Redland RDF on my Centos 5.3 VM, I decided to create a local yum repo and use yum. This page holds my notes.
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