====== how to stop systemd spamming syslog with messages ======
systemd has a bad habit of spanning the system log with messages every time a user logs in. This is especially annoying on busy systems and/or if using nagios for monitoring it.
To g
* portable (portable software)
* images (system images)
* When setting up a new system, use an imager software like acronis trueimage to make images a... slow
* make another incremental image of your system partition (in case you had some data on your system drive that was not yet moved to the data drive.
ed txt2man, which can run on almost any UN*X-like system, and can convert a flat ASCII text file to the co... nd installed the correct txt2man package for your system, you can get down to the business of creating a m... 1 for my man page. By default, man will look for System Administration commands in section 8 and General ... new man page to the appropriate directory for our system, as specified in the $MANPATH environment variabl
nagios ======
To monitor network traffic on your systems using nagios there is the [[http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/System-Metrics/Networking/check_netio/details|check_neti... n nagios exchange.]]
Here's the setup for debian systems:
===== For all monitores systems =====
Download the [[http://exchange.nagios.org/components/com_mtree/a
will notice that there is a change in the way the system notifies you to upgrade software. In the past, an icon will appear on the system tray whenever there is new update available. In U... in regular interval until you have upgraded your system.
Luckily, you can turn off this pop up feature easily and switch back to the old icon-appear-at-system-tray mode.
===== Using gconf-editor =====
Open
====== Copy a filesystem from one computer to another using tar and netcat ======
If you need to transfer an entire filesystem from one machine to another, for example, when yo... e machine, mount the partition containing the filesystem to be copied, and start the transfer using netcat... n machine, mount the partition to receive the filesystem, and start the process:
cd /mnt/sda1
nc 192.
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NameBench is available for Windows and Mac systems, but most importantly it is Linux compatible.
Prepare your system
Install following package
sudo apt-get inst...
The results are compared to Google’s DNS and the system will compare against your current DNS settings. T
Think of a backuppc username for all your client systems. In the following, i will use CLIENTUSER and CLIENT
On the client systems
- adduser CLIENTUSER
- visudo and add either... NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rsync''
On the backuppc server system:
- ''sudo -s''
- ''su backuppc''
- Copy ssh
can get your country locale information from the system you are using and thus format the numbers (the th... s > Options > International Tab, uncheck the “use system separators” and enter your own.
===== Bugged wi... quite a while to perform the calculations hogging system resources. Of course there is a way to force exce
hat, remove the STARTSTICK and boot into your new system.
Post install work:
* To connect the computer ...
==== noatime ====
By default, the ext3/ext4 filesystem updates the access time attribute on a file system object whenever it's read. This results in even the mo
- find files with a given name and any extension
System Info
date - show the current date and time
cal - ... -i pkg.deb - install a deb package on .deb-based systems
rpm -Uvh pkg.rpm - install an rpm package on .rpm-based systems
Shortcuts
Ctrl+A - move to the start of the lin
====== Copying large files to USB Device blocks system ======
When copying large amounts of data, e.g. digital images to an usb drive, I noticed laggy system behaviour, to the point that the mouse would not ...
vm.dirty_ratio = 10
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I had to reboot the system because ''sudo sysctl -p'' did not reload the val
the fprintd profile manually. Leave the standard system profiles (Unix, Keyring and ConsoleKit) enabled as well.
6. Go to System > Preferences > About Me and in the top-right cor
dows xp or windows 7 ======
Start an ubuntu live system
Locate your linux partition
fdisk -l
Lets ass... root-directory=/mnt/sda1 /dev/sda
boot into your system and update the menu
sudo update-grub
Ref: http
he maple start file (/opt/maple12/bin/maple on my system). Locate your system type (bin.X86_64 in my case) and change the java jre variable:
<code>
"bin.X86_64_L
