Tag: Ubuntu
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Uptime , SLA’s, and the Nines
Uptime Uptime is the amount of time a server has been in continuous proper operation without needing a reboot. When I was working a nine to five and managing datacenters, servers, and networks, a quick and easy way to determine a servers health was to check it’s “uptime”. In fact I setup my command line…
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AIDE – Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment HowTo – Ubuntu Linux
AIDE is an advanced intrusion detection environment software which monitors changes in your files and/or filesystem/s. AIDE let’s you know if a file has been accessed, changed, or modified (atime, ctime, or mtime, for the Unix geeks) and alerts you to the fact providing a report which by default is mailed to your root user.…
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New Chat System @ Zettabytes.Org – Minnit Chat Integration
We have been testing some various chat sub-systems, clients, servers as well as WordPress native chat sub-systems and have settled on one for the moment for our https://azure.zettabytes.org blog and web site. WordPress is the content management system (CMS) that is the backbone of the web site and this new chat sub-system integrates into the…
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Installing PHP on Ubuntu 20.04
You’re going to like this one. So do you just want the damn command so you can move on without having to read more than this sentence? M’Kay, here ya go: What? you can’t read that? Maybe you have some off colors or something in your html CSS w3 #ZXXI03 thingamajiggy. Just kidding lol. There’s…
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Apache 2 on Ubuntu 20.04 + 30 Second SSL Configuration
The version of Ubuntu that I use is 20.04 LTS however most of these instructions will pertain to just about all Ubuntu Linux versions. Yes, there are thousands of these tutorials on the web and this could be a one line article: apt install apache2 Even though that is correct, will 100% work, and will…
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Apache 2 on Ubuntu 20.04 + 30 Second SSL Configuration
The version of Ubuntu that I use is 20.04 LTS however most of these instructions will pertain to just about all Ubuntu Linux versions. Yes, there are thousands of these tutorials on the web and this could be a one line article: apt install apache2 Even though that is correct, will 100% work, and will…
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Installing MySQL on Ubuntu Linux 20.04
So you wanna install MySQL server on your Ubuntu Linux 20.04 box right? No problem, another super duper easy install: apt install mysql-server That will install the latest version in the Ubuntu repositories, that being 8.0.2. IIRC the version numbering has changed and went from 5.7 to the new 8.x.x version numbering system. This has prompted some in the industry to get paranoid with Oracle as MySQL versions are closing…
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Installed Ubuntu 20.04 on My 2011 MacBook Pro8,2 – Ubuntu ONLY, NO OSX – Tested, Complete
Reprinted from https://linux.linuxconnector.com, another one of my sites. One of the computers I have on my desk is an older MacBook Pro. To be specific, it’s a 2011 MacBook Pro with a an Intel i7 processor running at 2 gigahertz (8 cores, 2 threads, 4 processors? I forgot that last thing). This machine has a…
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cowsay and lolcat – more Ubuntu shell commands
If you read my article about fortune, I mention cowsay and lolcat towards the end of that article. I decided to write another article that expands on cowsay and lolcat usage. A lot of my time working and playing is spent inside or looking at screenfuls of ssh shell sessions. cowsay and lolcat are small…
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fortune – Unix/Linux Shell Goody
“You are WRONG, you ol’ brass-breasted fascist poop!” — Bloom County (fortune) fortune is a little program that I install on just about every single Unix/Linux box I administrate. It’s not a tool, it’s not a game and it’s not a backdoor or any other program or subsystem to make your life easier or make…